It seems that every week Blizzard has this issue where some players have trouble logging into the game, we may seelong delays at the Authenticating, Handshaking or Connecting stages.

More often than not, it happens on a monday or tuesday my time, just before the weekly mainenance, which makes me wonder what would happen if they skipped the maintenance one week.

I get the feeling that perhaps the whole game would fall over.
Doesn’t that sound less like maintenance and more like planned emergency repairs?

Blizzard takes in approximately Sixty Million US dollars each month from subscriptions. I would expect they would realise it is in the their best interests to work out what causes the servers to fall over like this and do something about it.

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