Server crashes plague Ruin battlegroup and others
by Daniel Whitcomb 
May 14th 2008 at 12:25AM
It seems to be an unfortunate reality of WoW, if not MMORPGs in general: When a new patch goes live, more often than not, it's going to be a bit rocky on the servers for a while. Patch 2.4.2 is no exception, Many servers are having trouble staying up, including most of the Ruin Battlegroup, which according to a few our tipsters has been having more than its share of trouble lately. Blue Poster Vrakthis has assured posters on the Customer Service Forum that the Realm issues are being looked into, but so far, there does not seem to be a solid reason for the downtime other than, hey, it's patch day!
EDIT: It has now been confirmed that the downtimes were intentional for the purpose of emergency maintenance. The downtime should be minimal.
As of the time of this writing, the following servers are down:
- Lothar
- Madoran
- Azgalor
- Bleeding Hollow
- Bloodhoof
- Durotan
- Elune
- Magtheridon
- Medivh
- Stormrage
- Trollbane
- Warsong
- Argent Dawn
- Arthas
- Mannoroth
- Shattered Hand
- Skullcrusher
- Zul'jin
Filed under: Realm News, Patches, Realm Status, Blizzard, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Fraufrau May 14th 2008 1:32AM
meh try connecting to an Oceanic realm on Bloodlust during peak raiding times (7pm AEST onwards) on a Sunday night and you will see what a regular and predictable BG crap out really looks like.
Parameter May 14th 2008 1:32AM
Yeah it sucks too. We had just started Gruul's Lair when the server went off line, and no one came back.
Drago Dracini May 14th 2008 2:11AM
More servers just went down... Stormreaver is one of them. >.
Talus May 14th 2008 11:26AM
Kael'Thas is down too :(
Bridei May 14th 2008 6:01AM
Once again we are ready to start our raid 7.30pm on Oceanic server and lag hits.. Since 2.4 there has only been a handful of nights we have been able to raid on time and all night. Despite a 119 page (and growing) complaint post on the Bliz customer service forums nothing seems to have been done about it..
Tridus May 14th 2008 6:14AM
Ruin has been having problems for weeks. There's clearly some kind of hardware problem they haven't figured out yet.
PeeWee May 14th 2008 7:14AM
Small notice -- when you mention servers being down, it would be nice if you mentioned if this effects US, EU or any other... -.-
StormX May 14th 2008 8:38AM
Maybe it's just me, but things seemed to be running just fine prior to the crash.
Yay for the server going down in the middle of BT. ¬¬
Wras May 14th 2008 9:29AM
Trollbane was terrible before the server was finally taken down. I couldn't remove items from my mailbox then about 5 minutes later I start seeing the receives loot messages. LOL. When the server came back up everything ran perfect.
Mr Crispy May 14th 2008 9:56AM
Trollbane is still on the fritz. 3 lag deaths within 15 minutes and I'm on a freaking t1 (hooray for sneaking play time at work). I've usually been the first to defend blizz as I'm a net admin myself and know how finicky servers can be but if I went this long with the same problems over and over again I'd be out of a job.
John May 14th 2008 10:38AM
Skullcrasher Crushed again, Ruin, is still Ruined.