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World of Warcraft Outage Charted

Posted by Zonk on from the folks-losing-patience dept.

miller60 writes "World of Warcraft has had extended downtime in the past 24 hours, apparently due to problems with a content patch installation. Blizzard's first MMORPG had recurrent downtime problems in January. The performance problems haven't slowed the frantic growth for WoW, which now has more than 1.5 million subscribers (which, as the article notes, works out to at least $26,000 an hour in assumed revenue)."

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  1. Will the pain and suffering ever cease!? by dauthur · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wonder if this is ever going to be sorted out, or if it's going to be one of those neverending disappointments like Daikatana was?

  2. Re:What outage? by Kris_J · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    existing players now have the option to transfer to a low-pop server
    Pig's arse! ONE token server has the ability to transfer characters off it to a single other pre-determined server. A dozen other servers are schedulled, none of which are the one my main characters (and guild) are trapped on.
  3. Re:What outage? by Kris_J · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The problem is that they came down at 9pm local time for me. You didn't even try to get on for the first, what, 10 hours?
    Perhaps you should try a lower population server? Or a server on your continent
    I have been spawning characters on server after server and they've all had their problems. Proudmoore has my first and highest level character, therefore if I want to experience new content that's the one I want to use. I'm happy you found a server that works. Tell us all which one it is so we can all move there.

    There are no servers in Australia.