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  • SUNDAY MARCH 26 2006 1:46 PM

Huge WoW Outage Forces Nerds Outside

Submitted by WilWheaton

Edited by WilWheaton

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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Noctua

Noctua

San Francisco, CA
February 2004

MAR 27, 2006 07:00 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.



Except that when WoW is down, it doesn't have a splash page with Mary and an amusing message telling players that Timmy's run out to go get more naked night elves.

malkav11

malkav11

Saint Paul, MN
July 2003

MAR 27, 2006 08:12 PM

Noctua said:

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.



Except that when WoW is down, it doesn't have a splash page with Mary and an amusing message telling players that Timmy's run out to go get more naked night elves.



But it *should*.

FrankMask

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN
June 2003

MAR 28, 2006 01:47 AM

MUAUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Stage 1 is complete! Soon we will begin stage 2, shutting down WoW forever and unleashing millions of bleary eyed social deviats on an unsuspecting suburbia! And then I Shall Rule The World!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!11!!

Tekky

Tekky

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

MAR 28, 2006 01:52 AM

i remember last year when i lived in my college dorms, our ISP shut down suddenly one night...i went downstairs and there were literally over a dozen people in the hallway who were wandering aimlessly out of their rooms asking, "what happened to the internet?"

Mercie

Mercie

SUICIDEGIRL

Connecticut, USA

MAR 28, 2006 12:25 PM

ahahha, my best friend is here now playing video games JUST because of this. God this amuses me. <3 WoW and their shitty servers. They need to leard how to spend their 150 million a month. lol...

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