Blizzard responds to extended maintenance and instance problems

Posted by noyabrina on 07 27th, 2009

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Blizzard EU has released a long and detailed statement concerning the recent waves of extended maintenance and how it’s connected to the problems associated with launching instances. For several months players have been plagued with the message “Additional instances cannot be launched.” The message was being caused by overloaded instance servers, and for a long time there was seemingly nothing Blizzard could do about it. Blizzard’s statement today clearly informs us that all the extended maintenance we’ve been seeing is directly due Blizzard implementing fixes for the problems server-side. While the statement comes from an EU source, once can assume rather easily that it applies to the US as well. While no timeframe is given as to exactly when this will be done for all realms, it is very good to know that stuff is getting done behind the scenes. And this look at exactly what Blizzard is doing to their servers represents a rare glimpse into their inner workings. Usually Blizzard is pretty tight lipped about what exactly is happening with their hardware. The full statement after the break. Continue reading Blizzard responds to extended maintenance and instance problems Filed under: Realm News , Realm Status , Blizzard , News items , Instances Blizzard responds to extended maintenance and instance problems originally appeared on WoW.com on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read