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Huge WoW Outage Forces Nerds Outside

SUNDAY MARCH 26 2006 1:46 PM

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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Shalome

MODERATOR

Los Angeles, CA

MAR 26, 2006 01:59 PM

I'd just like to say that while there was noticeable lag and other problems around 1:30AM PST, things currently seem okay... on Dark Iron, anyway.

DireChocobo

Fairburn, GA

July 2004

MAR 26, 2006 02:04 PM

Oh, gee, WoW having connection problems. Thats new.

Andvari

Calgary, AB

April 2005

MAR 26, 2006 02:06 PM

Explains the pillaging going on outside.

Heathen_Dave

Birmingham, AL

July 2005

MAR 26, 2006 02:06 PM

New servers soon. Hooray.

LiquidYogi

Claremont, CA

September 2003

MAR 26, 2006 02:07 PM

Wow...I haven't played WoW in weeks...Whats wrong with me!?

ICY

Ireland

March 2005

MAR 26, 2006 02:08 PM

It also explains why some guy tried to hit me with a 'LIGHTNING BOLT!" after I got the last pack of doritos in the supermarket.

thrash242

Pearland, TX

September 2004

MAR 26, 2006 02:11 PM

Gee, I've never had this problem in Guild Wars.

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

Andvari

Calgary, AB

April 2005

MAR 26, 2006 02:12 PM

ICY said:
It also explains why some guy tried to hit me with a 'LIGHTNING BOLT!" after I got the last pack of doritos in the supermarket.

Best to stay inside while this blows over.

OctoberSeven

Downers Grove, IL

December 2002

MAR 26, 2006 02:21 PM

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

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.

Cigarette

Cleveland, OH

April 2004

MAR 26, 2006 02:25 PM

Penfold said:

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

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.

Yeah, that's like paying $49.95 for the SG software then $4 a month to use it.

jrave

Italy

January 2004

MAR 26, 2006 02:25 PM

ICY said:
It also explains why some guy tried to hit me with a 'LIGHTNING BOLT!" after I got the last pack of doritos in the supermarket.

now that's funny...

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK

August 2002

MAR 26, 2006 02:27 PM

Penfold said:

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

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.

SetzerGabbiani

Victorville, CA

December 2005

MAR 26, 2006 02:29 PM

Heathen_Dave said:
New servers soon. Hooray.

Bleh, sure didn't take Zuluhed very long to fill up with idiots

Oz_the_Vamp

Lorain, OH

June 2005

MAR 26, 2006 02:41 PM

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

http://www.mortalrealms.com/

animalwound

Belize

March 2006

MAR 26, 2006 02:55 PM

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. I despise online gaming. my 2 cents.