Battleground and Arena instability across all realms
by Elizabeth Harper 
Sep 27th 2007 at 6:38PM
Are Battlegrounds and Arenas your favorite things to do in-game? Well, for today at least you may want to reconsider. Both US and EU realms are reporting problems with Battlegrounds and Arenas that are causing players to get stuck inside after the Battleground or Arena has finished. Having not heard of any issues with PvP yesterday, I've got to wonder if this might have something to do with the hotfixes applied early this morning. (Though I don't have any details on what the hotfixes were applied to fix -- it could have been related to voice chat -- rolling restarts to apply them started in the US at 5:00 AM PDT and ended at 7:20 AM PDT -- with the initial post about Battleground and Arena issues coming at 7:25 AM PDT, the timing is suspicious.) Though Blizzard is working on the problem, we don't yet have any information on when the issue may be resolved, but until then, EU CM Aeus says that if you're stuck in a Battleground or Arena, you may safely escape by either exiting and restarting your game client or by entering /afk (which, if done when the Battleground is finished, should kick you out without marking you as a deserter).Filed under: Bugs, Realm Status, PvP
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tumples Sep 27th 2007 8:05PM
If you are stuck, just type /afk
Genixx Sep 27th 2007 8:14PM
some ppl are still stuck after using either one. it just has to time out if those dont work.
Helly Sep 27th 2007 8:27PM
Problem with this is that if you afk, it doesn't count the win/loss against your win/loss ratio, and doesn't update your rating accordingly. My team and I went 8-2 last night, but by the time we finished, it said we only had 2-2. Rating actually went down. Sigh.
Andelorn Sep 27th 2007 8:50PM
I believe the restart was to fix a problem that was found with /follow causing stupid amounts of data to be sent from the followee to the follower in some situations, booting the follower and upping latency.
That's going on a blue post on the bug forums about the /follow problem.
Chay Sep 27th 2007 9:39PM
As poster #1 said: Just type /afk.
Problem solved.