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On World of Warcraft's Network Issues
alphaneutrino writes to mention a C|Net article discussing some of the recent problems the World of Warcraft playerbase has experienced. From the article: "'Being a system administrator myself, I have some understanding of what goes on in a corporate data center,' said Evgeny Krevets, a sometimes-frustrated WoW player. 'I don't know Blizzard's system setup. What I do know is that if I kept performing 'urgent maintenance' and taking the service down without warning for eight-hour periods, I would be out of a job.' Blizzard blames some of the problems--such as the disconnection, for several hours on Friday, of players linked to several servers--on AT&T, its network provider. (AT&T did not respond to a request for comment.) "
Looking at your history (http://slashdot.org/~j0nkatz) its obvious you have a way with words.
I wonder why you bother talking to us, you're way too cool to hang with nerds like us.
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i rarely, if ever, see the problems i hear everyone complaining about. i get zero lag on my servers (Zuluhed and Destromath), nearly all of the bugs i've run into i can rightly blame on Cedega, and the only downtime i ever experience is when the authentication server crashes.
then again, i play only a few hours per week (or a few hours per day at most), so my chances of seeing downtime are few and far between.
IMO, if you're going to complain about downtime, you really ought to look at how often you play - and stop hammering the servers. go do something else when something breaks. i'm tired of hearing everyone bitch about things i never see.
don't like it? don't play.
grey wolf
LET FORTRAN DIE!
My god.
It AMAZES me how much shit people will put up with to keep playing MMORPGs. If the system is broke that badly, why don't you leave? Why the hell do you think the problems keep getting WORSE?
I mean, I certainly wouldn't put up with that shit, especially if I was paying a monthly fee.
Hell, I stopped playing Battlefield 2 after they released the version 1.12 patch because it suddenly caused a memory leak on my computer. With only 1GB of RAM, it would crash to desktop after about 30-45 minutes. I like to play Battlefield for much longer stretches, so this was unacceptable.
I LOVE BF2. I *CRAVE* the experience...it's even more addicting than BF1942 was. But I quit playing, because I have standards. I am NOT going to upgrade to 2GB RAM just to "fix" THEIR problem.
QUIT the game. Let Blizzard have a chance to catch their breath, then maybe they'll resolve the issues.
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