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by Anne Stickney 
Jun 22nd 2010 at 8:43PM
It looks like the long wait may be over, as US servers appear to be slowly coming back online from a lengthy extended maintenance. For now the list of servers up is small, and there's been no official confirmation from Blizzard as to whether or not the downtime is over -- however most servers that are up and live are experiencing queues in the thousands and are locked from further character creation at this time. We'll update this post when the servers are officially back up and running -- until then, why not check out the Tuesday Morning Post for reading material you may have missed?
Update #1: The official Warcraft Twitter just noted the following:
Update #1: The official Warcraft Twitter just noted the following:
Also, all servers that are currently live appear to be locked.#WoWInfo - We are continuing the process of marking realms live. We will provide an update on our progress at approximately 7:00PM PDT.
Update #2, 7:21PDT: The official Warcraft Twitter just noted the following:
#WoWInfo - We anticipate all remaining realms will be brought online within the next hour and appreciate your ongoing patience.
Filed under: Realm Status, News items
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 6)
Kraf Jun 22nd 2010 8:57PM
I completed every meta for the acheivement in less than 12 hours. It ain't hard
Fletcher Jun 22nd 2010 8:57PM
I did it in one ...
Fletcher Jun 22nd 2010 8:58PM
One day, that is, not one hour.
Philster043 Jun 22nd 2010 9:06PM
You get 2 frosties from the boss every day though. We just lost it for today, unless you were able to log in earlier this morning (or if the servers will come on before midnight.) It's why there are queues in the thousands.
Neutrallo Jun 22nd 2010 9:16PM
" Enjoy your fail " isn't even a sentence.
In fact it "fails" at being one.
MrJackSauce Jun 22nd 2010 10:06PM
even if you did the festival achievements for only Two (2) hours every day for the whole 2 weeks you would have nothing to do the last 5. And that's being generous i reckon. 2 hours every day is hard for some people to get and they still manage to get their stuff done.
jair Jun 22nd 2010 10:18PM
The metas that require ungodly amounts of the blossoms (threads) aren't quite as easy depending on how much play time you have in any given day. Maybe they'll extend a day for those still seeking the achievs.
However, I can see no reason why they would hold up a patch just for an in-game holiday. When Cata drops, they are very unlikely to time it to not intrude on a holiday. Move the holiday, not the patch imo.
TR Jun 22nd 2010 10:41PM
@ Kraf and Fletcher
Good. For. You.
/pat
Want a cookie?
Portals Jun 22nd 2010 8:49PM
Good thing my enchanting mats in the AH don't require a deposit :)
Joseph Smith Jun 22nd 2010 8:50PM
Based on the realm status app on my iPod, it seems random as to what's on. I have toons on 2 servers. One is on, one is off. Both are in the same BG though.
Oh, and 'Login Server is Busy'
Avan Jun 22nd 2010 8:51PM
Mal'Ganis and Argent Dawn have queues because of downtime? No wai!
park8b156 Jun 22nd 2010 8:52PM
OMG only 4 hours of play left befor work gerr /cry
offday Jun 22nd 2010 8:56PM
I'm kind of the in the same boat. All the hardcore Blizzard butt kissers love to downvote anyone who complains about this, but the reality is this is a paid service. When crap like this happens, we have a right to complain. And don't tell me, "well go outside," or "Oh no, you can't play WoW for one night." Because some of us have real lives and responsibilities. For example, Tuesday night is the night I don't have to work late. Well so much for WoW for me this week.
park8b156 Jun 22nd 2010 9:00PM
Edit: got in woot :P
N-train Jun 22nd 2010 9:15PM
People downrank people who rag on Blizzard because 90% of the posts are usually pointless QQ rants about how they're "squandering our money and the worst company ever to exist" for one day of extended downtime every couple weeks or "why the hell couldn't they didn't fix a glitch", as if they purposefully left in a glitch just to spite us, or purposefully picked Tuesdays just because you, yes you personally, don't have class/work that day.
And frankly, it's not like complete server lockdowns and extended maintenance days are commonplace. For 95% realms 95% of the time (meaning every other tuesday that isn't a patch day), things are up and running at 11am Pacific with no real problems. The people who complain act as if this is the third time this week they haven't been able to play on a Tuesday night, when really its more like the third time in 6 months.
mmmaaa Jun 22nd 2010 8:54PM
Wow.com has to do a better job with this. This was the only story that mattered tonight. My server was down. I wanted to know if others were having the same trouble. Nothing posted on the first page of wow.com. I'm not saying that new content can't be posted when maintenance goes overtime, but honestly I don't give a shit about a wow playing baseball player. The tops story is SERVERS ARE DOWN and wow.com's top story should reflect that as long as thats the case. That is news.
Xanaron Jun 22nd 2010 8:55PM
NERD RAGE!!!!!!
Portals Jun 22nd 2010 8:58PM
F**ked up maintenance with new content / UI changes isn't really news. It's expected. Hopefully your mail won't disappear into the nether.
cowfodder Jun 22nd 2010 8:57PM
Because going to the realm status portion of the blizzard website would be so hard. QQ moar.
mmmmaaa Jun 22nd 2010 9:01PM
kk douche, so according to the realm status page, several realms have been up for an hour, but it's impossible to log into them. That's news. But you wouldn't know that by looking at this website.