Think that this could have anything to do with the storm here in buffalo? People here are in a mad dash do get there homes and businesses on backup power ASAP.
I had no idea how bad the light pollution ion Buffalo really is. It was not until my first cruise several years ago that i actually got to see the night sky. Now i spend most of my nights on the cruise sipping a whiskey sour staring up at the thousands of stars that i have never seen before. People that never have taken the time to get away from a city to stare at the stars really should.
HERE HERE! I am not saying that global warming is not a problem, just that we simply do not understand any part of our environment well enough to predict anything more then a day or two in advance. Most of our climate models have a proven margin of error exceeding 400%! Can you imagine if we based anything on any model with a 400% margin of error? I will let your imagination run wild with that one.
It is clear that you sir have never played WoW. A ninja is someone wo "steals" somting from another player. i.e a ninja-looter, ninjas somthing. http://ninja.urbanup.com/1407729/
I don't know another way to say this but if you don't like something about the USA just don't come, or leave. No one is stopping you, if you live here and you don't like it please by all means leave it's a free country. If you have a problem with record low unemployment( EVEN AFTER ALL THE HURRICANES), High wages, a growing economy(cough cough sorry Europe), and the possibility to do almost what ever you want to do with your life then your nuts. There are reasons why the USA is the most powerful nation in the world, none of which i saw posed in this thread. So if you don't like shit here Dont Come Get Out.
That is totally nuts. Are they admitting his CDMA or PCS OR GSM mobile phone? WEP on his router? Watch a DVD. The list could go on forever... that must be one ignorant judge. Feel free to list all the stuff i was too lazy to type.
Wow(no pun intended), is is just me or do other people see most of Blizzards responses a total lie?
1. You say that you sold six hundred thousand units. Is the game not capable of supporting this many users?
The short answer is "The game is capable of supporting this many players," but it would probably be helpful to provide some background information. Based on our market analysis, we made some initial calculations about the size of the massively multiplayer online games market in the United States. We then accounted for new customers to the genre based on our previous games. Looking over this data, we did believe that there was the potential for an extremely sizable interest in a Blizzard MMOG. According to our research, other successful MMOGs in the U.S. had achieved roughly 300,000 subscribers after 12 months of operation. What ended up happening with World of Warcraft is that we achieved double these numbers in approximately the first six weeks of launch. We absolutely can support the number of copies we put on shelves, but we believed it would take us longer to get to this number in terms of players purchasing the game and logging on.
We had not anticipated this amount of growth in such a short time; however, we did have a backup plan that was deployed rapidly. In the first week of launch, we more than doubled our number of game servers and server infrastructure to accommodate the demand. The fact that we had planned to grow the service over the first 12 months of operation was evident, as we had server hardware waiting to be deployed. We just anticipated that this server rollout would be gradual. Copies of the game were being purchased at a much faster rate than anticipated, so we had to abandon our slower-paced plan and go into rapid deployment to accommodate these additional customers. This meant we also had to advance our timetable for additional server purchases.
With such a rapid growth of the network, we started to see several bottlenecks in the infrastructure that exposed themselves very quickly when the expanded hardware immediately took on massive load. These bottlenecks were solvable, but they required additional upgrades to the backend systems to accommodate the load--which, again, we hadn't planned to see, even with the extreme estimates, until later in the year. Regardless, server stability has remained our number-one priority, and so we acquired and deployed even more equipment as part of the process of addressing these issues. All of this new hardware also required additional software and operating system upgrades on the backend. The problems that some players on the 20 or so most populated servers (out of the current total of 88 servers) have been experiencing are related to some of the upgrades not functioning as desired. We are working diligently with our vendors and internal technical staff to get as quick of a resolution to the problems as possible, and we believe there should be noticeable improvements soon. When our community team commented that people are working 24/7, they weren't exaggerating.
This is a total utter lie, i played the beta and the same problems still exist in the retail that they had in the beta. The only exception to this is that now the problems are worse.
2. If it's true that the server problems are related to the overwhelming number of players, why was no effort made to better distribute players evenly across realms, or allow players and guilds to transfer to less populated servers?
We actually did have a number of checks in place at launch to distribute players as evenly as possible across realms. When a new account logged in, the game would ask what realm rule set and time zone the player preferred, and then it would suggest the realm with the lowest population that matched the selected preferences. That said, we're definitely working on resolving the overpopulation problems that ended up occurring on some realms despite our preventative measures. A realm-transfer option that would allow pla
Wow i really love this game but was pissed when i had to wait in line for an hour to play. I dont understand how they did not see this coming. They Boxed X number of games and have X number of slots/servers it seems like they over sold their capacity. That makes me mad!
No. But that would be awesome. If only i could get Bush to follow me around like those little robots in DOOM 3.
What i really was saying is that sounds like a political article in a nerd wrapper. It speaks more about the US's foreign policy then about the robots them selves... really if i want political commentary I will go to foxnews.com
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Think that this could have anything to do with the storm here in buffalo? People here are in a mad dash do get there homes and businesses on backup power ASAP.
I had no idea how bad the light pollution ion Buffalo really is. It was not until my first cruise several years ago that i actually got to see the night sky. Now i spend most of my nights on the cruise sipping a whiskey sour staring up at the thousands of stars that i have never seen before. People that never have taken the time to get away from a city to stare at the stars really should.
They did that in WoW it was called the million gnome march. They did it to protest somthing forget what exactly it was... The video was great though.
Why did they choose June 6th to shut down 6Bone IPv6? Just because it sounds cool?
Desire is irrelevent Need is irrelevent Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
Actually I can think of LOTS(even if illegal) interesting things i would like to inhale, ie Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol
HERE HERE! I am not saying that global warming is not a problem, just that we simply do not understand any part of our environment well enough to predict anything more then a day or two in advance. Most of our climate models have a proven margin of error exceeding 400%! Can you imagine if we based anything on any model with a 400% margin of error? I will let your imagination run wild with that one.
I for one welcome our new ethereal wisp overlords. Skinny(60 Rogue), KtMae(60 Druid) Arthas
Radio Telescope: 100 million dollars RSA Token Sync'd: 50 dolloars RSA Token Sync'd: to your favorite quasar--- Priceless Step 4 Profit?
I allways thought that phishing worked because it cost so little to set up and you only have to dupe one or two people to make thousands of dollars?
It is clear that you sir have never played WoW. A ninja is someone wo "steals" somting from another player. i.e a ninja-looter, ninjas somthing. http://ninja.urbanup.com/1407729/
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I don't know another way to say this but if you don't like something about the USA just don't come, or leave. No one is stopping you, if you live here and you don't like it please by all means leave it's a free country. If you have a problem with record low unemployment( EVEN AFTER ALL THE HURRICANES), High wages, a growing economy(cough cough sorry Europe), and the possibility to do almost what ever you want to do with your life then your nuts. There are reasons why the USA is the most powerful nation in the world, none of which i saw posed in this thread. So if you don't like shit here Dont Come Get Out.
That is totally nuts. Are they admitting his CDMA or PCS OR GSM mobile phone? WEP on his router? Watch a DVD. The list could go on forever... that must be one ignorant judge. Feel free to list all the stuff i was too lazy to type.
Wow that is cool i had been thinking lately of how to zip tie some cool LED fans to the amp in my car. Got to love the hardware store
I get to drive the subaru!! AWD baby!!
All i can think is... Do the french like giving us reasons to hate them?
1. You say that you sold six hundred thousand units. Is the game not capable of supporting this many users?
The short answer is "The game is capable of supporting this many players," but it would probably be helpful to provide some background information. Based on our market analysis, we made some initial calculations about the size of the massively multiplayer online games market in the United States. We then accounted for new customers to the genre based on our previous games. Looking over this data, we did believe that there was the potential for an extremely sizable interest in a Blizzard MMOG. According to our research, other successful MMOGs in the U.S. had achieved roughly 300,000 subscribers after 12 months of operation. What ended up happening with World of Warcraft is that we achieved double these numbers in approximately the first six weeks of launch. We absolutely can support the number of copies we put on shelves, but we believed it would take us longer to get to this number in terms of players purchasing the game and logging on.
We had not anticipated this amount of growth in such a short time; however, we did have a backup plan that was deployed rapidly. In the first week of launch, we more than doubled our number of game servers and server infrastructure to accommodate the demand. The fact that we had planned to grow the service over the first 12 months of operation was evident, as we had server hardware waiting to be deployed. We just anticipated that this server rollout would be gradual. Copies of the game were being purchased at a much faster rate than anticipated, so we had to abandon our slower-paced plan and go into rapid deployment to accommodate these additional customers. This meant we also had to advance our timetable for additional server purchases.
With such a rapid growth of the network, we started to see several bottlenecks in the infrastructure that exposed themselves very quickly when the expanded hardware immediately took on massive load. These bottlenecks were solvable, but they required additional upgrades to the backend systems to accommodate the load--which, again, we hadn't planned to see, even with the extreme estimates, until later in the year. Regardless, server stability has remained our number-one priority, and so we acquired and deployed even more equipment as part of the process of addressing these issues. All of this new hardware also required additional software and operating system upgrades on the backend. The problems that some players on the 20 or so most populated servers (out of the current total of 88 servers) have been experiencing are related to some of the upgrades not functioning as desired. We are working diligently with our vendors and internal technical staff to get as quick of a resolution to the problems as possible, and we believe there should be noticeable improvements soon. When our community team commented that people are working 24/7, they weren't exaggerating.
This is a total utter lie, i played the beta and the same problems still exist in the retail that they had in the beta. The only exception to this is that now the problems are worse.
2. If it's true that the server problems are related to the overwhelming number of players, why was no effort made to better distribute players evenly across realms, or allow players and guilds to transfer to less populated servers?
We actually did have a number of checks in place at launch to distribute players as evenly as possible across realms. When a new account logged in, the game would ask what realm rule set and time zone the player preferred, and then it would suggest the realm with the lowest population that matched the selected preferences. That said, we're definitely working on resolving the overpopulation problems that ended up occurring on some realms despite our preventative measures. A realm-transfer option that would allow pla
Its time to get some young blood in there!
I was at the store @ midnight! it was cool to be in a empty lagless server for the first 12 hrs..
Wow i really love this game but was pissed when i had to wait in line for an hour to play. I dont understand how they did not see this coming. They Boxed X number of games and have X number of slots/servers it seems like they over sold their capacity. That makes me mad!
How do you have that option i was in the last beta but i never heard of anthing like that?
RIGHT! people should post more stuff like this and bring it from the obscure to mainstream much faster...
this is a test of the emergency sig system.... this is only a test... BEEEEEEEEEEEEP
No. But that would be awesome. If only i could get Bush to follow me around like those little robots in DOOM 3. What i really was saying is that sounds like a political article in a nerd wrapper. It speaks more about the US's foreign policy then about the robots them selves... really if i want political commentary I will go to foxnews.com
Wow this seems less like a /. story and more like your normal leftist bush bashing....