Final Update: 31-Hour Maintenance Has Concluded - The Burning Crusade Anniversary Pre-Patch Now Live

Posted 2026/01/13 at 2:47 PM by PopularTopular

Maintenance has concluded and The Burning Crusade Anniversary Pre-Patch is now live!Tom Ellis

Tom Ellis

Real talk, yeah, it's been a long ass day, appreciate you are all chomping at the bit to get in so thanks for sticking with us. What the hell is going on? So many small things gobbling up time is the honest answer.

With these sort of new environment deploys, we would normally have the environment up and running hidden weeks if not months ahead of a launch. The process we had to go through for this one, that whole utilizing Classic Eras database thing, meant we couldn't get this environment up running as we normally would while the realms were still active in Era.

Now, we're dealing with a ton of small config and infrastructure type issues that we'd normally have ironed out over days/weeks getting things ready ahead of time and it is draining AF to be quite honest!

Your characters are fine, and we will get this bastard out the door at some point.

We fired Dave.

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Comment by SalvestaLOLComment by Yeppclassic.Comment by DemaruhExplain to me like I'm 5 and you don't hate kids: How do you need over 24 hours to implement a game patch you have done 2 other times before, with 1 of those times being less than 10 years ago?Comment by Thoreyajust insane at this point lolComment by Maikelv89Explain to me like I'm 5 and you don't hate kids: How do you need over 24 hours to implement a game patch you have done 2 other times before, with 1 of those times being less than 10 years ago?https://www.wowhead.com/classic/news/the-reason-for-24-hour-maintenance-ahead-of-the-burning-crusade-pre-patch-379904Comment by Redhawk95LComment by DemaruhExplain to me like I'm 5 and you don't hate kids: How do you need over 24 hours to implement a game patch you have done 2 other times before, with 1 of those times being less than 10 years ago?https://www.wowhead.com/classic/news/the-reason-for-24-hour-maintenance-ahead-of-the-burning-crusade-pre-patch-379904Comment by Ehdmaierok, so i want a 1 day off refoundComment by XannadulExplain to me like I'm 5 and you don't hate kids: How do you need over 24 hours to implement a game patch you have done 2 other times before, with 1 of those times being less than 10 years ago?Comment by Russano"We've known that we've had to do this complicated back-end work for awhile, so are choosing to complete it at the latest possible moment so that it coincides with most anticipated patch of Anniversary to-date. Sorry, there's just no possible way that this work could've been done in advance. Have a nice day :^)"

- BlizzardComment by NumenYou had the whole day gang there's no excuse this timeComment by DemaruhExplain to me like I'm 5 and you don't hate kids: How do you need over 24 hours to implement a game patch you have done 2 other times before, with 1 of those times being less than 10 years ago?Comment by SilenderYou are NOT prepared!Comment by AlexWaff"We've known that we've had to do this complicated back-end work for awhile, so are choosing to complete it at the latest possible moment so that it coincides with most anticipated patch of Anniversary to-date. Sorry, there's just no possible way that this work could've been done in advance. Have a nice day :^)"

- BlizzardComment by Dogmarxwow so happy i happened to have today off, what can possibly go wrong?Comment by ArudebaranA 27-hour patch for something they're supposed to already be handling, Blizzard being BlizzardComment by Leiriacalm down it's for US servers onlyComment by PandeyThats a low point, even for Blizzard. New 27h maintenance meme incoming.Comment by MadaucI doubt only 3 more hours will do it at this point.Comment by pbwiththebbExplain to me like I'm 5 and you don't hate kids: How do you need over 24 hours to implement a game patch you have done 2 other times before, with 1 of those times being less than 10 years ago?It's already been explained you just don't have the ability to pay attention to detail.

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