u/RoyalSwedishCoin

I looked this up, and for a major MMORPG, around 99 - 99.5% uptime is a reasonable benchmark for a well-maintained live service game. It depends on whether you count scheduled maintenance, emergency patches, and unexpected outages. So I went with whats reported.

But, 99.9%+ uptime is a good benchmark for a mature MMO, even when counting ordinary maintenance.

Examples:

WoW EU:

Last 90-Days:

• Weekly maintenance: Around 1 hour
• Up time 99.93%
• https://kid.gg/status/wow

EVE Online:

• Scheduled downtime: a few minutes daily
• Reported uptime: 99.98% (August 2026)
• https://status.eveonline.com/uptime

Guild Wars 2:

• Reported uptime: 99.98% over a 14-month period
• https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/news/inside-arenanet-live-game-outage-analysis/

Obviously, these numbers aren't perfectly comparable because of how the measurements are made but still, 96.2% uptime is abysmally bad for a major, established MMORPG like Albion Online.