Ya I remember the crashes for the opening of BC... ugh, I'm hoping were are surprised with stableness tonight, or at least playable lag.
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Ya I remember the crashes for the opening of BC... ugh, I'm hoping were are surprised with stableness tonight, or at least playable lag.
I was there for the initial release - it was *bad*. You don't know frustration until you go through a roll-back, which thankfully they don't do much of anymore. It took weeks for the game to get stable.
However, this is getting pretty bad. I'm wondering how much of the Wrath World Event got borked because nobody could log on, or if it all gets crammed in tonight.
Plus, the WoW forums are getting hammered, hard. I've *never* seen them set a forum to read only - they seriously need to upgrade their code/servers and bandwidth.
I fully expect this instability to last as long as Thanksgiving. They seem to have changed too much low-level stuff, that keeps breaking on them, and they're also fiddling with things like the mail system, which led to yesterday's outage.
The worst that could happen? They could lose the mail database, and then we'll see fireworks! :)
I think they bit off more than they could chew, honestly. The Achievments system is probably at least half of the problem, that should have been rolled out last summer.
My prediction for the next week: Lagfest, reboots, servers down, players unhappy. Keep your expectations low! :)
The next thing to break? The transfer to Battle.net accounts. Starting at midnight, millions of accounts will qeue up to transfer, and the servers will melt down on a constant basis until the flood slows. End of the weekend, at least. I think there will be a lot of players with Expansion in hand, who won't be able to upgrade their accounts, and the forums will blow up.
The next couple of weeks will suck for Blizzard employees. If you interact with them, cut them some slack. :)
This is nothing I prefer to have a fixed game then a bug.
Anyone play Bria in swg years ago? I rem being offline for a week or so at a time with those guys and they would not pull it off when your sitting talking get in the middle of somthing then it would just crash and loose everything within a hour of the crash.
Fun stuff 8o
what the hell! No 15 mins until server restart serverwide message!!? I want my money back!Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Ellay',index.php?page=Thread&postID=146919#post14 6919
um =p math is maybe a little off, multiply by 2-10 or 36 if your some people ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Frosty',index.php?page=Thread&postID=146920#post1 46920
BC went smoothly compared to the initial release. You think the WoW boards are bad now..you should have seen all the angry people and flames. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by 'Multibocks',index.php?page=Thread&postID=146934#p ost146934
And loot lag....ughhhh..
Hrm maybe I just dont remember those, but ive played since alpha trials =p..Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Fursphere',index.php?page=Thread&postID=146924#po st146924
We got invites to alpha test from blizzard through being in a top tier guild in EQ.
I remember most of the BC release, I had a good time with that I was the first lvl 61 shaman on Garithos, but then I had to get off and go stand duty (work for 24 hours) which obviously put me behind the power curve. Joannas leveling guide FTW !
It's called job security... I'm a programmer and i make sure that some problems i am the only 1 that knows how to fix them.
Blizzard Head guy "Guys something is really wrong with wow"
Blizzard employee "Oh no, now what"
Blizzard Head guy "WOW is working correctly"
Just like when i go bowling. I know i did something wrong when i got a strike.
Its the principle of the matter Frosty :D
And as said below, I have 5 accounts. I can use all the cents I can get!Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Frosty',index.php?page=Thread&postID=146920#post1 46920
Blizzard gave us 3 days free for being down a lot last month. Do you think that they will give us a day cause they where down almost all of yesterday.
I died a little yesterday... I didn't get my fix