News Roundup UPDATED

Today (November 16) has extended maintenance, probably for them to add Patch 4.0.3 and all its changes in preparation for next week's The Shattering patch (4.0.3a).
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/16/tuesday-morning-post-elemental-extended-maintenance-edition/

A bit about Patch 4.0.3
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/16/4-0-3-released-no-patch-notes-no-game-changes-yet/

http://www.wowhead.com/blog=173983

Amazon is throwing in Burning Crusade free if you buy WOW.  This is a limited offer, just good during the day after Thanksgiving "Black Friday" sales.  Details here.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/15/pre-black-friday-amazon-offering-burning-crusade-free-with-wow/

Blizzard is giving 7 free days of game play to folks who have unsubscribed.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/15/blizzard-giving-7-days-of-free-play-to-lapsed-accounts/

Part four of the Elemental Invasion is live.
http://www.wowhead.com/blog=173902

The old forums are going read-only November 17.  Blizzard is opening the new forums.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/16/official-wow-forums-going-read-only-on-wednesday-new-community/

UPDATE:  Blizzard has released a preview of another new area, Tol Barad.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/16/blizzard-releases-new-cataclysm-preview-tol-barad/

UPDATE #2: Patch 4.0.3a is up on the public test realm.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/11/17/patch-4-0-3a-the-shattering-is-up-on-the-ptr/

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Login Server and BlizzCon Shipping Issues

There were login server issues last night, with many people unable to log in.  Battle.net was taken down for maintenance to fix the problem.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/28/login-server-issues-this-evening/

In an unrelated issue, there's been a blue posting on the forums that pre-sale items from BlizzCon have run into a two week shipping delay.   Everything that was ordered before the Oct. 22-23 convention should ship by November 3.
http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/10/28/bashiok-announces-blizzcon-pre-sale-shipping-delays/

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Rolling Restarts and Regular Downtime

A few realms (listed below) will have regular maintenance today.  Everyone else has rolling restarts.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?sid=1&topicId=26850260203

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24 Hour Maintenance Announced for August 17

Some realms will be down for 24 hours at least next Tuesday; others will hve regular maintenance downtime.  The list is here-
http://www.wow.com/2010/08/14/24-hour-maintenance-announced-for-more-realms/

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Extended Maintenance For ALL Realms Tomorrow

The list of realms that will have 24 hour+ maintenance downtime is here.  No word on how long other realms will be down.
http://www.wow.com/2010/07/19/24-hour-maintenance-for-select-servers-on-tuesday/#continued

UPDATE;  All realms apparently are still down until 6 p.m. PDT due to problems with the authenticator server.  Can't log in until this is fixed.

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Very Extended Maintenance Next Tuesday

Next Tuesday more US realms will be down for 24 hours.  The list is here.
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/26/early-maintenance-announcement-includes-24-hour-downtime-for-sel/#continued

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24 Downtime Next Tuesday--A Trend?

WOW Insider reports that tomorrow's downtime will stretch to 24 hours for some unlucky U.S. realms as they are made "Cataclysm-ready." The list of effected servers is here.
http://www.wow.com/2010/06/06/24-hour-downtime-this-tuesday-for-72-servers-to-make-them-catacl/

I would presume everyone will undergo 24 hours of maintenance evntually as Blizzard tries to get ready for their next expansion.

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Extended Maintainence and Patch 3.3.3

The rumor mill says Patch 3.3.3 will hit today.  Maintenance is extended, starting earlier but ending at the usual 2 p.m. EDT.
http://www.wow.com/2010/03/22/realm-maintenance-for-tuesday-march-23rd/

Details from Blizzard about what Patch 3.3.3 contains (from the public test realms).
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

By the way, Arioch of Clearcasting thinks patch numbers are starting to sound like star dates in Star Trek.  LOL

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Tuesday Maintenance Downtime

WOW Insider reports that Blizzard did some in-game fixes yesterday, January 4,
http://www.wow.com/2010/01/04/in-game-fixes-for-january-4th-2010/

and plans extended maintenance for today, Tuesday, January 5 (or Wednesday if you are on a European server).  WOW Insider also expects that the newest section of Icecrown Citadel (the Plagueworks ) will be opened after the maintenance is over and everything stable.
http://www.wow.com/2010/01/04/realm-maintenance-for-january-4th/

Hopefully, major Patch 3.3 bugs like the Elemental Shaman Tier 10 bug will be fixed by the end of today.
http://www.wow.com/2010/01/04/elemental-shaman-tier-10-bug-causes-7-day-lockout/

Here's a list of the bugs that were fixed.
http://www.wow.com/2010/01/05/in-game-changes-for-january-5th-2010/#continued

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Extended Maintenance Tuesday UPDATED

http://www.wow.com/2009/09/07/maintenance-for-tuesday-september-8th/

UPDATE:  Now folks are seeing logging into game errors the day after this maintenance.
http://www.wow.com/2009/09/08/widespread-logging-in-to-game-server-error/

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Extended Maintenance Realms List

Blizzard has posted a list of realms that are undergoing extended maintenance today. Apparently this is to fix the long waits into instances.
http://launcher.worldofwarcraft.com/alert

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