Patch 5.2 interview with Dave Kosak
Inside an old alt's vault
The latest patch 5.2 news
All of the latest Mists of Pandaria newsMany servers not yet up after all
by Eliah Hecht 
Oct 14th 2008 at 8:10PM
The previous post about the servers coming back online seems to have been slightly premature. Many, if not most servers are still offline, and the current target for bringing them back is 6 PM PST/9 PM EST. Be aware that this target has been pushed back three times since being originally set for 2 PM PST/5 PM EST today, so I wouldn't count on being able to play any time tonight necessarily. And when the realms do come up, I wouldn't expect them to be super-stable; the few realms that are up right now are having all manner of crashes and other difficulties.
That said, I'm can't really be mad at Blizzard for any of this. This is possibly the largest patch in MMO history, as one astute commenter pointed out; it would have been extremely optimistic to expect it to go off without a hitch. We'll be back sooner or later (unless they decide to just leave the servers off until Wrath hits), and we'll have plenty of new toys to play with. In the mean time, why not check out our voluminous coverage of the patch, or our handy all-in-one FAQ?
Patch 3.0.2 "Echoes of Doom" has landed and WoW Insider has you covered. From patch notes to talent guides for every class to fixing your addons to 5 easy achievements you can snag right now. Make sure to check out the latest news.Filed under: Patches, Realm Status
Reader Comments (Page 22 of 22)
Cow Oct 15th 2008 10:17AM
Rest assured that Blizz has not learned frmo their mistake stateside. We are now getting same the '2pm? Nah, try 3pm. OH WAIT, WORLD SERVER IS DOWN', 'authenticating...' crap that you were.
Leshrac Oct 15th 2008 12:11PM
With all this downtime, bugs, issues and crashes Blizzard is just preparing us for the WotLK launch.
What a bunch of fuggin noobs, Blizzard - how long have you been managing a 10 million sub MMO? Holy crap, get your shiite together!!!!!!!!!!
crsh Oct 15th 2008 1:45PM
We were lucky enough to have US-Garona up most of the evening starting around 8 EST; horrible lag in cities, but the rest of the game world was decent enough. Good enough for a bunch of friends and I to go get our Jenkins title in UBRS, then go 10-man Onyxia (despite having done all that stuff, most of our classic raiding achievements are missing).
Silaska Oct 18th 2008 4:10PM
"That said, I'm can't really be mad at Blizzard for any of this. This is possibly the largest patch in MMO history,..."
More then 10 million people play wow, all paying about 13 euros a month. So that is 130 MILLION A MONTH. And still they cannot make a good working patch and keep their servers up?
That is unbeleivable imo