Realm Maintenance – 01/12/2010

Good morrrrrrning, CSF! Welcome to a glorious Tuesday morning and maintenance day!

From our Service Status Forum:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22418854886&sid=1

Q u o t e:
Greetings!

We are performing our weekly scheduled maintenance next Tuesday, 01/12/2010, beginning at 5:00 AM PST. No realms will be available for play approximately between the hours of 5:00 AM and 11:00 AM PST.

Thank you for your patience.

Other web services may also be unavailable during this time.



As always, I highly recommend you use this time to perform any needed maintenance of your own systems to prepare for the week to come! This includes making sure your OS, scanning software, Flash, and Adobe programs are totally up-to-date.

I'd also recommend, when running your scans, to keep the WoW launcher open and to type in a few numbers and letters into the account name and password fields. We've seen some malware pop up recently that will not appear on antivirus or anti-spyware scans unless the launcher is active.


Tuesday Recommended Reading List:

Computer Security Recommendations
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=1778038509&sid=1

Fake Emails From "Blizzard"
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=965511383&sid=1

Add an Authenticator, Adopt a Core Hound
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=22048397570&sid=1

Why the Downtime Every Tuesday?
https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=89429867&sid=1

As a reminder, all time frames listed in this thread, the Service Status Forum, and Breaking News are estimated and noted in PST (Pacific Standard Time). If you do not live on the west coast of North America, please be sure to make the appropriate adjustments based on your local time zone! Here's a quick list for reference:

HST = PST - 2 hours
MST = PST + 1 hour
CST = PST + 2 hours
EST = PST + 3 hours
AST = PST + 4 hours
Newfoundland = PST + 4.5 hours
GMT = PST + 8 hours
AEDT = PST + 19 hours

If your local time zone isn't noted, please feel free to use one of the many time zone converters available online (just type "time zone converter" into a search engine like Google and you'll be set). :)

Let's tone it down a notch, folks. ;)

Realms are slowly starting to come online at this time. Please note that this is a staggered process and that not all realms may be immediately available. :)

Kapowder, we perform this dance weekly. If you'd like to formally provide feedback—that is, if you'd like it to have an appropriate impact—please email wowgmfeedback-us@blizzard.com.

With this, if you believe a post is inappropriate, please click the red "biohazard" button. We scan threads regularly for violations, but it's possible for some violations to be missed. The biohazard reports help us identify and remove such violations with greater efficiency. :)

All realms should now be online and accepting players.

Q u o t e:
Azuremyst?

Already lookin' into it. :)