Retaliation battlegroup down again
by Allison Robert 
Jun 16th 2009 at 10:15PM
For the second Tuesday in a row around the same time (9:00-9:30 pm EST-ish), the US Retaliation battlegroup has crashed. Blizzard has confirmed that it's performing urgent maintenance on the hardware of the affected realms, and they'll provide an update at 11:00 PM EST/8:00 PM PST. Hmmm. Makes you wonder if whatever caused last week's crash was accidentally rolled back during server maintenance earlier today.The following are the affected realms:
Area 52, Auchindoun, Azuremyst, Blade's Edge, Blood Furnace, Coilfang, Dawnbringer, Exodar, Fizzcrank, Galakrond, Ghostlands, Grizzly Hills, Shattered Halls, Terokkar, The Scryers, The Underbog, Velen, and Zangarmarsh.
Filed under: Realm News, Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Zeo Jun 16th 2009 10:23PM
Try playing on an Oceanic server in the Oceanic timezone. Every time there's Tuesday maintenance or a rolling restart it's during our peak playing times (8pm or 10pm).
Noscy Jun 16th 2009 11:45PM
Praise the day when oceanic servers are relocated to the region they actually service, 300ms FTL !!!!
Wyred Jun 17th 2009 5:13AM
All European servers had huge problems with the log-in servers last Thursday and Friday, leading to a 2000 post long thread of QQ on the tech forums about no-one being able to get on. Zero coverage. Wowinsider columnist's battlegroup goes down, instant coverage.
Mark Jun 16th 2009 10:56PM
Azuremyst (US) Down yet again for the second Tuesday in a row
Emilio Jun 16th 2009 11:02PM
Blizzard, I want a free Realm Transfer plz.
Aeyther Jun 16th 2009 10:27PM
Arg, another tuesday where I could've worked instead of staring at at grey Velen
Faar Jun 17th 2009 8:17AM
Maybe time to finally learn NOT to schedule any important WoW-related stuff on maintenance day, eh? ;)
LF NEW BATTLEGROUP Jun 16th 2009 10:28PM
LAME... (being polite but really want to say something else)
gbpacker Jun 16th 2009 10:28PM
This is kind of weird but both crashed happened while was in Ragefire Chasm. The first time I was like "OMG! What's going on!" and the second time i was like "Holy crap, didn't they fix this!" Hopefully this time the maintenance is shorter as they know what to do.
Styvorama Jun 16th 2009 10:31PM
Yeah this is no good. I have tomorrow off, and am sitting here waiting to be able to play. 2 weeks in a row is unacceptable.
Aeyther Jun 16th 2009 10:36PM
Velen's back up, woot!
Wrathkind Jun 16th 2009 10:41PM
Velen's back down, woot!
Styvorama Jun 16th 2009 10:43PM
haha, Velen was up, I got on, then it did a server restart. First said 15 minutes, then 15 seconds and booted everyone!
almoderate Jun 16th 2009 10:43PM
They do appear to be messing with us a bit... Terokkar has been up and down a few times in the last 10 minutes or so...
Zerokewl Jun 16th 2009 10:46PM
Back up!!! and down again...
This is getting old fast, I recomend everyone sign the petition for xfers to a new battlegroup that isn't run off a commodore 64
psmackk Jun 16th 2009 10:53PM
/cry i miss you dawnbringer............
Kiki Jun 17th 2009 2:34AM
Silly Dawnbringer :(
Kaezen Jun 16th 2009 10:53PM
Try playing on the Bloodlust battlegroup.
we're offline alll the time.
Nathrakh Jun 16th 2009 10:54PM
Stuck in Uld25 on Ignis trash in the middle of Bladestorm......spinning.........spinning........spinning......../puke
Shock Jun 16th 2009 10:57PM
2nd week in a row...this is getting old QUICK! My guild on Auchindoun had XT to less than 1% (roughly 60k) when it happened. This week we're 2mil left on Kologarn with one of his arms set to respawn. We were steamrolling Ulduar 25man too.
We did the same thing just on a different server. We went to Aegwynn and stood in trade chat in SW. We even had 25 people set to do Naxx...level 80's with some level 1's