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World of Warcraft AQ Gates Open!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the of-course-it-will-blow-up dept.

Tayman writes "Wow...who didn't see this one coming? The players on the World of Warcraft Medivh server opened the gates to AQ. What happened next? The server crashed repeatedly. Why create content the servers can't handle? The very first time I read about this patch, I knew the servers would crash. The more people who open the gates, the more angry customers Blizzard will have in my opinion. With 5million+ subscribers, you would think Blizzard would have the best servers/connection money can buy. Although, I'm sure it's more complicated than simply plugging in a few ram chips and faster processors though. Most of the people involved in the raid are having a great time though. Could this be the most epic battle ever introduced to the mmorpg market? All signs point to yes. Let's see how long the mobs will respawn. Hopefully, the people of the Medivh server haven't seen anything yet. Either way, I would hate to be a network admin for Blizzard atm. ^_^ Here are some pics of the event. Thanks go out to all of those who took these pics. World of Warcraft AQ Pics Check out MMORPG Veteran to keep up with the events as they unfold." Update: 01/23 13:44 GMT by Z : Additionally, brandor wrote in with a link to some video of the event.

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  1. Re:Very nice of you to tell us by masklinn · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sounds like the fucking Sleeper Event in Everquest, but with less coolness and more suckage, to me...

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  2. Blizzard's server administration blows goat anus. by Phanatic1a · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's really quite amazing what an atrocious job blizzard has done keeping servers up.

    There are queues to limit the number of people on them at a given time. They've recently started deactivating new character creation on certain servers. And there's a weekly maintenance, every Tuesday, where they take all the servers down for a period of *hours*. Even the servers for their community forums go down regularly.

    And even after all that, usually on Sunday or Monday night they end up having to reset servers. So they can't even keep them up from one maintenance period to the next one, a mere 7 days later. That's like, what, six sixes of reliability? If your phone company or cable company were that unreliable, there'd be mass hangings in the street, but since it's a MMORPG there's this critical mass of fanboys which makes it Allowed.

  3. I don't get it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    I don't understand what the fuss is about... WoW servers don't have anything like the concurrent user count on the Eve-Online cluster!!!

    "Could this be the most epic battle ever introduced to the mmorpg market?"

    how many players together 40? 50? wow, thats so massively multiplayer!

    Seriously how can any other MMORPG out there right now hold a candle to the achievements of Eve-Online recently???

  4. Re:Why does by symbolic · · Score: 0, Troll


    Firefox: File->Close Tab

  5. Re:Why does by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    LOL!!!! OMG! U made fun of teh M$! j00 are a brilliant fag.

  6. Or write to them and tell them their design sucks by Snaller · · Score: -1, Troll

    And stop modding down people who's views you don't agree with - that is an abuse of the mod system.

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