Realtime Worlds grows its operations team, working on reducing MMO downtimes

Anyone who's played an MMO for a month or so will be familiar with weekly maintenance -- that wonderful time of the week when we have to do something else other than that play our favorite game. According to gamesindustry.biz, Realtime Worlds (developer of All Points Bulletin) has recently made some operations additions by way of Patrick Bays as manager of game operations and Will Leverett as director of customer service. Both men have worked at Origin Systems and NCsoft in the past, although also had a stint with Turbine as well.

This is important because Bays is looking to completely remove the weekly maintenance every other MMO suffers from. "As a gamer myself, I don't find six or eight hours downtime every week acceptable, so our system will allow our players to enjoy our games round the clock." said Bays. Of course, both Bays and Leverett have plenty of experience in the MMO industry -- so hopefully this isn't just talk.

Hopefully we'll find out soon, even though All Points Bulletin has yet to announce a publisher or any kind of launch window. Although if we have to, we'll make a few sacrifices in order to see this game become a reality.