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On World of Warcraft's Network Issues

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-queue-please-go-make-yourself-a-sandwich dept.

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.) "

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  1. A typical week on Mal'Ganis by SaguratuS · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sunday: The day the server stood still
    Monday: *gasp*, playable (until 11pm)
    Tuesday: Weekly Maintenance Day. Nothing else EVER needs to be said about this day.
    Wednesday: Playable (until 11pm), good chance maintenance aftermath.
    Thursday: The 10 second instant-casts day for MC & BWL.

    Yeah, it goes on. Our server reliably bites the dust around 11pm every night for 6 hours, not to mention the constant plague of login issues and 30-minute loading screens during peak hours. Funny how this is all on a low-medium population server.

  2. 8 hours? Coincidence? by ziggamon2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it's the Blizzard guys' moms that come in and say "Enough of those stupid games already, go to bed!"? ;)

    Or are they too cool to be running the servers out of their parents' basements like the rest of us?

  3. Last heard from the WoW datacenter... by fuyu-no-neko · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Well, at least I have chicken!"

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    Don't take the above poster too seriously. He doesn't.
  4. Re:$15/mo times six million users.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blizzard, I can guarantee this: if you spend $35 million per month on refactoring, hardware and bandwidth, all your shareholders go away. Guaranteed. I promise.

  5. NSA Agents Hot on the Trail of Horde Terrorists by Anubis333 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's hard for AT&T to cater to so many millions of users *AND* filter/direct all of their customer data illegally and directly to the NSA.

  6. thank you AT&T! by tidokoro · · Score: 5, Funny

    WOW server downtime is saving my marriage.

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    tidokoro
    what turns a man's karma neutral? lust for gold? power? or just a heart born full of neutrality?