Patch 1.10.1?
by Elizabeth Harper 
Mar 28th 2006 at 9:30PM
Community manager Drysc informs us that all servers have been taken offline (as of approximately 6:20 PM PST) to fix an "issue" with patch 1.10. There's no current ETA on bringing the servers back online, nor any information (that I can locate) about what the problem may be. More updates as they come!
Update: As of 9:00 PM PST the login message reports
that the issue has been resolved and we should expect to see servers back online within the next 90 minutes.
Filed under: Realm News, Patches, Realm Status, Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
GoldFISH_no641 Mar 28th 2006 9:47PM
It hasnt been this rough since release week with issues such as these.
Andrew Chazerz Mar 28th 2006 9:54PM
As being a member of a group that hosts over 60 servers, I have no sympathy for this. Perhaps the only difference in what I do and what they do is that they have millions paying for the opportunity to see their content/entertainment. We have the site owners. If our hosting is down, we have to answer a handful of customers with the actual cause and steps to prevent in the future. When Blizzard fails, they reply to millions with little explaination or future prevention.
Greg Mar 28th 2006 9:57PM
Wow, this really hasn't been blizzard's day. I've been trying to get on all day and not one successful attempt.
bobilox Mar 28th 2006 10:02PM
What, they don't try these new releases out on a few relms first? Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wro...
Brian McBride Mar 28th 2006 10:12PM
Uh, better yet. Why don't they test this on a test server first? Perhaps something that we don't ever see. A clone of a random server that is then patched. Followed by a patch of one random live server, wait an hour, then patch the rest.
Sheesh. To think they have 6 million subscribers paying $15 a month. With that money, you think they could purchase a better patch system
Eric Mar 28th 2006 10:44PM
I got into the game for about 15minutes today before the shutdown. I was organizing a group of guys to head to Mara, so obviously I got onto a wyvern to fly to Desolace using the new flight path system. As I was passing by TB, i heard the "ching-ching" money sound. assuming that they took out my money for this 2nd leg of the flight, i checked my money and i had 2 extra gold in there. my group-mates noticed the same thing. perhaps this is why they took down the realms so quickly?
grimgash Mar 28th 2006 10:49PM
Let's do the math here. At 6 mollion users at $15 permonth, that works out to roughly $125,000/hr. So if the servers have been down now for 12+ hours, Blizzard has basically stolen around $1.5 million of our collective money today. That seems to qualify as grand theft. Not that I don't think they are working hard, God knows I've been on the other side of a nasty patch.
Luminair Mar 28th 2006 11:31PM
Halfway into Zul'Gurub and we got a SERVER SHUTDOWN message.
Wonderful; farming cancelled for the day. On top of that, for some reason everyone was still saved to BWL.
obo Mar 29th 2006 3:20AM
Yes they are most definately up.
But in about 10 hours of playing the test server and so far on the real thing, I haven't seen any sign of weather effects. :/
Insomniax is broken to all hell, but here's a few fixes: http://www.insomniax.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1251
Cosmos was ready with a slate of updates.
WoWwiki has a nice list of broken addons and possible fixes: http://www.wowwiki.com/Addons_broken_by_1.10.0
obo Mar 29th 2006 3:24AM
Also, I have no idea why, but I keep flagging PvP active on long bird flights (Darkshore to Gadget did it to me twice). Especially unfortunate on the flight to Gadget, the ganking was quick but painless.
boneyard Mar 29th 2006 4:42AM
weather is only in a couple of areas, check the patchnotes for which.
obo Mar 29th 2006 6:20AM
Yeah, Boneyard, I know. I haven't even been outside of areas that are supposed to have weather effects except for flights. No snow in Dun Morogh, no rain in Elwynn or Stranglethorn or Darkshore in three hours tonight, or at any point during my time on the test realms. It's turned on, set to max intensity. I don't even know what's supposed to happen in Tanaris, maybe a sandstorm?
I'm sure it'll be impressive when I see it, it's just not happening yet.
That said, the flight system is frickin fantastic now and I'm digging the priest changes.