i'm predicting another 3 announcements of delays today and servers finally coming up sometime tomorrow

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If you honestly expected to play tonite then you had to much faith in Blizz. I figured it would be delayed at least once or twice before the servers came up, as well as some rolling restarts to fix bugs even after they come up.

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That's ok in my books... I've got shopping to do.

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I really don't think its too much to ask for, having the realms back online around the time Blizz had originally planned. After all, yes, we all pay the exorbitant (if fully accepted by now) fee to play monthly, so why doesn't at least some of that go to a scheduling department? I mean, television goes live every night - there are people with headsets screaming at other people to make things go right, and 99 out of 100 times, they do.

With a live server based game like this, Blizz should be treating it more like the evening news. 7 million people tune in daily, right? I dunno. I just think everyone getting a little lax in their expectations with Blizz, if for no other reason than to fly their 'I'm too cool to get worked up over a game' flag.

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"'I'm too cool to get worked up over a game' flag."

I'm flying it proudly.

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Furrius, a patch this size and the changes it involved and you expect it to not have any delays? I'm not lax over being pushed back, but I would rather have a 4 hour delay than 4 hours of rolling restarts and server crashes.

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So with these delays that happen does that mean that there will be a discount on how much i will have to pay for my next schedualled payment? Or when times like this come up how about some free in-game discount/item, like a free epic mount for my pally, it's the least they could do for making me wait this whole 4 hours. LOL jk. Seriously take the time needed and get it right the first time rather than hurry to get it up and have realm shutdowns everyday for the next week. I can only imagine what delay there will be when the expansion is released.

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I'm hoping for the "I fell into the center of the world" type of bugs!

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Not to really defend Blizzard's decision to give a unreachable maintenance window, but this is the single biggest change Wow has had since it launched.

* They're completely rewriting all of the maps, models, etc. to use more efficient textures. Hence the 3.8 GB requirement (it's literally rewriting the game on your hard drive).

* They have to completely rebuild the live realms' databases to include the new race choices, larger banks, bigger keyrings, etc. Not to mention replacing the entire loot table with the updated one including the new stats.

This is not a simple undertaking.

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I agree this is a big change. And I agree that it's a HUGE undertaking. That being said, I somehow think perhaps with a multi-billion dollar company, you might have been able to figure out a way to do this in the allotted time, by, oh, I don't know, maybe making some dry runs on equipment in the basement?

Perhaps half the staff is Christmas shopping today, who knows.

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I'm one of those that was willing to understand and defend Blizzard when new patches came out ... but you have to admit that at some point ... you need to get your act together.

I'm past the point of understanding ... The game has been out long enough that this process shouldn't be repeated every patch.

In all honesty ... I think we're helping beta test the new talent pools ... and like the initial release ... we'll play the little sheep we are because we're addicted to Blizzard branded crack.

Do I like it? Absolutely not. Will I cancel my account? Nope ... not going to happen anytime soon. Will I continue to put up with this when someone invents generic-branded crack? Nope ... in the words of 80's icon Huey Lewis, "I want a new drug."

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*4 hours of rolling restarts and server crashes.*

Don't worry.. that comes AFTER the delays!

: )

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it can crash for the next 8 hours for all I care...

Im stuck at work O_o

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Okay, I expected some of you to jump down my throat, but its socially irresponsible to use 'well this is a big undertaking' as an excuse.

Driving to work at a shitty little video game store in two feet of New England snow is a big undertaking. That doesnt mean my boss will think its okay if I show up four hours late - and damn, he doesn't pay me as much as Blizz makes. What do I do when a big job lies ahead?

I GET AN EARLY START. I organize my stuff, I leave an hour or two early, I ask friends and associates for help - I do what needs to be done. Its such standard fare for Blizz to have the cushy 'it's-a-big-job' pillow to land on. Boo-hoo. Cry about it to someone who doesn't pay for your services. I know its a big job - we all pay you to make sure the big job is taken care of in a timely fashion.

And just so we're clear, I wasn't really that miffed about not being able to WoW today, my only day off this week (that comes with the territory.) I'm actually more miffed that some of you think this behavior is acceptable for any type of business.


I understand problems arise, but I really don't think Blizz has ever had a bigger deadline to meet and subsequently has never blown it by this big of a margin.

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Just tried logging on, got through the usual update thing and it loading new stuff and having to accept a new EULA, but still no servers up. Not that I expected them to be, they haven't reached the deadline yet. However I will be ahead of everyone else who hasn't gone through all that stuff already so that's ok. ;-)

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First delay just came through.
Servers won't be up until 7pm PST now (tentatively)

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7 PM PST now.

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http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmstatus/lowbw.html

slowly coming online

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Egad, and now the EU servers are down for the patch too. Good thing I went through withdrawal over the weekend. I *can* survive the next 24 hours. I can! I can! I can!

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Given the amount of servers that they have to patch, and the fact that with this much to deal with, something SOMEWHERE is bound to go wrong, you can't just pass it off as simple as "getting an early start".

That would just mean we lose time as customers too. I hardly see the difference in putting hours earlier rather than later. It's still service time we lose, regardless of when we lose it.

Really, the only problem YOU should have is that Blizzard underestimated how long the patch would've taken. This is basically the biggest game patch we've had yet, changing mechanics, adding content and stuff. To think that applying a patch to a countless number of server would only take 12 hours and go seemlessly is a bit ridiculous.

Seriously, Blizzard should've just called it an off day, and have it be "it's done when it's done".

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