When an online game goes offline for maintenance, what are they doing? - eviltoast

I can understand patch updates, but what else are the devs doing?

  • squiblet@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The servers run on regular operating systems. They might wish to back up the storage (and databases), update the OS, or update their game server software, all of which is a lot easier if the service is stopped.