The World of Warcraft Oceanic realms go down at 21:00 AEST. That's when all the realms come down, but the thing that some players are complaining about is that it happens during Oceanic prime time. Europe and Asia have their own unique maintenance time slots, so why can't Oceania have its own, too?

Blizzard poster Tseric says that one of the larger reasons for this is that the Oceanic realms "are not separate from other realms in so far as the maintenance procedures are concerned. They are integrated with other realms, so maintenance must be done for all realms in a given group."

As for the recent separate Oceanic maintenance, that was apparently a one-off. "Our recently stated realm maintenance schedule is what we are running with," posted Tseric. "I have not heard any word that we will be changing this to accommodate what you've outlined here."