The Black Desert Online servers will be going offline temporarily today, August 16, 2023, for maintenance as Pearl Abyss is looking to further improve its services on the MMORPG and patch in the latest updates. The maintenance is expected to last for around four hours across all the regions, and irrespective of the server that the player is on, the title will be unavailable during this period.
As the servers will be taken down, those who were inside the game at the time will be automatically kicked out, and they will not be able to log back in till maintenance is done. Along with this, the Web Central Market will also be temporarily unavailable.
Below are all the details you need about Black Desert Online’s August 16 (Wednesday) server downtime and maintenance schedule.
As mentioned, the Black Desert Online servers will go down today for approximately four hours. Here is the period for which the MMORPG will be unavailable for all the regions:
However, the downtime period is subject to change, and it may take longer for the servers to come back up, depending on how well the maintenance has gone for the developer. If there are issues, Pearl Abyss will inform players, and they might just have to wait it out a couple of hours longer.
Along with the BDO servers, the website will also be unavailable for a couple of hours, and players will not be able to access it for the following period:
This period too is subject to change.
The server maintenance period will be followed by a minor update, which will have the following patch highlights:
Here are all the events that will be made unavailable after today’s update:
For the period that the servers are down, players will be able to catch the “Maintenance Stream With Endlaive,” where the show will be going over some of the major highlights of the upcoming patch and events.
Players will be able to catch the stream at the following times:
The stream is expected to be close to an hour long and will be followed by the servers going back up.