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Huge WoW Outage Forces Nerds Outside

Submitted by WilWheaton

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It's like a million nerds cried out in terror . . . and were suddenly silenced.

World of Warcraft is experiencing lengthy downtime, and blaming its service provider for the outages. The virtual world, which now has more than 6 million users, also announced emergency maintenance outages overnight on a large number of game servers (known as "realms").

"We'd like to make all players aware that at this time our internet service provider is experiencing significant complications, and as a result the playability on a large portion of realms has been adversely affected," said a message from Epifanio, Senior Game Master, on the WoW forums.. "Symptoms include but are not limited to lag, random disconnections and slow authentication. Our network technicians are doing everything in their power to work with our ISP so that this issue may be resolved as swiftly as possible."

Netcraft believes that the outages may be the result of a Ddos, citing rather coincidental server maintenance following "complications" from Blizzard's provider, AT&T.

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Moonrabbit

Moonrabbit

Vancouver, BC
February 2005

MAR 26, 2006 02:55 PM

vampozman said:
One more reason why everyone should stick to free games, like MUDs.


http://www.mortalrealms.com/




Or go for a walk?... Says the man who's been lazing around playing PS2 all day....

I've been reading and working out... Some?

elicit77

elicit77

USA
October 2003

MAR 26, 2006 03:08 PM

frown eeek This is so sad....

Landed

Landed

I'm lost
March 2006

MAR 26, 2006 03:11 PM

WTB Social Life PST

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

MAR 26, 2006 03:19 PM

animalwound said:
I had a roomate that made more fake gold online than he could in real life. Had to kick his ass out for not paying bills. Who do you think paid for the internet?? What a weak ass male bitch!!! Sure he could destroy villages and make "cool" looking people on a screen, but he counldn't get a clue for the life of him. mad mad mad mad mad I despise online gaming. my 2 cents.


I love how you blame this on "online gaming" and not "lazy no-good douchebags".

animalwound

animalwound

Belize
March 2006

MAR 26, 2006 03:32 PM

Keith said:

animalwound said:
I had a roomate that made more fake gold online than he could in real life. Had to kick his ass out for not paying bills. Who do you think paid for the internet?? What a weak ass male bitch!!! Sure he could destroy villages and make "cool" looking people on a screen, but he counldn't get a clue for the life of him. mad mad mad mad mad I despise online gaming. my 2 cents.


I love how you blame this on "online gaming" and not "lazy no-good douchebags".



Well i have other thoughts on online gaming, but Im not here to explain paragraphs of crap you wouldn't give two shits about. I just keep it simple. I blame parents not really online gaming. But i can see how you can put one post of two and two together. I thought i would mention who i forced one nerd outside without having a network go down.

DireChocobo

DireChocobo

Fairburn, GA
July 2004

MAR 26, 2006 04:55 PM

Keith said:

Penfold said:

thrash242 said:
Gee, I've never had this problem in Guild Wars. whatever

Can't believe people pay money to put up with the crap I've heard about WoW.




I can't believe people buy a game and then shell out more money just to play it.


I can't believe people pay $50 to play a shitty game with annoying people and then keep playing it just because it's free.



I can't believe people pay $50 to play a shitty game with annoying people and then keep playing it when it's another $15 a month. tongue

WoW made me stabby, I hated those people.

I can't say too much though, I still play EQ after 4 years. skull

fountainofdreams

fountainofdreams

Batavia, IL
January 2005

MAR 26, 2006 05:47 PM

and strangely enough, there were 6 million severe sunburn cases reported for the same period of time.

>.>

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

MAR 26, 2006 06:06 PM

I've paid $50 for plenty of games I played way less than a month. World of Warcraft, on the other hand, has kept my main gaming attention more or less for almost two years. In that time, I've only bought 3 or 4 other games -- none of which I am still currently playing. If I hadn't had World of Warcraft, how many more would I have bought? If you look at it that way, World of Warcraft has probably saved me money.

Keith

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK
August 2002

MAR 26, 2006 06:07 PM

And my wife bought Guild Wars when it came out. She played it for a week, and then uninstalled it. It's currently gathering dust on the shelf.

s5

s5

STAFF

San Francisco, CA

MAR 26, 2006 06:14 PM

I don't know very much about Warcraft, but if it's like anything else on the internet, no one actually left their house during the outage. They stayed at home, glued to the screen, retrying the connection several times each minute until it came back.

Pwndcake

Pwndcake

Portland, OR
October 2004

MAR 26, 2006 06:25 PM

That's funny, I was just thinking of migrating from EQ2 over to WoW. I'll wait another month or two and see how this all works out.

Andvari

Andvari

Calgary, AB
April 2005

MAR 26, 2006 06:33 PM

s5 said:
I don't know very much about Warcraft, but if it's like anything else on the internet, no one actually left their house during the outage. They stayed at home, glued to the screen, retrying the connection several times each minute until it came back.



How well you know me. wink

Cigarette

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH
April 2004

MAR 26, 2006 06:34 PM

s5 said:
I don't know very much about Warcraft, but if it's like anything else on the internet, no one actually left their house during the outage. They stayed at home, glued to the screen, retrying the connection several times each minute until it came back.


Shut up, just shut up, okay?!

fiendish

fiendish

USA
December 2002

MAR 26, 2006 06:38 PM

thrash242 said:
Gee, I've never had this problem in Guild Wars. whatever

Can't believe people pay money to put up with the crap I've heard about WoW.



"guild wars" whats that?
is that anything like phantasy star online?

Tadzi

Tadzi

Greeley, CO
April 2003

MAR 26, 2006 06:47 PM

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