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World of Warcraft Server Problems

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the including-my-soft-reset-of-MC dept.

vjmurphy writes "Connectivity to the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft servers and web site appears to have had some difficulties over the past week. Their hosting is provided by AT&T." That includes my raid's dying twice in MC due to 4000 latency, and also a soft reset of MC. Good work, AT&T.

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  1. Makes a news item in Slashdot by penfold69 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Try living on the EU servers - its been like this for a year.

    P.

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  2. Possible cause.... SBC/ATT merger? by 8282now · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Haven't been terribly impressed at the technical capabilities of SBC....

  3. DDoS possible by Daggon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Several months back there was a similar rash of instabilities and sever restarts. There were a bunch of rumors that gold farmers were using something to de-stabalize the servers. It used to be that zoning into instance under high lag was used to dupe items, never confirmed it actaully worked but that was the rumor.

    I mention it because perhaps something similar is going on here. The servers are getting destabilized and forced to restart. And you can use a server restart(and the small rollback that usually hits because of it) to dupe items or gold(this works, I've seen it done).

    In the end its just a random collection of rumors that fits the facts. So take with whatever amount of seasoning you need.