Free to play games that cost nothing like Genshin, Honkai Star Rail, and many others compensate you for time the game is down for maintenance. World of Warcraft is run by a billion dollar gaming oligopoly, costs $15 a month, full of insane microtransactions… and they can’t possibly get maintenance done in less than 9 hours ??? But also, no compensation at all, truly astounding to me
Because wow subscribers keep paying no matter what Blizzard does?
I mean, why offer anyone anything if they’re going to pay you regardless.
A F2P gatcha game is a little less sticky, so the maintenance compensation are part compensation and part marketing: it’s another reason for you to come back and play more.