Blizzard Will Compensate Bored Players from Offline Realms
by Mike Schramm 
Sep 7th 2006 at 8:43PM
Just like you probably are, I'm currently sitting around not playing the game. My realm (T-horn represent!) is in the list of servers Blizzard pulled offline last night and won't put back up until late tonight.And the complaints on this, as you can imagine, are many and varied. My guild was especially distraught, as we were all excited to run AQ20 this evening. Nimrodel of Earthen Ring isn't really happy that the advance notice Blizz gave was easy to miss. A few of the servers, including Laughing Skull, already had an upgrade-- why are they going through this again? And I can't think of another "upgrade" that caused all of us to lose our friends list. Sure, it's not the end of the world, but it is a little inconvenient at least. And we don't even have the new hunter talents to console us-- although Neth seems very happy to sell books to bored players. Maybe this is all a grand scheme...
There is a silver lining to all this. Drysc has acknowledged that Blizzard will be "providing compensation" for those realms currently undergoing the 36 hour upgrades, although he won't say how much until the maintenance is over (presumably because it may go on even longer than planned). That's nice, but I won't lie-- I'd rather be in AQ. Meanwhile, feel free to come join me in a few spirited rounds of iSketch! Look, I drew a Tauren!
Filed under: Tauren, Realm News, Fan stuff, Realm Status, Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Will Sep 7th 2006 11:43PM
Yes, and what do all those hundreds of bored players do? They invade the realms that *are* up, and annoy the rest of us for hours on end.
Like naked gnomes dancing around the IF auctioneer, "[Murlocc] yells: weutmil meerugrlle gurrigleugl im'chugl mutereglmil, Muterlee wekeuuuuml uruglo'l muterl". Sheesh.
I say, Blizzard should compensate players of *all* realms. Those on the down realms for not getting to play, and those on the *up* realms for putting up with all those bored players while they have nothing better to do than annoy the rest of us.... :p
Will (the other one) Sep 8th 2006 6:55AM
That's what I did. When Baldefist was down, I joined an RPPvP server, got an Alliance toon to lvl 6 and someone says:
Them: Hey is ths ur main server?
Me: What's a server?
Them: uhh? u stupid
I whisper: This is a RP realm man.
He whispers: wots that?
I then proceed to explain to him about RP servers...
He whispers: thats weird
lol
aaron Sep 8th 2006 8:49AM
I want to be compensated for the instance resetting at 10pm when we had our 5th naxx boss of the night at 10%.
12..11..yawn..10 .. warrior goes offline, priest goes offline, everyone goes offline.
You come online, entire zone hits you for 12398023981029831213123. Ugg.