If you were attempting to play this evening, you may notice your realm vanishing out from under you. That's because Blizzard has been in the process of rolling restarts to fix a serious issue with today's 2.1.0 patch. As of 3:45 PM PST (that's 6:45 PM to you east coasters), restarts began, with an anticipated downtime of 15 minutes for each realm. The problem that caused all this hubbub? The official forums are a bit flakey this evening, but reader SirCasey reports that stacked items taken from mailboxes are vanishing from players inventories -- and I don't know about you, but I can see this resulting in hundreds of gold lost. What to do if you've already lost something? Blizzard poster Hortus says talk to a GM, but makes no promises that they'll be able to restore items.Update: CM Drysc reports at 6:30 PM PDT (9:30 PM EST) that complications from the earlier fix has prevented some realms from coming back online. However, they're working on bringing the remaining realms back online and plan to have all realms back online by 9:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM EST).
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5-22-2007 @ 8:12PM
Brianne said...
>.
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5-22-2007 @ 8:17PM
Twitchy said...
Yeah this is retarded, Alexstraza's been down for like 20 minutes and im pissed
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5-22-2007 @ 8:18PM
SirCasey said...
I'm just glad I've been more interested in finding updates for my addons today than I was in playing.
Sounds like a lot of people lost some very expensive materials this afternoon...
~SirCasey
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5-22-2007 @ 8:20PM
Kompost said...
Longest 15 minutes ever =(
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5-22-2007 @ 8:24PM
Olympus said...
This patch has been hell for me. I've gotten nearly 4 or 5 evade bugged mobs, horrible lag, and now this???
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5-22-2007 @ 8:25PM
Ryan said...
25 Minutes after the restart, got stuck up on Retrieving character list, then spit back out only to get stuck on Authenticating. This is FANTASTIC.
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5-22-2007 @ 8:27PM
toots said...
Heh, I havn't been on my main server at all today. It's now 8:30 eastern and i could see my server the list. I tried to access it all excited like and it just says retrieving character list. So i exit game and come back in, now it just says authenticating. I am having no fun today.
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5-22-2007 @ 8:28PM
Kyle said...
/sigh
Well, I haven't even been able to log onto Bleeding Hollow all day (whee for upgrades...), and it looks like it may stay that way all night.
Maybe I'll go start an alt on a server that's actually up or something.
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5-22-2007 @ 8:29PM
Twitchy said...
Authentication server seems to be down...
what the crap blizz L2Maintenence
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5-22-2007 @ 8:33PM
GT0783 said...
Yeah I got on fine after teh restart but now it kicked me out again and i can't get past authenticating now and the forums are down.
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5-22-2007 @ 8:33PM
Felixia said...
*sigh* Fairly certain I was the first person on my server to complete the Epic Flight Form quest and the *&#)!#$ servers had to go down just as I was flying towards my last turn-in following the Raven Lord kill.
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5-22-2007 @ 8:33PM
Corrodias said...
Are you guys new to WoW? Patch days are always like this.
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5-22-2007 @ 8:35PM
Twitchy said...
lol @ 12 i've never seen a patch implemented this poorly... since when do the FORUMS go down as a result?
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5-22-2007 @ 8:38PM
Paulallen said...
.....i was bored....then patch came.....then i was happy.....now restarts.....bored again...sigh..
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5-22-2007 @ 8:38PM
Felixia said...
@ 13...
Always.... Because they're being slammed by all the folks trying to figure out what the hell is going on and/or bitching about it.
@12...
There hasn't been a patch day like this since BC was released.... Let's focus on the negative and wholly ignore the positive, shall we?
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5-22-2007 @ 8:39PM
kat said...
I was on my way to solo Onyxia....
Dunno how I would get past phase 2 (linken's boomerang maybe?) but hell, i'd never run out of mana!
http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w216/senjinc9/WoWScrnShot_052207_180710.jpg
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5-22-2007 @ 8:41PM
Afrigginhobbit said...
Ya this is as bad as the week after BC came out.
Looks like the bottom dropped out from under blizz on this one.
I quote 9...
L2Maintenence.
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5-22-2007 @ 8:42PM
SirCasey said...
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My guesses:
1) Shut down to stop the flood of 'what happened to my stuff?' and 'servers down again?' posts.
2) All servers being shutdown including the authentication server to fix a more widespread issue than we even know about.
/sigh
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5-22-2007 @ 8:42PM
xtian said...
I've seen the forum stay busy/overloaded, but i've never seen it be TAKEN down. I think blizzard borked something up pretty bad this time.
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5-22-2007 @ 9:36PM
HolyLiaison said...
The forum is a part of the auth system. And it seems like they're having problems with a lot of things at the moment.
Saying you're pissed, or flooding the forums with "omg when's the server going to be fixed" isn't going to help Blizzard at all.
They haven't had a lot of problems recently with patches, most of them have gone smoothly. Even BC on my server was flawless.
Anyway, I'm sure they'll be giving us free play time. So quit getting your panties in bunches.
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