14 DAY TRIAL // Great news for all you World of Warcraft fans! I know you were about to slash your wrists thinking that another Tuesday with World of Warcraft downtime will be here. No need for that now, because 1up.com reports that this Tuesday, the 26th of December, will not see WoW servers downtime. So, this means more for some PvP action.
Here is what Blue Poster, a Blizzard employee, has to say about the downtime: "Since the game's release, one of our most important service goals has been to reduce the amount of time realms are down for weekly realm maintenance. The various hardware upgrades and retrofits we've done over the past year have put us in a position to begin testing the ability to go longer than a week between maintenance periods. In the upcoming weeks, we will be testing the effect of a live maintenance, where regular maintenance tasks are run during off-peak with realms live. On Tuesday, December 26 there will be no scheduled downtime for weekly maintenance. We will perform all necessary maintenance tasks while the realms are live. We are anticipating the possibility that we may need to perform rolling restarts off-peak if we find that a realm restart is necessary; however the downtime for each realm would be less than 10 minutes if it was required."
The short version of what Blue Poster says is something like this: bla, bla, bla, no downtime, but there is the possibility of a realm restart (some 10 minutes will be needed). This is a smart move on behalf of Blizzard considering that WoW servers will be full today, because most gamers are off for the holidays. Many Word of Warcraft freaks would have been in excruciating pain, free time and nowhere to play WoW.