cant connect..

[thrillskills]

i cant connect to wow, yet i can browse sites and stuff.. any one else have this problem.

[Dublo]

Neither can I.

I cannot access the official WoW website either.

Must be major major congestion killing the servers.

[thrillskills]

damn!! i was just about to do BFD.... and we had high lvl guys with us to run through it..

[Wolfpaq777]

same problem, I'll go delete the post I made about it.

[Elenduir]

Yup,

Same was heading to do LBRS got disconnected and now i cant connect back on :chinny:

[thrillskills]

this sucks

[nebby]

nope, I can't connect either- to either WoW or to the official site.

Bummer.

Maybe if we all pitch in to buy them some new hamsters....oh wait. We already do that...every month....hmmmm....more hamsters? :ash:

[thrillskills]

hamsters, ha, well im goin to bed goodnight~

[Nitojin]

geez wow stuffs up alot i tried to download patch but it stopped.... now i cant restart it.... :chinny:

[toadyrage]

Maybe massive patch downloads mucked some stuff up who knows. I was trying to download the patch the traditional way with no luck. Got it off fileshack in less than 2 minutes. LOL

Anyway, who knows. It sucks I was in game and got the boot in a bad spot. I hope I'm still alive when I can get back in.

[Tigo]

The ironic thing is that 30 minutes after the server went down, my friend was still in his Battleground game.

My PvE server dropped me, and his was still working so I thought it was just Suramar.

Nope, he's still playing.

After he started his BG instance thing, I noticed CONSIDERABLE lag on the network at work. It's super fast, but whatever he was doing slowed me to a crawl.

[turbocozmo]

Me too, I was tagging along with a bunch of lvl 45s (I'm a lvl 36) and we were fighting in a troll cave near booty bay. I wonder what will become of me. :bonk:

[Tigo]

Me too, I was tagging along with a bunch of lvl 45s (I'm a lvl 36) and we were fighting in a troll cave near booty bay. I wonder what will become of me. :bonk:

I'm not sure, Cozmo, but I am sure that the uncertainty of your fate in that cave will cause some serious sleep tonight.

Please tell us how it turns out. The Day the World Ended, I was standing in a small inn in Goldshire, purchasing a flask of wine.

[turbocozmo]

:lol: :lol:

I hope you don't come back from *the Day the World Ended* dead due to acohol poisoning.


oh no what will become of us :buddies:

[Asiram]

My level 26 NE Druid is going to be somewhere horrible when it starts up again, no doubt all alone too, I'm in Australia and the higher levels I was with are from America, they'll be happily sleeping away while I continually die to try and get myself out of there! hahaha Gonna be a fun ride that's for sure.

Hopefully it will be working again soon, bad bad addiction to have. hehe

[psimatrix]

A Warlock, I happened to be fighting an Elite to complete a quest that would give me my magical specialty. Ironically, I was doing fairly well and nearly finished whomping him... then the world froze.

I've heard of dramatic cliff hangers but this is just not right.

[toadyrage]

Well if anything I guess this down time has been great fro forum membership. Look at all the first time posters tonight including myself. :)

[construct]

Darn, was just about to enter a BG instance too....

[Arrinous]

No kidding about the forum registration.
I got the game recently, not complaining or anything just curious but, how many times has the server gone down like this?

[turbocozmo]

Well if anything I guess this down time has been great fro forum membership. Look at all the first time posters tonight including myself. :)


I finally thought probably like the rest of us, what better time to start posting than now.

[toadyrage]

No kidding about the forum registration.
I got the game recently, not complaining or anything just curious but, how many times has the server gone down like this?

I have had the game for about a month and this is the first time I have seen down time this long.

[Arrinous]

Yeah and a thought... what ARE we all doing up this late anyways on a weeknight...
lol anyone else sleeping alot more during the day now? lol

[akutai]

I was in the Northern Barrens BG when it locked up, but thank god! I had a rogue, mage, and a warlock attacking me. Thanks Blizzard, 15$/month life insurance, now that's sweet! I think I would've rather had Pedro's crew come clean those Alliance up however =)

btw...Nethrezim is the server I was on.

[turbocozmo]

Yeah and a thought... what ARE we all doing up this late anyways on a weeknight...
lol anyone else sleeping alot more during the day now? lol

Or, just not sleeping at all. :whistle:

[Araelius]

new members 4tw :D

[construct]

Yeah and a thought... what ARE we all doing up this late anyways on a weeknight...
lol anyone else sleeping alot more during the day now? lol
lol dude, my days have shifted about 8 hours. Get up around 2pm, go to sleep at about 6am. :happy34:

[Dublo]

Argh, still can't connect

[toadyrage]

Yeah and a thought... what ARE we all doing up this late anyways on a weeknight...
lol anyone else sleeping alot more during the day now? lol

I work nights in the summer so I am almost always on this alte. This is my rec time and damn it, its getting wrecked haha.

[akutai]

lol dude, my days have shifted about 8 hours. Get up around 2pm, go to sleep at about 6am. :happy34:

man, I've acquired the exact same schedule...it's kinda nice tho ;)

[toadyrage]

Argh, still can't connect

Been trying about every 5 minutes. I think I'm going tothrow in a DVD soon and then call it a night

[akutai]

don't give up man, it'll be up soon!

[RevLittlejohn]

Nicely done, I must say. After only 6 hours of bittorrent download (science these days! Thank GOD for bittorrent versus, say, releasing a finished game), I can no longer connect to Silverhand. On the plus side, I can neither check to see if silverhand is actually hammered again, or if the patch has destroyed my install given the fact that I also can't see the bliz site.

'Course, something tells me that my credit card will be hit without issue.

I'm running a really cutting-edge winXP box over dialup. Anybody else able to connect to SH post-patch? Sorry, shouldn't complain I know, as this has never happened before. Um...in the last 2 weeks.

[toadyrage]

Its not just one game server , can't even connect to the game. It's all down it seems. DVD time for me. I'll be back tomorrow.

[PeteFoss]

hi. long time member, 1st time poster.

i certainly hope someone at Blizzard scans these forums, cause i can't reach any "offical" sites. Blizzard, WoW, etc. and whatever source this sites uses for it's realm status is cut off as well. if there is any official word about the patch messing things up, i can't access anyplace to read it.

guess i'll go browse the item database and make a wish list... :wave:

[Splice]

Wow I finally got the patch. Spent 3 hours trying to use Blizzard downloader, read some posts about it and went to GameSpot (got the patch in 3 minutes then).

Now I try to connect... you know the rest

Anyway another new forum account for these guys lol :happy34:

[toadyrage]

I don't think the patch itself mucked things up because I got the patch and played for about an hour before the crash. I think maybe it's just thousands of people all trying to download a 49 meg patch at one time maybe caused some problems. Who knows? The internet tends to burp at times. This is just one of them I guess.

[Arrinous]

lol not sleeping is more like it... running like 36 hours days.... summer is killing me slowly...... lol
blizzard should reverse the game clock so we at least get a sense of what daylight is like :happy34:

[toadyrage]

reverse the game clock so we at least get a sense of what daylight is like :happy34:

HAHA I was thinking along the same lines last weekend when I was actually playing during the day and I was like, "Hey this looks cool during the day." So I thought it would be nice to let people pick their time zone so us night players could see day light at night hours. :uhhuh:

[PeteFoss]

nothing makes me feel inferior with my DSL than getting 2.00 kbs/sec (or less) with these patches. started it up before i went to work, expecting to help everybody out as a "peer" while i was gone. based on the volume uploaded, however, whatever crash occured wasn't too long after i finished. (unless i'm once again confused by the technology)

well, that's the last time for the official way for me...

[akutai]

I think maybe Blizzard got completely lagged out and their servers blew da f*c* up. I'd been on for about 8 hours playing with the new patch, the entire time there were huge lines waiting to get in on some BG action (nothing wrong with that cuz it's sweet), but to get an image of how bad the lag was, I was getting 6x the latency as normal while outside the entrance. I think they just couldn't handle it all, and there's NOOOO way possible they'd expect it to be that popular...yeah right...gratz Blizzard!

[Dublo]

Wouldnt it be insane if the servers literally blew up and lost all our characters?

There would be absolute havoc.

[toadyrage]

The funny thing is last night I saw a message talking about down time for server maintenence. I suppose that didn't go as planed. :winky47:

[akutai]

yeah, for all their money...and u know that is a LOT

[PeteFoss]

we used to be able to pick our time zone. then they disabled it. :frown:

[Arrinous]

no kidding i mean.. i could have told them everyone and their mom was going to try and get into bg......

[akutai]

that's just not very realistic :D

[bman]

This is just retarded I hate patches was just about to help a guildie in BFD:mad:

[bloodygeoff]

I'm in Australia and have played on and off without issue all day today - nice new tricks for my Warlock and non-orange Tailoring recipes.
Didn't notice any lag - just suddenly couldn't get on.

[toadyrage]

Like I said. I think the best thing about this downtime was for this forums membership. I know it got me in.

[akutai]

I must note that for the people currently having trouble with the patch, or did have trouble with it and didn't get to play any BG, all that crap is worth it. Lvl 60s are much happier people now...it's terrific.

[fireflash]

My dog reset my computer :(. My wife is still playing on her machine, and I cannot connect.

Not up all night here, still early in Hawaii

SCOTT

[Solberg]

Just wanted to say I'm able to get into the WoW forums directly, just not their main website
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com
In case anyone cares to try as well

[construct]

Wow, I just may get up and take care of a few bodily functions.

Haha, NOT. *resumes spamming password and hitting enter*

[akutai]

oooOOOooOOOOOOOOoooO

[toadyrage]

I must note that for the people currently having trouble with the patch, or did have trouble with it and didn't get to play any BG, all that crap is worth it. Lvl 60s are much happier people now...it's terrific.

I don't know how terrific it is if it crashes the whole game for everyone. :winky47:

[Splice]

ooh thanks Solberg

[Arrinous]

so the capture the flag theme didnt turn out to be gay?
how many players per side are they allowing during the game?
juuust curious... since i wont know till a level.... alot lol

[xiaolin]

Yup, in the middle of zf, with probably the best thrown-together 5-man I have been in in quite some time, then...... *blink*...... d/c'ed, and cannot connect.
Played a couple hours, so I doubt it was the patch.
All I can say is this sucks. If it is down for all of my normal playing time, I will consider petitioning Blizzard to delay my monthly payment for a day to make up for it.

[turbocozmo]

Wow, I just may get up and take care of a few bodily functions.


That's what trips to and from Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdome are for :happy14:

[akutai]

yeah i'm not sure, which outweighs the other, but i was waiting 10 minutes - 2 hours to get into BG today. maybe i'm a freak, but who cares it was fun!

[construct]

Hey, saw this thread in the server status forums. Dated for today, posted about 20 mins ago by an official spokesperson:

We're working hard to address the issues adversely affecting login to the game, and very much appreciate your patience in this matter. If you're unable to connect, please wait a few minutes in between each attempt. - Caydiem -
Assistant Community Manager

[MatWithOneT]

Finally decided I had enough free time to start playing WoW again since the Beta, so yesterday I went out and picked up a copy... between the install, downloading every patch released, server maintenance, and now this, I have gotten to play a whopping 3 hours in the 48 hours I have owned the game.

[Dublo]

The only upside to this is Blizzard will give us a day free.

[Arrinous]

i wonder what poor couple of guys at blizzards night team are crapping in the their pants right now lol... or who spilt their coffee lol just imagine what happend when they started seeing the realms drop lol

[akutai]

okay, we'll be sure to try every few minutes for how many hours. i have a strong suspicion(sp?) it's gonna be down for a while.

[toadyrage]

Finally decided I had enough free time to start playing WoW again since the Beta, so yesterday I went out and picked up a copy... between the install, downloading every patch released, server maintenance, and now this, I have gotten to play a whopping 3 hours in the 48 hours I have owned the game.

I would not sweat it really. I have had the game for a month (waited till finals were over like a smart student) and this is the first time I have seen a drag like this. Other games I have seen worse.

[akutai]

i wonder what poor couple of guys at blizzards night team are crapping in the their pants right now lol... or who spilt their coffee lol just imagine what happend when they started seeing the realms drop lol

yeah that's funny, i'm sure they are crapping their pants. in their georgio armani boxers those rich bastards.

[MatWithOneT]

I would not sweat it really. I have had the game for a month (waited till finals were over like a smart student) and this is the first time I have seen a drag like this. Other games I have seen worse.

So what you're saying is that I probably broke the game. Sorry everyone... my bad.

[turbocozmo]

okay, we'll be sure to try every few minutes for how many hours. i have a strong suspicion(sp?) it's gonna be down for a while.

You might have something there...

http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/BranchWebsites/SouthWarwickshire/pictures/sherlock%202.gif

[Arrinous]

yeah lol college was the ONLY reason i waited to get this game so long... i knew it would be too much of a lesson in time management to be enjoyable lol

[Araelius]

We're working hard to address the issues adversely affecting login to the game, and very much appreciate your patience in this matter. If you're unable to connect, please wait a few minutes in between each attempt. - Caydiem -
Assistant Community Manager
I don't know if I can wait :P

[toadyrage]

So what you're saying is that I probably broke the game. Sorry everyone... my bad.

HAHA Sure, we can blame it on you. LOL

[construct]

yeah that's funny, i'm sure they are crapping their pants. in their georgio armani boxers those rich bastards.
They probably haven't noticed yet, they are too busy swimming in their olympic sized swimming pool full of 100 dollar bills.

[akutai]

They probably haven't noticed yet, they are too busy swimming in their olympic sized swimming pool full of 100 dollar bills.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAH

[turbocozmo]

They probably haven't noticed yet, they are too busy swimming in their olympic sized swimming pool full of 100 dollar bills.


Or trying to catch the beagle boys

[akutai]

Or trying to catch the beagle boys

that went right over my head

[MatWithOneT]

yeah lol college was the ONLY reason i waited to get this game so long... i knew it would be too much of a lesson in time management to be enjoyable lol

I miss my old job when my time management problem was dividing my work day between playing beta WoW and beta Driv3r and beta MK: Deception. Graduating college has been my worst career move ever.

[construct]

Remember Uncle Scrooge? DuckTales? C'MON!!!

[akutai]

wow i bet that was nice.

[akutai]

Remember Uncle Scrooge? DuckTales? C'MON!!!

whoa...that's way in my past man. i almost smoked all those memories away.

[Arrinous]

lol could have been a philosophy major... i think their objective is actually to stay in college their whole life.... because... after the years required to get the degree... and the phd's and stuff.... what do you do with it but... become a philosophy teacher.... lol ........ j/k to you philosophy majors....

[construct]

whoa...that's way in my past man. i almost smoked all those memories away.
:happy34: Don't feel bad, I had to googled it myself.

[MatWithOneT]

Remember Uncle Scrooge? DuckTales? C'MON!!!

Wow... did anyone get that reference without the clue? I remember it now, but that's not exactly where your mind first jumps to if its not 1992. What was that robotic duck sidekick's name again?

[construct]

Great, now the theme song is stuck in my head.

"DuckTales! wooOOOooh!"

[Arrinous]

no kidding... didnt get it at first either... when someone gets a connect... be kind enough to post it here... im giving up, resorting to watching tv and talking on here...

[Killing Frenzy]

Well, just like everyone else in this thread the downtime has made me finally sign up to post here... Wait. Oh, thats right, I have posted here before.


It must have only been seconds before the servers messed up that my computer froze. I got that dreaded blue screen out of nowhere when i was doing a little PvP. So I restarted my computer and couldn't connect. I suspected it was my worthless pice of scrap metal on my desk so I tried everything to get it working again! Good thing I decided to check here and found out it was doing this for everyone. What a time for my computer to act weird. Not only does it mess up by freezing, but it has the most evil timing I have ever seen.

[Arrinous]

its the "ghost in the machine" lol

[Krawler]

Still cant connect, 5:45pm Aussie time :S

Anyone else a little peeved? I got no problem with monthly fees to ensure the continuation and progression of the game.... But damn, 15US a month for downtime? I can get that for free using Telstra :P

[turbocozmo]

Remember Uncle Scrooge? DuckTales? C'MON!!!

:idea:

You indeed are a genius.

For those of you who didn't get it, a quick lesson.
http://www.serienoldies.de/images6/ducktales_main.jpg
Scrooge McDuck - rich millionaire

http://photos2.flickr.com/2132491_27e0405cd6_o.gif
Beagle Boys - crooks

class dismissed.

[akutai]

check it out...blast from the past wowwww

http://ducktales.freeservers.com/pictures/group.gif

[MatWithOneT]

Anyone here ever play to old text based MajorMUD... that never had downtime... and a bowl of soup used to cost a nickel.

[Elenduir]

"Slap" Jeporday theme song hits my unconscious mind :surprise: because waiting on login server to get back up....Damm you Blizzard

[MatWithOneT]

:idea:

You indeed are a genius.

For those of you who didn't get it, a quick lesson.
Scrooge McDuck - rich millionaire

Beagle Boys - crooks

class dismissed.

Yes, but what about the robotic duck? or the one that flew the plane for that matter?

[turbocozmo]

Yes, but what about the robotic duck? or the one that flew the plane for that matter?

Oh, what was his name....

Launch Pad was the dumb pilot, but I can't think of that engineers name :spy:

[akutai]

omg man, that game was so sweet. leave your guy macroed 24/7 and he'd lvl and get drops and everything for you however you set him. even pvp, and on top of that you could make more than 1 character to party together! you don't still play that horrid game do u?

[quibbler]

First we have to deal with 900ms+ latency because Blizzard put the update servers in the same place as the game servers, and now we have the whole game go down? This kind of incompetence is getting a little old...

[aviendha]

Sure wish they would test a bit more before patching. Seems the game is always unstable for 2-3 days after....
:grr:

[akutai]

then they release the patch for the patch..how sad is that?

[turbocozmo]

Welcome the the my 1st post was on *the Day the World Ended* club, quibbler

:happy34:

[Arrinous]

this is starting to get rather rediculous timewise....

[MatWithOneT]

omg man, that game was so sweet. leave your guy macroed 24/7 and he'd lvl and get drops and everything for you however you set him. even pvp, and on top of that you could make more than 1 character to party together! you don't still play that horrid game do u?

I did til I switched to a Mac... its a great game if you love staring at screens of text while your computer plays for you.

[construct]

Oh, what was his name....

Launch Pad was the dumb pilot, but I can't think of that engineers name :spy:
Why, do you mean this guy?
http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/chars/pics/gyro.gif
Gyro Gearloose FTW.

[akutai]

yeah...3 more hours to play before sleep, and i dunt think i'll be playing.

[turbocozmo]

Ya, that's his name and I think the other guy we were trying to think of was Gizmo Duck, am I right?

[Tigo]

Actually, the server crashed due to everyone logging in simultaneously to see the new icon for Mage's Frost Armor (or whatever Mage spell it was).

[Arrinous]

yeaaaahhh gizmo duck sounds familiar i think thats it

[MatWithOneT]

Ya, that's his name and I think the other guy we were trying to think of was Gizmo Duck, am I right?

Gizmo!!! Now all I need is the server to be back up and I will have lived a full life.

[akutai]

Actually, the server crashed due to everyone logging in simultaneously to see the new icon for Mage's Frost Armor (or whatever Mage spell it was).

lol i think you're probably right on that. new "unique" icon, nothing better!

[Arrinous]

Actually, the server crashed due to everyone logging in simultaneously to see the new icon for Mage's Frost Armor (or whatever Mage spell it was).

lol is that your final answer? :scratch:

[fireflash]

Once again.. the game is still up and running.. my wife is still playing on her machine.. I can hear her and see her at the auction house. There are other people in the game. She says there are lots of people around.

I still cant log back in..

SCOTT

[turbocozmo]

Too bad all you guys aren't on boulderfist or we would definitely have a /dance party. Drinks all around.

[TheTacoMan]

gyro was the engineer guy, gizmoduck (phanton crackshell) was the robot duck. Man, i used to love that show when i was a kid, i watched it relegiously. Anyway, i got home from an exam thinking i'd kill a bit of time playing the battlegrounds. Dl'd the patch, hopped over to warsong gultch. Got in line, but it said there was an hour, so i thought i might as well head down to un'goro and finish up some quests. I was halfway to tanaris on the wind rider when the world ended lol

[troykapet]

I have not had the game that long, but frankly like the other poster said. There is no reason they should have all the servers connected. They are getting more than enough money to have their patch/game/website servers on separate dedicated connections. Frankly the servers should probably all be on different nodes/providers for just this type of instance. Short and long of it, this should not have happened. I am internet tech for competitive LEC, and man do I have so many ways to make this not happen twice. My biggest fear is something serious has happened like hacking or DOS attack. I am sure we will find out tomorrow. Anyone from Blizzard reading this, take heed. :idea:

[akutai]

who let her in the forums?

[Splice]

/me creates a macro that types my password for me

[Arrinous]

well at least we know they arent crashed completely....
just..... for most of us lol

[construct]

Ya, that's his name and I think the other guy we were trying to think of was Gizmo Duck, am I right?
http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/chars/pics/newton.gif
Newton?

[Krawler]

Dont suppose the non-connects are limited to any particular grouping?

Be it people in Aus/people with recent join times/people with latest version(or older version) of the game/etc?

[ScytheNoire]

i think Blizzard will be giving out another free day here. i don't expect to be playing the game for a few days, since things will be so bad for a while.

[akutai]

I'm in the USA, had been playing for bout 8 hours, and it was version 1.5.
In BG when it happened.

[Splice]

I'm Canadian in Toronto

[Dublo]

Still cant connect, 5:45pm Aussie time :S

Anyone else a little peeved? I got no problem with monthly fees to ensure the continuation and progression of the game.... But damn, 15US a month for downtime? I can get that for free using Telstra :P
Yeah I'm abit angry. I havent been able to play yet today.

[fireflash]

I doubt it is any specific segment that is disallowed.. since my wife is on. I think I was on while most of you were trying to log in. I only got booted cause my dog jumped against the reset switch.. then I couldnt get back on. My wife never got off.

SCOTT

[Charron]

Withdrawls!!!! ARRRGHHHHH! :surprise: I need my Warcrack!!!!!



mmmmm......sleeeeeeep

Here's to the game being up tomorrow! :buddies:

[akutai]

I doubt it is any specific segment that is disallowed.. since my wife is on. I think I was on while most of you were trying to log in. I only got booted cause my dog jumped against the reset switch.. then I couldnt get back on. My wife never got off.

SCOTT

hey scott, what server is your wife on? ...and are you on the same server as her?

[troykapet]

I did just patch the game after downloading from fileplanet. Bit t is just stupid. I played for about 30 minutes getting me some tusks in Booty B when the server crashed. I am sure I will be dead when I come back. SO answer is, I think this was random. I think they either reached their maximum bandwidth or their peering point with a major provider is now maxed. Just guess, but we will probably never know.

[turbocozmo]

it's doggie payback time

http://www.callingalldogs.com/products/instyle/RainWearL.jpg

You'll shame him into never bothering you again.

[akutai]

it's doggie payback time

http://www.callingalldogs.com/products/instyle/RainWearL.jpg

You'll shame him into never bothering you again.
he's scary

[Arrinous]

lol warcrack for real...
maybe some of the mirrors were distributing a screwed up patch? p2p thing on blizzard started distrubing after the mirror people were on? cascading?
lol dont know if a mirror could do that but just a random thought from a not entirely educated guess

[fireflash]

We play on Hajal (from Hawaii)

SCOTT

[Krawler]

My wife never got off.


:whistle: ........

[akutai]

i was thinking the same thing but come on, leave the dude alone.

[troykapet]

LOL

Since I got this game that is for sure....my wife hates this game hahahahahah

[troykapet]

FROM OFFICIAL WOW FORUM


2. Re: Login Issues - 6/8 UPDATE 1:05AM | 6/8/2005 1:05:31 AM PDT


The login issues should be resolved in approximately three hours. We will keep you up to date on the situation as things change. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Caydiem -
Assistant Community Manager

[Stuffed]

Wonder if i can up my skinning lvl with the dog while i wait?

[akutai]

come on guys, we can make a difference. keep posting here like mad...and we can crash the worldofwar.net forums as well!

[Arrinous]

Yeah i hate it when it becomes like an enemy to the wives/girlfriends.... lol almost takes the fun out of playing it..............................................almost................ :whistle:

[akutai]

FROM OFFICIAL WOW FORUM


2. Re: Login Issues - 6/8 UPDATE 1:05AM | 6/8/2005 1:05:31 AM PDT


The login issues should be resolved in approximately three hours. We will keep you up to date on the situation as things change. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Caydiem -
Assistant Community Manager
3 hours...that's freakin terrific, considering that's when i need to go to sleep.

[troykapet]

LOL

yeah, but this time I don't think the users caused it

[Krawler]

I only bought it two days ago... Felt sick in the arvo and knew I was gonna be off the next day, so I made sure I grabbed a copy to keep me entertained while I was off work :P

Got a level 10 and a level 9, think I'll stick with the level 10, druids are fun.

[Arrinous]

Wonder if i can up my skinning lvl with the dog while i wait?

lol hilarious.... i lmao at that lol

yeah... i was thinking the same about these servers... was waiting on them to crash too lol

[akutai]

I only bought it two days ago... Felt sick in the arvo and knew I was gonna be off the next day, so I made sure I grabbed a copy to keep me entertained while I was off work :P

Got a level 10 and a level 9, think I'll stick with the level 10, druids are fun.

are you alliance or horde?

[turbocozmo]

Wonder if i can up my skinning lvl with the dog while i wait?

hehehe :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Arrinous]

is anyone here on shadowsong?

[akutai]

everyone constantly hit F5

[construct]

Seriously, Krawler - that webcomic is the freakiest one I've seen.

*points to your avatar*

[quibbler]

Troykapet is correct here... this is NOT how servers are run. People who do this professionally (maybe Blizzard is just a hobby?) don't tollerate downtime like this. Three hours? ..to fix what? Blizzard, it goes like this: fire server people, anyone else would.

[troykapet]

I can honestly say that until this moment I didn';t realize just how addicted I was. We need HELP!

I am so worried about the first aid, the fishing (well not so much), and the leatherworking skill I am missing out on.

Next thing you know we will be buying wives from Russia, oh wait. :)

I don't care what anybody says, WOW TO THE DEATH!!!!!

[turbocozmo]

Is that that salad fingers guy?

Bananaphone > *

[Splice]

everyone constantly hit F5

lol I'm doing just that. this thread is quite entertaining :lol:

[Arrinous]

this is the point where some smartass says .... its just a game

gotta give blizzard props for creating something that can cause so many people to become so enveloped

[turbocozmo]

... it's just a game ...


:ash: :ash:

[akutai]

god you n00b5, get a l1f3, it's just @ g4m3!

[troykapet]

I must agree

[aviendha]

I build servers for a living. 99.998% uptime over an entire year is common. Blizzard is having more than a problem, their architecture if flawed. You build multiple redundant systems, and it is crazy that problems effect all realms...

[jimmymcbride]

I just tried to install WoW and begin playing but couldn't connect, I thought it was a problem on my side and spent hours tweeking my computer, to no positive end. I am actually happy to see that others are having problems, as bad as that sounds.

[DivineBovine]

Blizzard's Servers made my dog piss on the floor. :(

[Arrinous]

this is bad for blizzard.... lol like a drug dealer when hes outta drugs... people realize how bad it is for them and get off of it......... only to come right back begging for more in a week...................

[akutai]

Blizzard's Servers made my dog piss on the floor. :(

glad i wasn't the only one

[Annaiya]

Yeah i hate it when it becomes like an enemy to the wives/girlfriends.... lol almost takes the fun out of playing it..............................................almost................ :whistle:


See, I keep telling my husband that if he'd just play the game too, we could spend time in-game and he wouldn't mind me playing ever spare minute I have. He didn't seem to agree...I thought it was a brilliant idea. :innocent:

[turbocozmo]

Welcome Jimmy and DivineB pull up a chair, this is the place to be for the next 3 hours :lol:

[Colovion]

http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/rough/hanged.gif

[quibbler]

A 'game' is something you play on a board with friends drinking coffee. This stopped being a game somewhere between it becomming online-only and where we started to pay a subscription fee. This is more like any other entertainment service. As such, downtime is NOT very well tollerated.

As for a free day? BS I want my full rest bonus, then we'll talk about whether the server admins get force fed a unix-for-dummies book or not.

[Quyaan]

Yeah i hate it when it becomes like an enemy to the wives/girlfriends.... lol almost takes the fun out of playing it..............................................almost................ :whistle:


My wife says I'm boring.......World of Warcraft IS the other woman.... :happy14:

[akutai]

A 'game' is something you play on a board with friends drinking coffee. This stopped being a game somewhere between it becomming online-only and where we started to pay a subscription fee. This is more like any other entertainment service. As such, downtime is NOT very well tollerated.

As for a free day? BS I want my full rest bonus, then we'll talk about whether the server admins get force fed a unix-for-dummies book or not.

awesome...total agreement

[Sadinweaver]

:( i was looking forward to being in a time warp all night long....its 1:20 am now and the last two hours have been soooooooooo looooooooonnnng and booooorrrinnngg. I am 10 gold an 1 lvl away from getting my mount.....crap :(. Seriously though, since I moved from Frostwolf to Gurubashi a few weeks ago this is the first time I have not been able to log on, and it doesnt seem to be a realm specific problem. On the plus side we may look forward to a ton of rested xp and possibly a day or two free play time. I rememeber a few months back when we were awarded 25k rested xp (at lvl 30 or so) after the servers were down for a while.

It couldnt have happened at a worse time for me...Just starting SM cathedral with a great group....shaman (me), rogue, warrior, druid, hunter. Too bad I wont evvvveeeeerrrrr be able to reuinte with them again.

[Arrinous]

i think that might be part of the "downtime is acceptable" thing...
its just a game....

[construct]

Let's all go get Guild Wars!

[troykapet]

OK, I have waited long enough. I have drunk all my beer, and I have read the posts. We are screwed till daylight my time EST. I must get munchies and rest. A whole day of WOW awaits me tomorrow. I just feel reassured, in this age of techno sociology, that others experience what I do LOL. L8TR GUYS, HOPE TO PVP YOU LATER!

:)
Troyka

PS hapily accepting all blue/purple items that are not needed/wanted

[akutai]

how bout we don't go get guildwars, and say we did?

[DivineBovine]

we need more female gamers. Blizzard would run and hide if they had 500,000 female gamers with PMS on them.

[turbocozmo]

My wife says I'm boring.......World of Warcraft IS the other woman.... :happy14:


http://www.riley.d21.k12.il.us/images/TLC/computer_love.jpeg

aww you make a cute couple :love:

[Killing Frenzy]

Yeah i hate it when it becomes like an enemy to the wives/girlfriends.... lol almost takes the fun out of playing it..............................................al most................

My girlfriend couldn't stand WoW when I first got it. Always saying stuff about me caring more about my stupid game then her. Pft! Cmon! I just sit there and listen to her half the time anyways so why can't I do that while playing the game. :uhhuh:


The trick is to get them addicted. Then they realize how much your life becomes intertwined with it and they won't get so mad when you play it alot. But then they get just as addicted as you! Then they start hogging all of your gaming time!!!! AHHHH! You can't win!

[Arrinous]

yeah this game seriously is a timewarp... but ive gotten used to thinking an hour has passed... and its been 5.... lol

[akutai]

and the female characters would all have the rage ability once a month :D

[bman]

I hope we get some good rest XP out of this because i am 10k from 38 and a whole level of rest XP would get me to 40 that much faster. :happy53:

[Elwyndrinthedream]

"The login issues should be resolved in approximately three hours. We will keep you up to date on the situation as things change. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Caydiem -
Assistant Community Manager "


I feel like gnawing on a Murloc or something.... meh.

[Arrinous]

and the female characters would all have the rage ability once a month :D

if we had more people with a sense of humor in this world lol that would be really funny... they could have a crazy rage ablilty for a few days out of the month lol ....

[akutai]

post #179....wow

[patelamber]

i have never seen a forum build so fast happy to share the frustration guys
and gals

[akutai]

if we had more people with a sense of humor in this world lol that would be really funny... they could have a crazy rage ablilty for a few days out of the month lol ....

the trouble the company would get into for that!...they would've gotten forced to fix the game. wha?!

[Arrinous]

id like a specific detalied explanation as to what happend... why it happend... and whats being done to make it not happen again.... lol personally as a paying customer....

[Sadinweaver]

This owntime spoiled my evening... :( I think it stopped being just a game when we all started pouring our heart and soul into it. I dont know about you all, but my total estimated time played (on several characters) is about 35-37 days...x24hours= O_o around 860+hours. Now thats a lot of time. Kinda sick if u really think about it. How many girls could I have been bangin instead of hitting on naked night elfs dancing on the bridge in IF? :lol:

[DivineBovine]

I hope we get some good rest XP out of this because i am 10k from 38 and a whole level of rest XP would get me to 40 that much faster. :happy53:


yeah and they should throw in a free toaster, or a Happy Meal™ from McDonalds®

I'm tired of eating Ramen all the time. being a broke ass student sucks.

[akutai]

never in a million years would blizzard do that

[Quyaan]

See, I keep telling my husband that if he'd just play the game too, we could spend time in-game and he wouldn't mind me playing ever spare minute I have. He didn't seem to agree...I thought it was a brilliant idea. :innocent:

I told my wife the same thing .... she said she should divorce me....Cause I'm boooring.............Maybe we would make a good match....lol :winky47:

[Dublo]

yeah and they should throw in a free toaster, or a Happy Meal™ from McDonalds®

I'm tired of eating Ramen all the time. being a broke ass student sucks.
lol that reminds me of Cowboy Bebop.

[akutai]

This owntime spoiled my evening... :( I think it stopped being just a game when we all started pouring our heart and soul into it. I dont know about you all, but my total estimated time played (on several characters) is about 35-37 days...x24hours= O_o around 860+hours. Now thats a lot of time. Kinda sick if u really think about it. How many girls could I have been bangin instead of hitting on naked night elfs dancing on the bridge in IF? :lol:
but...night elves are so damn sexy!

[patelamber]

where did u get the 3 hour message

[DivineBovine]

id like a specific detalied explanation as to what happend... why it happend... and whats being done to make it not happen again.... lol personally as a paying customer....



what happened? we decided to make it patch day.

[turbocozmo]

Glad to have you join in our WoW support group Bman, Elwyn, pate, quyaan and sadin.

Feel free to express your sadness and frustration, (as long as it's somewhat funny) :innocent:

[Kaanin]

"The login issues should be resolved in approximately three hours. We will keep you up to date on the situation as things change. Our apologies for the inconvenience."

Where did you get that? Is that offical? And when was it posted?
Gah this is horrible!

[MatWithOneT]

Only 2.5 Hours until Blizzard gives us a post about how they are revising their estimate until the server is up and running!!!

:happy65:

[quibbler]

Here's my $.02:

Guild Wars and the rest are MMORPG's. WoW is not.

Blizzard has created a Leviathan here, a fusion of a MMORPG and a RTS. Life begins at lvl 60, and as of the last patch the thing is finally actually getting to where you can really play. Everything up to BattleGrounds is basically training. This IS the World of Warcraft. This is about playing Warcraft III basically as a hero.

I don't for a minute belittle the genius game designers that exist within Blizzard. What I criticize is their gross incompetence at hiring admins/techs. These aren't 'good' mistakes, I've seen nothing but 'bad' mistakes here. Time after time, they screw up in a way that should have been prevented. Its sad that these geniuses have to watch their world be screwed by technical morons.

[akutai]

http://ducktales.freeservers.com/pictures/group.gif

[troykapet]

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-status&t=1375&p=1&tmp=1#post1375

I was supposed to go find munchies, stop asking questions LOL

WOW forums are still up, just everything else is down.

[Sadinweaver]

but...night elves are so damn sexy!

and the way they move their hips while dancing....yumm...they gotta put in a strip club in Ashenvale.

[Arrinous]

where did u get the 3 hour message
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.aspx?fn=wow-realm-status

and yeah... what a place to look for a potential girl/guy lol if you play this game and you get along in game.... i think that would end up being a pretty good match lol... most of your time would be spent on WoW anyways... lol espeically if there are no complaints between each other

[Killing Frenzy]

I dont know about you all, but my total estimated time played (on several characters) is about 35-37 days...x24hours= O_o around 860+hours. Now thats a lot of time. Kinda sick if u really think about it. How many girls could I have been bangin instead of hitting on naked night elfs dancing on the bridge in IF?

My god, I almost wet myself when I read that!

[DivineBovine]

and the way they move their hips while dancing....yumm...they gotta put in a strip club in Ashenvale.

they make my pee-pee go, da dong dong dong!

[turbocozmo]

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-realm-status&t=1375&p=1&tmp=1#post1375

I was supposed to go find munchies, stop asking questions LOL

WOW forums are still up, just everything else is down.


So what was your late night delicacy? Hopefully not roasted dog.

[akutai]

Here's my $.02:

Guild Wars and the rest are MMORPG's. WoW is not.

Blizzard has created a Leviathan here, a fusion of a MMORPG and a RTS. Life begins at lvl 60, and as of the last patch the thing is finally actually getting to where you can really play. Everything up to BattleGrounds is basically training. This IS the World of Warcraft. This is about playing Warcraft III basically as a hero.

I don't for a minute belittle the genius game designers that exist within Blizzard. What I criticize is their gross incompetence at hiring admins/techs. These aren't 'good' mistakes, I've seen nothing but 'bad' mistakes here. Time after time, they screw up in a way that should have been prevented. Its sad that these geniuses have to watch their world be screwed by technical morons.

said as best as possible....props Quibbler

[Annaiya]

I told my wife the same thing .... she said she should divorce me....Cause I'm boooring.............Maybe we would make a good match....lol :winky47:

LOL...they just don't get it do they?

[akutai]

what do you think is the max forum reply here?

[DivineBovine]

LOL...they just don't get it do they?
my wife told me it was either her or the computer.... as you see I am here. unless it's my wife i'm typing on.

[aviendha]

Just logged in: doomhammer.
cheers

[patelamber]

:love57: :love57: :love57:

[Everyusernameistaken]

WOW (HA! Pun unintended)

In the time that it took me to join up to these forums, another 2 pages worth of posts were made! Granted, it took me a while to come up with a username that WASNT taken, so finally came up with the one i've got now, heh.

Btw, has anyone here actually bought Guildwars and played it? Is it any good?

Oh and its still early in the evening for Australia! Still time woohoo. :bigclap:

[troykapet]

Just a guess, but I do not think whichever geek who owns this website was expecting the traffic tonight LOL

[Arrinous]

what do you think is the max forum reply here?

i think we might find out if there is one.... lol

[Sadinweaver]

Quote:
I dont know about you all, but my total estimated time played (on several characters) is about 35-37 days...x24hours= O_o around 860+hours. Now thats a lot of time. Kinda sick if u really think about it. How many girls could I have been bangin instead of hitting on naked night elfs dancing on the bridge in IF?


My god, I almost wet myself when I read that!

I almost wet myself when I calculated that. My god is right.

[patelamber]

elune be praised

[MatWithOneT]

Just logged in: doomhammer.
cheers

Now watch it crash again as 2000 of us simultaneously try to log in.

[akutai]

props to blizzard for getting it done in less than their ETA(quality), looks like a lot of servers are up now....GO PLAY BG!

[turbocozmo]

is this the last reply?

[Elwyndrinthedream]

haha! I met my husband on FFXI. We recently gave up that cruddy game and moved to WoW, we both fell so head over heels with the game that we bought a second PC just so we could play together.

Leasson: Save time and grief. Just marry your leveling party members =P

[Ellestor]

Here's my $.02:

Guild Wars and the rest are MMORPG's. WoW is not. Guild Wars is not an MMORPG. It is just like any other Diabloesque RPG, except its lobbies are 3D.

[quibbler]

The world is comming back up.... slowly server by server, go check yours...

[Arrinous]

no... this is.... see yah guys was fun... thnx for the entertainment

orr... have i spoken too soon...

[Craytos]

well, this reeeeeally sucks, not only can i not play, but i'm going to be going away for about a week and planned on getting some super rest time, now thats all screwed cuz of tech problems. i have to leave before 7am, hopefully its up by then so i can hearth and log. but otherwise i'm totally screwed out of this rest time that i won't be getting. :muddle:

at least i was the last to play the battlegrounds on dragonblight :skull:

oh well the wait continues........

[bman]

Just logged on :happy14:

[akutai]

WOW (HA! Pun unintended)

In the time that it took me to join up to these forums, another 2 pages worth of posts were made! Granted, it took me a while to come up with a username that WASNT taken, so finally came up with the one i've got now, heh.

Btw, has anyone here actually bought Guildwars and played it? Is it any good?

Oh and its still early in the evening for Australia! Still time woohoo. :bigclap:

Yeah a friend of mine plays it...it's really wierd. Nothing like WoW cuz once you leave town you don't see ANYONE, eliminates the excitement of PvP completely...lame in my opinion. (EDIT: Explain...you leave town, and it becomes what you'd call in WoW as an instance, the entire world is designated to only you and your party...no chance of contact at all)

[Ellestor]

Yes, the login server and the play servers are up... but what is funny is that each server is beng listed 2-8 times.

And my characters are not there.

[turbocozmo]

Oh ya and, remember big party right here next time the server crashes :bigclap: :bigclap: :bigclap:

[quibbler]

Guild Wars is not an MMORPG. It is just like any other Diabloesque RPG, except its lobbies are 3D.

Good point... how about insert 'or less' after MMORPG in my original post...

[akutai]

but what's real funny...is i login..it says Success!, and stops there...

[Arrinous]

word to that... ill be here...

[MatWithOneT]

Yes, the login server and the play servers are up... but what is funny is that each server is beng listed 2-8 times.

For those of us still trying to d-load the patch - Downloader still not fully up to par yet. I am downloading at a whopping 1.1kB/sec... I should be ready to log back in sometime next week!

[akutai]

Oh ya and, remember big party right here next time the server crashes :bigclap: :bigclap: :bigclap:

HELL YES! BYOB next time!

[patelamber]

my characters are missing :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

[turbocozmo]

but what's real funny...is i login..it says Success!, and stops there...


I'm getting similar results, I think it just means that our particular server isn't back up yet. :scratch:

[Sadinweaver]

Search on yahoo or google for another web site to download the patch from. It's the only real fast and reliable manner for many.

[MatWithOneT]

my characters are missing :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

God... working realms AND characters? Jeez, you just want everything, don't ya?

[Elwyndrinthedream]

Same here >.> I can log in but no characters. What's weird is that when I got to Change Realm I can see the number of characters per realm but they're not actually there.

[bman]

My guy on Smolderthorn is missing but I can play on Magtheridon or Bonechewer with my other characters :ash:

[turbocozmo]

my characters are missing :scratch: :scratch: :scratch:

Don't do anything yet, I had this problem before, it just means that your server isn't back on yet, but it should be soon.

[patelamber]

gamespot.com

[DivineBovine]

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/wowpatch/WoW-1.4.2.4375-to-1.5.0-enUS-patch.exe

someone say patch?

[Craytos]

The world is comming back up.... slowly server by server, go check yours...


hez right hellscream is up for sure and it looks like dragonblight is up next WH0000TT

wheew now i don't have to worry about that rest problem i was going to have

[patelamber]

Don't do anything yet, I had this problem before, it just means that your server isn't back on yet, but it should be soon.

tytyty :thanks: :thanks: :thanks:

[Krawler]

Woah... I had a quick feed (read: 10mins) and this thread jumped 10 pages.

Are you sure WOW isnt down because worldofwar.net admin are DDOS'ing it, just to get more forum members? :P

I'm off to try the game... Give a hoi if you see me, "crafted" is the nick. Buggered if I know what server, I cant remember those crazy RPG names with fifteen syllables, all of which are made by 12 constanants seperated by a single vowel.

[Moralinh]

Hey guys,
Took a break from WoW for almost 2 months, finally gave in to my temptation and reinstalled it. Only to find nothing works! Then stumbling onto this thread I realise there are others out there that can't get in either. Whew! Makes me feel better actually.

And a comment about GuildWars, I played it for about a week ad got really bored of it, does not even come close to WoW. It is very instance based and the world is not persistant. It feels like your playing diablo on a private server pretty much.

[Arrinous]

wheew now i don't have to worry about that rest problem i was going to have

yeah ... now this just means ill sleep less....

[pumpkinhead]

Hehe yet another newb due to the downtime tonight. Damn, I had to go to bed early last night and was looking forward to playing until daylight tonight. Oh well, I see some of the servs are coming back up; better go check mine.

Cheers! :uhhuh:

[turbocozmo]

ya, now we just have to worry about the rest problem we're all gonna have :lol:

[quibbler]

Assuming (gasp) the stupid servers *don't* stay up, if you *do* get in, get to a city/inn ASAP and kick around managing inventory or whatever. If Blizzard gives us a full rest bonus cool... but if they don't, and things go down again, better to get your zzz's.

[MatWithOneT]

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/wowpatch/WoW-1.4.2.4375-to-1.5.0-enUS-patch.exe

someone say patch?

Is there a link for the Mac patch somewhere on that site? Those .exe files scare my computer

[Krawler]

This... is dissapointing:

http://www.filedump.net/Uploads/Temp/wow_doh.jpg

DOWNLOAD DAMN YOU, DOWNLOAD!

[DivineBovine]

Is there a link for the Mac patch somewhere on that site? Those .exe files scare my computer

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/wowpatch/WoW-1.4.2.4375-to-1.5.0-enUS-patch.app.tgz

[Ellestor]

For anyone behind a router, I suggest that you forward ports 6112, 3724, and 6881-6999. It should help tremendously.