World of Warcraft Trial Period Extended

EvilAvatar has details on the recent World of Warcraft server issues. This despite the addition of over 88 servers in the last week. Total game population is already in the 200,000 subscriber neighborhood and rising. As a result of the lag, the free month included in the box is being extended for an indetermined amount of time. From the article: "We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and are dedicated to providing World of Warcraft players with the best play experience possible. Therefore we'll be adding a small trial-period extension for players who created accounts before or during the downtime. In the days ahead, we'll provide additional details on how the trial-period extension will be determined."

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Re:Been playing since day one...

[OAB_X]

Almost every MMORPG has launch problems. Star Wars Galaxies was even worse then this one. Im surprised that they added new servers so quickly though. Anyone remember Diablo II on launch week? Random disconnects, timeouts, etc. Blizzard underestimated their popularity again.

Does No One Know How to Read?

[Chasuk]

This despite the addition of over 88 servers in the last week.

Why do none of the /. submitters apparently RTFA?

From the *LINKED* article:

To keep up with the demand from our players, 47 new servers were made available, increasing the total number of servers to 88.

Is the above sentence really that difficult to comprehend?

I've thought about becoming a paid subscriber many times, but goofs like this always prevent me.

Re:3 Servers are STILL down from 2nd day of "launc

[sweede]

What most people are pissed about is that guild names are UNIQUE ACROSS ALL realms. For instance, I play on Hellscream. My guilds name is Grasshoppers of Death. No other player on any realm can have the guild name Grasshoppers of Death.

Across all 88 realms, there is only 1 Legions of Doom (made up name, probably a real guild).

That's a cool name, im sure the guild master from beta wanted that name and joined the first realm avialable. The problem is that there are hundreds of names that people wanted to reserve.
My name is Azrael, each realm can have their own Azrael, but no other realm can have Grasshoppers of Death.

Combine that with the inability to transfer characters across realms? Thats what people are upset about.

Of course, we've also known about all of this some time before the launch.

Re:Pretty small servers

[Jord]

Not lonely at all when you consider that everyone is in the newbie areas right now. That has been the problem. The servers can handle the load, they just can't handle everyone being in the low level zones all at once. They have stated on their forums that once everyone starts to spread out into the higher zones that they will remove or reduce the queues and allow more people per server.

Still, even with everyone in the newbie zones, it is not as bad as say the bazar from EQ 1. The trick right now it seems is to go where everyone else isn't. Then there is no lag. However, if you want to play a Night Elf, I would wait a few weeks, those zones are rough at the moment.