Urgent authentication database maintenance underway
by Adam Holisky 
Mar 31st 2009 at 3:18PM
The opening announcement on the login screen has just let us know that there is urgent maintenance being performed on the authentication servers. The maintenance will continue until 1:00 p.m. PDT / 4:00 p.m. EDT. During this time you may or may not be able to log into the game. Pretty much the luck of the draw and beyond your control.
Account management and posting on the forums will be offline during this time as well, so the troll's trolling will have to terrifically terminate 'till temporally soon.
We'll update this post when things are back to normal, or if there are additional issues.
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mastique Mar 31st 2009 3:22PM
Ah.. back to work then...
Adam H. Mar 31st 2009 3:24PM
right as I'm trying to login, i check WoWi to see this article, then back to login screen to see it frozen at the authentication portion.
le sigh.
Rihlsul Mar 31st 2009 3:29PM
Ack... appalling alliteration abuse abounds, Adam.
Boydboyd Mar 31st 2009 3:37PM
I love alliteration! :D
Denso Mar 31st 2009 3:36PM
I was just in 10 man VoA 3/4 of the way down and I got DC'd, in a urgent panic I frantically typed in my pw and pressed enter only to see authenticating then noticing the urgent bullentin, you have forsaken me Blizzard.
Usdom Mar 31st 2009 3:40PM
I wanted to play wow before I made my last class for the evening but nooooo. Blizzard has to be asshats.
Boydboyd Mar 31st 2009 3:43PM
They don't create problems with authentication servers or other maintenance issues on purpose.
I believe you would be the asshat in question after making that assumption/accusation.
Be gone, pest!
Lorsty Mar 31st 2009 3:42PM
Nuuuu!
The forums!! My precious, precious forums! Whatever shall we do without them?!
On a side note, I wonder if this is to try to fix the problems people with Battle.net accounts were having.
epicboyz Mar 31st 2009 3:46PM
Noooo.... My PRECIOUS.... We NEEDZ, Precious...
ScytheNoire Mar 31st 2009 3:49PM
OMG, I can't play WoW! Quick, someone give me some crack!
Hatfield Mar 31st 2009 3:52PM
You forgot to thank us for our patience. :-)
JOEKEMP Mar 31st 2009 4:04PM
Nice way to PHAIL blizzard, i can't wait to see what 3.1 has in store for us. You guys need to start your own stimulus plan and hire more devs to do the work that we are paying for.
I guess I shouldn't complain, they have a history of this phailure.
suck it blizzard!!!
PeeWee Mar 31st 2009 4:55PM
All that anger, ana no one at Blizzard will read it, or care about it if they accidently do.
Waah waaah waaaah. QQ corner is over there. >>
Hasteur Mar 31st 2009 4:18PM
So you all are complaining about on average a around 90% uptime on an internet service? There are worse things to worry about. Personally I'd be worried about the economy, electricity distribution in Iraq, Flooding in the upper midwest, homeless, etc.
native Mar 31st 2009 4:32PM
sure there are worse things to worry about.
but they're only worse because we have lesser worries to compare them with.
therefore we need these small worries to keep things in perspective.
blizzard deliberately did this to help us understand the myriad serious problems in the world today.
and i for one applaud them for it.
Nicole Mar 31st 2009 8:43PM
ADAM!
Starting to get worried about you.... somehow I lost your email address. Hope you're okay, and that you survived the worst of the floods.
Nicole / Saire