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Why the fuck did I bother reactivating my WOW account?
Posted: March 21, 2005, 11:50 pm
by miir
Against my better judgement I reactivated my WoW account.
Posted: March 22, 2005, 12:19 am
by Aslanna
Is this a rhetorical question?
Posted: March 22, 2005, 12:34 am
by Winnow
Looks like fun!
Posted: March 22, 2005, 12:39 am
by noel
Lol I was trying to create a character on an EQ2 server this morning when Kilmoll explained to me that I was trying to do it during their normally scheduled 'daily' maintenance.

Posted: March 22, 2005, 2:00 am
by Zaelath
This morning wasn't daily maintenance, it was patching for the mini expansion, hence 3 hours downtime at 7-10am CST instead of 30 mins (average) downtime at 4-4.30am
If anyone should (and does) bitch about 'daily maintenance' it's the people in Western Australia and Japan (since it's at 8 or 9pm there, probably even worse when DST changes over)
Posted: March 22, 2005, 2:13 am
by Lynnsie
Everytime that the servers go down for more than 30 minutes, you can go to the Sony EQ2 boards and find atleast 2 Euro dipshits bitching and demanding compensation for their time "lost" due to maintenance or patching for mini expans. Before I get flamed to hell and back, not all Euro's are dipshits...I am only talking about the ones on EQ2 boards. It's fucking ridiculous that they think they are the only ones getting the nasty end of a shit stick when EQ2 boards come down. imo I would much rather wait 30 min for daily scheduled maintenance between 7-7:30am est than play WoW and not be able to really play on their servers at all. And along with the bullshit compensation demands they threaten to go to WoW

I am waiting one day for the mods on those forums to just go ape shit when they have heard enough bitching and complaining and see an all out bitch fest between them and dissatisfied Euro's.
Posted: March 22, 2005, 3:25 am
by Sargeras
Oh nos! 6 minutes!
Go take a shit or something!

Posted: March 22, 2005, 4:02 am
by Drinsic Darkwood
6 minutes is definitely worth not having to stare at tentacle hair all day long!
Posted: March 22, 2005, 9:45 am
by Kilmoll the Sexy
Yeah....I didn't know they were patching the adventure pack and some other new stuff today. Normally it is just the 30 minute maintenance for updating and patching in small stuff that they do in the morning for 30 minutes.
I will say this.....their coders fucked up hardcore and could not possibly have tested one of their new zones before sending it live. I have never seen so much lag in an instanced zone. At least a 5 second delay on everything you did in the zone...and no more than 6 people in it. I fully expect to see an hour or more of downtime today to fix that.
Posted: March 22, 2005, 10:02 am
by miir
Oh nos! 6 minutes!
Actual wait was roughly 11 minutes.
Played in laggy molasses for 20 minutes when the game stopped responding.
Tried to log in again... waited 15 minutes before I fired up EQ2.
Posted: March 22, 2005, 11:03 am
by Lynnsie
Kilmoll the Sexy wrote:Yeah....I didn't know they were patching the adventure pack and some other new stuff today. Normally it is just the 30 minute maintenance for updating and patching in small stuff that they do in the morning for 30 minutes.
I will say this.....their coders fucked up hardcore and could not possibly have tested one of their new zones before sending it live. I have never seen so much lag in an instanced zone. At least a 5 second delay on everything you did in the zone...and no more than 6 people in it. I fully expect to see an hour or more of downtime today to fix that.
If you are talking about the D'Morte zone off of Nek...I had 0 lag on Permafrost and it is a heavily populated server. They did database changes though. I have a custom UI and it worked fine the day before the patch..but on patch day when servers came back up I crashed 3 times and got fatal errors out the ass. I had to go back to default UI until I could talk to the guy who did my UI to find out what was wrong. Sony was supposed to patch 2 different times yesterday and never did so maybe they will fix whatever is making you lag so bad...wishful thinking I know
Posted: March 22, 2005, 11:09 am
by miir
Very sorry about the overloaded zone -- We'll be standing up some new instances within the next few hours to get rid of the lag.
The zone's popularity turned out to shoot past our estimates. It's already fixed on our side and waiting for one other fix before we get it out to the live servers.
- Scott
Posted: March 22, 2005, 12:44 pm
by Sabek
miir wrote:Very sorry about the overloaded zone -- We'll be standing up some new instances within the next few hours to get rid of the lag.
The zone's popularity turned out to shoot past our estimates. It's already fixed on our side and waiting for one other fix before we get it out to the live servers.
- Scott
OMGADZ!1!!!1!!!
How can they possibly be allowed to live? You mean they had something that did vastly better than their original estimates thought, and now they are working to add capacity to fix the problem?
The audacity of those fucking bastards!
Posted: March 22, 2005, 12:49 pm
by miir
I took them less than a day to address the issue.
At Blizzard's current rate of fixing shit, their servers will still be pooched in 2006. Sad that they fucked up such a potentially good game with such horrendous service and server stability.
Posted: March 22, 2005, 1:11 pm
by Mr Bacon
So get a server transfer or play on a less congested server.. I switched servers 3 times before canceling just for the hell of it.
Posted: March 22, 2005, 1:13 pm
by miir
The reason I reactivated was to play on Shattered Hand with a friend.
Posted: March 22, 2005, 1:28 pm
by Aslanna
miir wrote:The reason I reactivated was to play on Shattered Hand with a friend.
Probably would have been easier to use your spooky EQ2 brainwashing powers and have that person quit WoW to play EQ2 instead.
Posted: March 22, 2005, 3:07 pm
by Lisandre
miir wrote:The reason I reactivated was to play on Shattered Hand with a friend.
Shattered Hand is one of the most over-populated of the servers. They are one of the first servers for which server transfers are being allowed.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/faq ... -list.html
Posted: March 22, 2005, 3:26 pm
by Animalor
The only think I really want to offer to this conversation is this..
Give it a whirl on another server. Lothar is constantly pegged at High population yet we have never a Queue and there is very rarely lag.
(I haven't encountered a wait queue since Open Beta)
Look at Lisandre's list, Don't play on any servers on the left and you should be just fine and you may even have an enjoyable experience.
There are 95 servers listed in the Realm Forum message board and you're judging quality of service on the worst/most crowded one of the bunch.
Posted: March 29, 2005, 11:33 am
by *~*stragi*~*
1.5 million > 200k
Posted: March 29, 2005, 11:40 am
by miir
Does that mean Lineage is better than WoW?
ROOOOFLE!!!1!one!!11
Posted: March 29, 2005, 11:43 am
by Mr Bacon
miir wrote:Does that mean Lineage is better than WoW?
ROOOOFLE!!!1!one!!11
Yes.
Posted: March 29, 2005, 11:45 am
by miir
Don't you mean....
YESSSSS!!!!!
Posted: March 29, 2005, 12:51 pm
by Mr Bacon
Mango does not overexaggerate his words!
Posted: March 31, 2005, 6:47 pm
by Marbus
Miir miir miir... see you just won't listen to me, the problem is that you were trying to log into Shattered Hand rather than Whisperwind where all the cool people are... Karma dosen't want you playing there, it wasn't you on WW
Marb