WEST COAST REALMS - DOWN 24 HOURS

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » March 11, 2005, 1:28 pm

Before reading this and flipping out... its a good thing to happen. It will fix out issues.

For those of you not on these affected servers... BITE ME! --hehe

Regarding Recent Realm Performance – 3/10/05 | 3/10/2005 6:58:11 PM PST

Last night, certain realms experienced a hardware failure that forced us to perform emergency maintenance. We were able to implement a temporary fix to the problem this morning that allowed players to log on to these realms and play. Unfortunately, players continued to experience performance issues throughout the day.

In order to apply a more permanent fix, the affected realms must be moved to new hardware. We have begun performing maintenance on 10 realms, and we will bring down another 10 realms later this evening. A list of affected realms is posted below. During this hardware upgrade, these realms will be unavailable to players. This extended downtime is necessary in order to fix the stability and performance issues that have hampered these realms in the past. Players with characters on these realms will receive a 5-day time extension for the downtime incurred during this maintenance. Also, we realize that some players may have been disconnected outside of a major city or inn. Therefore all characters on these realms will receive a full rest-state bonus.

The downtime is expected to last approximately 24 hours. We’ll do our best to provide you with constant updates throughout the maintenance period. We thank you again for your patience during this time.

Realms currently down:

Lightbringer
Kilrogg
Frostwolf
Blackrock
Doomhammer
Kel'Thuzad
Dethecus
Uther
Kil'Jaeden
Deathwing

Realms scheduled for maintenance:

Cenarius
Destromath
Gorgonnash
Hyjal
Icecrown
Proudmoore
Ner'zhul
Silver Hand
Spinebreaker
Tichondrius

miir · Post by **miir** » March 11, 2005, 1:35 pm

Certain posters enjoy criticizing other companies when their servers have rare extended downtimes.

Avestan · Post by **Avestan** » March 11, 2005, 1:37 pm

for most, this sucks, but my parents in law are in town til sunday. . .so I got 5 free days and a full bar of rest exp during a time I could not have played anyway. . .yay!

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » March 11, 2005, 1:48 pm

miir wrote:Certain posters enjoy criticizing other companies when their servers have rare extended downtimes.

For the west Coasters on these realms an outage/downtime is not 'rare' in the least. These servers have had nothing but problem after problem for months now. Blizzard finally pulled there head out of there collective asses and ponied up the dough to replace all of our servers to stabilize and increase our performance.

I swear to god they were running us clustered Pentium 486 DX2 66's....--hehe

Mr Bacon · Post by **Mr Bacon** » March 11, 2005, 1:57 pm

sucks... but not for me!

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » March 11, 2005, 2:19 pm

Hmm... dosen't effect me but I almost wish it did. Five free days and a full rest bar? If you aren't already 60 that's a pretty nice deal and you can take your significant other out on the town and not be jonesing for WoW

Marb

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » March 11, 2005, 3:01 pm

I would take the 5 free days and full rest bar as well. It's a pretty nice exchange for 24 hours of downtime.

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » March 11, 2005, 3:42 pm

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... ost1912595

Re: Constant updates throughout maintenance | 3/11/2005 10:31:34 AM PST

We are currently performing internal testing on the realms. I'll provide you with an updated ETA shortly.

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » March 11, 2005, 4:40 pm

miir wrote:Certain posters enjoy criticizing other companies when their servers have rare extended downtimes.

Certain other companies have less players on all their servers worldwide than Blizzard has on just its West Coast servers. If you are going to come in and talk shit, remember that the other company is being "omg! pwnz0r3d!" by Blizzard in box sales and subscription fees. It is not an excuse for their problems, but in the words of Sean Connery "...just like a Wap; brings a knife to a gun fight". The two companies are not going through the same issues with the other company handling it better; the comparison is apples to oranges. I imagine that the other company would have had serious problems handling 4-5x the playerbase that they were expecting.

To be fair, I think Blizzard has had the crapped kicked out of them by their own marketing & sales machine; I honestly hope that they sort this all out for the future of the whole MMO market.

miir · Post by **miir** » March 11, 2005, 4:46 pm

A little bit defensive, aren't we?

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » March 11, 2005, 5:04 pm

wowow our realm was down all day yesterday and all day today and now another 24 hours awesome
this won't fix shit, and you're way too gullable if you think it will.

*~*stragi*~* · Post by ***~*stragi*~*** » March 11, 2005, 5:06 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:I would take the 5 free days and full rest bar as well. It's a pretty nice exchange for 24 hours of downtime.

of those free days i might get to play 2, and i'm level 60.. full rest bar does jack fucking shit for me.

they don't mention how hyjal comes down anytime someone sneezes in their server room.

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » March 11, 2005, 5:12 pm

miir wrote:A little bit defensive, aren't we?

Argumentative?

Yes.

Defensive?

No.

edit: You didn't try to argue my points, so I will assume that you are willing to concede that the two companies aren't playing in the same size sandboxes.

Moonwynd · Post by **Moonwynd** » March 11, 2005, 5:13 pm

All of these issues could be solved if they used 8-bit ISA...

miir · Post by **miir** » March 11, 2005, 5:27 pm

The purpose of my original post was to point out how childish some VV posters are...

I couldn't care less about extended server outages in WOW... I certianly wouldn't care enough to start a thread in this forum if your servers happened to be unexpectedly down for a few hours.

There is nothing to discuss or argue...

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » March 11, 2005, 5:27 pm

Moonwynd wrote:All of these issues could be solved if they used 8-bit ISA...

archeiron · Post by **archeiron** » March 11, 2005, 5:47 pm

miir wrote:The purpose of my original post was to point out how childish some VV posters are...

I couldn't care less about extended server outages in WOW... I certianly wouldn't care enough to start a thread in this forum if your servers happened to be unexpectedly down for a few hours.

There is nothing to discuss or argue...

There is always something to discuss or argue, even if we agree!

That is the shining message from Heaven delivered by this message board

miir · Post by **miir** » March 11, 2005, 6:00 pm

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » March 11, 2005, 8:47 pm

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... ost1912685

Update on Maintenance: ETA 4:00 PM PST | 3/11/2005 11:26:55 AM PST
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The realms currently down for extended maintenance are running internally and we have begun our internal testing phase. We expect all realms to avaiable to players at approximately 4:00 PM PST.

Sionistic · Post by **Sionistic** » March 11, 2005, 8:53 pm

Does it take 5 days to get 30bars rested exp?

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » March 11, 2005, 8:57 pm

Sionistic wrote:Does it take 5 days to get 30bars rested exp?

I am under the impression that it takes 10 days off line to max your Rested-State.

Diae Soulmender · Post by **Diae Soulmender** » March 11, 2005, 9:29 pm

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... ost1912685

Update: 4:05 PM PST
All realms are up. Players have begun logging in and playing. We will be closely monitoring performance over the next few hours.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » March 11, 2005, 11:43 pm

Diae Soulmender wrote:
Sionistic wrote:Does it take 5 days to get 30bars rested exp?
I am under the impression that it takes 10 days off line to max your Rested-State.

This is pretty close to the time frame. I believe the max is around 2 full bars (or that's it at level 51). I took off for around a month before going back, and I had the rest exp to get me to almost 54 with few quests and the normal daily rest xp accumulation.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » March 12, 2005, 3:10 am

Suramar remains untouched. MUAHAHAHAHA

...hah

hah

Truant · Post by **Truant** » March 12, 2005, 8:57 am

Boogahz wrote:
Diae Soulmender wrote:
Sionistic wrote:Does it take 5 days to get 30bars rested exp?
I am under the impression that it takes 10 days off line to max your Rested-State.
This is pretty close to the time frame. I believe the max is around 2 full bars (or that's it at level 51). I took off for around a month before going back, and I had the rest exp to get me to almost 54 with few quests and the normal daily rest xp accumulation.

As far as I know it's capped at 30 bubbles, or 1.5 levels. However, any experience other than kill experience doesn't affect it. So all your quest xp and shit doesn't take away from your rest.

Ajran · Post by **Ajran** » March 12, 2005, 7:12 pm

Moonwynd wrote:All of these issues could be solved if they used 8-bit ISA...

Because the embedded sound is awesome!