Might also be preparation for the arena matches, but I'm just guessing here.

But yeah, it's possible they might demo the new game and use the auth servers to route it or so.

Reply

i thought about this. notice the 2.1 patch has been completed in the background downloader? maybe a surprise rollout of 2.1?

Reply

I have a feeling we are all wrong.....but here i go

what if they made a world of diablo or world of starcraft.......and linked it to WoW?

Reply

to #3. if it is another MMO, it definitely would be a discounted unified account subscription. no doubt. but the main point here is. this announcement definitely has more than one part to it and, possibly more than one game. on the schedule of events, its listed as

Announcement of new products (plural)

Reply

Possibilities:

1. The news affects WoW in some way, perhaps the announcement of the next expansion. They are anticipating people jumping on WoW to talk about this, and they don't want some type of fault to crash the servers during this surge of people.

2. The new game is StarCraft: Ghost, and is playable online. The demo will be released, with multiplayer, thus the patch to auth servers.

3. There was a problem with authentication that they wanted to fix, because they just found it.

4. Tseric made sweet love to the authentication server before he quit...literally. Cleanup on server 2!

5. There is some sort of game that is being released, in the next few days, which will need to use the auth servers.

6. The new StarCraft league system will be using the same auth servers as Bnet, and needs a patch.

Reply

They've moved it back to 9pm

Reply

Refresh the Blizzard page, Starcraft Ghost logo is up there instead of Burning Crusades under Current Projects now.

Reply

They must be doing it based on time zones. Here in the PDT its still the WoW page.

Reply

I've refreshed the real Blizzard Page (page after the mystery splash page) as #7 did. Still only lists World of Warcraft and Burning Crusade under "Current Projects".

Reply

No they changed it back already, musta been a mistake i happened to catch by chance, but i got a screenshot, I'm new here so if posting a link is bad just want to apologize ahead of time.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v104/Sketch63/oopsy.jpg

Reply

I can't log into Blood Furnace was in the middle of tanking and instance and got booted, now going on 30 minutes of not being able to log in. Super Annoying.

@10 ...Photoshop FTW

Reply

@10

Must be why the dates say Jun 2004... lol, photoshop much?

Reply

Call it Photoshop if you like but that pic is legit, all i did in Photoshop was crop it and resize for photobucket. Personally I'm not even a Starcraft fan I was hoping something new for Warcraft.

Reply

Ah found the problem, go to this link:

http://blizzard.com/images/

Somehow i got to that page and didn't notice the dates sorry bout that haha.

Reply

Click the link in my last post, I would never fake a pic, that would be seriously lame.

Reply

Yeah...lookin' at your screenshot SketchyNinja, that page isn't nearly up to date with what's being shown on there now. ;)

I'm guessing you haven't been there for awhile, so your cache (which needs a good cleaning, if this is the case) remembered that old un-refreshed version of the main Blizzard Page.

Reply

Doh, just missed your update, Sketchy. Clicked the link. All makes sense now.

Soooooooooooooooooooo.....

I still think it's Starcraft II. ;)

Reply

*Sobs* I just want to log into the game!!!! 41 min later I can't get in...

Reply

Hot Asian chicks in Blizzard gear:
http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=2986832&page=1&rowNum=1&sort=wtime&svcid=2,4,5,8&q=wwi

Liveblog from the event:
http://pc.ign.com/articles/788/788627p1.html

Reply