Weigh in on the downtime debacle
by Amanda Miller 
Nov 11th 2008 at 11:41PM
It is no secret that servers have been seeing an awful lot of maintenance lately, and today has been the worst. While the blues have been encouraging and supportive, the frustration has been mounting, and many players are threatening to call it quits.
Of course, players threaten this on a daily basis, so it comes as no shock.
The responses on the forums, when they are available, on our own site, and in our team mail have made the WoW Insider team somewhat curious. How are you feeling about Blizzard today?
Jump through the break to take our super-scientific poll!
| Very frustrated, sad or angry. | |
|---|---|
| I'm thinking of quitting, taking a break, or not buying the expansion right away. | |
| Seriously, I've already canceled my account over it. | |
| Realms are extremely complex, and I'm sure Blizz is doing their best! | |
| Realms are what now? |
Filed under: Patches, Polls, Analysis / Opinion, Realm Status, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King, Forums
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 16)
Adam Holisky Nov 11th 2008 11:42PM
In before 5 million angry North Americans express their outrage at the year's biggest gaming screw up.
Dryssa Nov 11th 2008 11:45PM
First positive comment!
I don't mind. I'd rather have extra downtime than have millions of players lose their mail.
Xonate Nov 11th 2008 11:46PM
Heyhey, I'm not an angry North American! The downtime is annoying and probably will keep me from getting my last drop that I want pre-expansion, but hey, it gave some of my guildies and I lots of time to go own face on Starcraft. Good times had by all.
SBKT Nov 11th 2008 11:47PM
RAAAAAGE ADAM HOLLISKY BROKE THE SERVERS I'M ONE OF THE FIVE MILLION ANGRY DUDES
Hey, I have no hard feelings. We're just seeing more of the one wing because the one wing IS louder.
VyseV1 Nov 11th 2008 11:48PM
Idk, the whole anti piracy thing on Spore was pretty god awful >
Stormscape Nov 11th 2008 11:49PM
I don't have a problem with the realms needing to be offline for a while, but it is vaguely annoying when they say they'll be online at 6pm and here we are 3 hours later and they're still down, not only down, but completely, totally down.
Ancro Nov 11th 2008 11:51PM
Responding with GNERD RAAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEEE!!!
Seriously though, this is a really, really bad time for this to happen. First off, hello, Vet's Day for some players who were looking forward to getting stuff done. Second, a mere 48 hours before the expansion definitely makes your customers a bit concerned. I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard offered one of their fabled "free days" to make up for what had to be one of the worst MMO hiccups in history.
Norm Nov 11th 2008 11:54PM
In before the trolling eurotrash!...... oh wait nvm
ketsugi Nov 12th 2008 7:16AM
Personally, as an Oceanic player who's completely unaffected by Armistice/Veteran's Day, I must say this whole downtime doesn't perturb me in the least. All I'm doing is sitting in the office browsing WoWInsider anyway, which is pretty much what I usually do...
Matt P Nov 11th 2008 11:56PM
I've been doing homework and reading back-issues of Guildwatch. Life's good.
Nevermindz Nov 11th 2008 11:58PM
OK they messed up but I believe that there have been worst times than this one... At least on european servers.
I'm sad/angry but shit happens, eh?
Chuck (Arrinor) Nov 13th 2008 7:42AM
Personally I got everything I wanted done and was just running some dailies for gold the past couple days. I gotta say lost e-mail seems like a screwed up reason to have the realm servers down. It's just data - which I would hope that Blizzard has backup/redundancy and could populate e-mail data without interrupting our game play - seems fishy, I think there is more going on - but whatever the issue - get it fixed before tomorrow at midnight
Aj Nov 12th 2008 2:39AM
A term I like even when I may not agree: C'est la vie.
Best to probably remain optimistic though.
Kaimu Nov 12th 2008 12:17AM
I'm glad they're doing their best to get everything sorted before the Xpac.
If the game lags and goes down for the Xpac, so what?
Its a game and I will play it because I enjoy it.
Really, I don't mind spending my time with my fiance doing something else rather than sitting home on WoW. (yes, we both play WoW)
Verified Insanity Nov 12th 2008 12:26AM
/ROAARRR!
(Proudly-ish one of those 5 million North Americans!)
hiphophomies Nov 12th 2008 12:58AM
I'm only replying so I can be on the first page!
WOW's downtime has resulted in many hilarious adventures for my now stinky pinky.
Threeve Nov 13th 2008 10:25AM
I'm sure my wife appreciated the realms being down all night. Bad time for the mail thing to happen though, I had all kinds of pricey merchandise that I had shifted around characters ready to gouge on expansion day if appropriate.
Andrew Nov 11th 2008 11:45PM
At the time of posting this, all options have exactly one vote.
Dazher Nov 11th 2008 11:45PM
I'm sure they're doing their best but if this is how its going to be for the first days of Wrath, then i'm not getting the game for a while.
DWShammy Nov 11th 2008 11:45PM
I think they'll be ready by Lich King. I have faith... :/