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by Daniel Whitcomb 
May 18th 2009 at 8:55PM
A sudden wave of crashes has hit the North American WoW servers, with the Emberstorm and Whirlwind Battlegroups especially hard hit. As of this writing, most of the affected servers are still down. Blizzard is aware of the issue and is looking into it, but has no further information to give at this time. We'll update this post when we hear more.
UPDATE: According to Crygil, tonight's issue was out of Blizzard's control, but luckily things have resolved themselves. All realms should be up within the next half hour.
[Thanks to everyone who gave us a heads up!]
UPDATE: The 8 PM Pacific ETA has been removed from the original notice. This could be a long night.
UPDATE: 8 PM Pacific time is the current ETA for the return of the affected servers.
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Bulko May 18th 2009 9:54PM
they removed the part about it being done by 8 pdt
Satyricom May 18th 2009 10:00PM
Just finished watching Edward Scissorhands. Wanted to go do the daily grind... guess I'll go watch Beatlejuice instead. Tim Burton FTW. -Cairne
Icedimond May 18th 2009 10:08PM
Shu'Halo went down unexpected like i was doing random dailys and wispering to my friends and then i got DC trying to come back online server was down i think yesterday there was a porblem i was trying to log in and said world server down
Pyornthe May 18th 2009 10:08PM
ETA has been removed from the thread.
Clavat May 18th 2009 10:28PM
Wyrmrest Accord went down when I decided to go outside for once. You make one little change in your routine and this happens. Go figure. *shrug*
Rein May 18th 2009 10:44PM
I hear that seattle still has power, and yet Blizz says a Power outage killed the Battle groups
Ugru May 18th 2009 10:56PM
I believe Monican called it a "service outage," not a power outage.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=17222903994&sid=1
Crool May 18th 2009 10:44PM
And I just got my Swift Flight Form yesterday and was looking at farming in 1/5th the time tonight...
Time to level my gnomes over on Alterac Mountaints.
arculight May 18th 2009 10:47PM
yes Seattle is the location of a company named Interlap that took over Ops for AT&t in march 2009 and is responsible for the major lag on these realms boasting full recoverability and security measures has failed from the start. time for blizzard to step in and step it up for all its paying customers that dont pay for lag and down time. its been 2 months since ive seen descent latency on the realm and now we know the culprit someone needs to take ownership of the problem and restify it now bladefist unite
remnant May 18th 2009 10:46PM
righteo.. just killed sarth in OS and then we were gunna head into Ulduar to clean up iron council and ignis and maybe try our hand at thorim and RIGHT after we kill sarth "server disconnects"
Kylenne May 18th 2009 11:38PM
Moon Guard US is up.
Drow May 19th 2009 9:16AM
It was great! We were all logging on, invites were going to go out in 7 minutes, and we were ready to go ahead and down Yogg-Saron25 after our progress from the night before. Time to start over again.
Katz May 19th 2009 12:34PM
night of raiding *flush*