Reminder: Security Maintenance on Jan 20

This notification was posted on the login screen and the Network News page last week, but just to remind you, tomorrow we will be completing security maintenance on January 20.

Excerpt from the Network News page:

Got off tomorrow as well, ganna have to find something else to do lol. Hope the maintenance goes well though.

So, from 8 oclock in the morning (GMT) to midnight(GMT), guild wars is going to be down, or just from 8 in the morning till midday (12PM).

Just checking if its a typo or not .

hmmmm...dun remember the last time gw ever got downtime for server maintenance
actually i dun remember gettin maintenance at all ever 0__o

but if they usually happen around this time...its prolly cuz thats when im asleep lol

ZoMg a Community person of Anet online 0.o

Please poke me, i most be sleeping.

*on topic*
I work at those hours any ways.

the mods might want to add this to the news.
If not, I pretty sure we'll be flooded by "OMG, I can't login anymore"-messages tomorrow

Or not and have some fun and post a fictitious article about massive account bans by Anet for hacking, buying/selling gold etc.. on the 20th instead.

Tbh i hope it improves the latency issues. But we'll see.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!! lol, oh well...

actually am wandering whats the different of a security maintenance vs a normal one?

and thanks for the reminder Ms Regina.

I think there was a typo in the PST time, because GMT times seem allright:

12:00 am PST (8:00 am GMT) to 4:00 pm PST (12:00 am GMT)

Security maintenance means applying security patches, or upgrading an application, or a whole Operating System, while "normal" maintenance generally implies less critical modifications (some don't require shutting down the computers).

Honestly, very impressive maintenance perfs, I wish you smooth operations.

Thanks for the reminder, Regina. I work until 5:00 CST, servers should go back up around 6:00. Gah I guess I'll... go work out?

That puzzled me as well. Is it a 4 hours or 16 hours downtime?

12:00am-4:00am, how is there any confusion?

What? The note says 8am to 12am GMT, and since 12am is midnight, do the math.

perhaps they are gonna implement some stuff related to GW2. here's hoping

They already said they'd only be applying major game content updates every 4 months (April is next).

Every 4 months?

I just thought this was a random big one.

Can you post a link to that please Icy?

Edit, found it.

Miss Buenaobra misquoted the times in the opening post. Clicking on the Network News Page reveals that the correct times are as follows:


So it will be an estimated four hour downtime during twilight hours that shouldn't really inconvenience many people on PST.


And here is the Link concerning the proposed triannual content updates

The time needs to be fixed. Midnight (12:00am PST) to 4:00am PST is four hours.

In this case, it should also read 8:00am GMT to 12:00pm GMT, not 12:00am. 12am = midnight and 12pm = noon.

Concise: It's for four hours. Don't worry.

It's the whole Tuesday for most of Europe (8 in the morning till midnight). The network page has some more: