Starting at least half an hour ago, and continuing through to now, 36 US realms, comprising the battlegroups Rampage and Shadowburn, are down. Blizzard notes that they are "currently unavailable and are being worked on," and that they don't have an ETA right now, but will give us an update around 8:50 AM PDT/11:50 AM EDT. So we should hear more about this in 15 minutes or so, at which point I'll update the post with any new information.The affected realms are: Agamaggan, Alexstrasza, Alleria, Azshara, Baelgun, Balnazzar, Blackhand, Cho'gall, Dark Iron, Destromath, Dethecus, Detheroc, Emerald Dream, Garona, Gorgonnash, Greymane, Gul'dan, Hellscream, Illidan, Kael'thas, Kalecgos, Kirin Tor, Lightninghoof, Maelstrom, Malfurion, Moonrunner, Nazjatar, Ravencrest, Sargeras, Spinebreaker, Staghelm, Stormreaver, Twisting Nether, Ursin, Whisperwind, and Wildhammer.
[Thanks, Laz]
Update (12 PM): Blizzard provided an update to let us know that they will provide another update at 10 AM PDT, which is in an hour. They're working on it and appreciate our patience.
Update (1 PM): Now they think they've figured out what's wrong, and they're saying the realms should be up by 10:30 PDT/1:30 EDT.
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4-14-2008 @ 11:39AM
Scott said...
These realms have had problems over the weekend as well. It is becoming quite tiresome to say the least.
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4-14-2008 @ 11:44AM
Hood said...
This is my fault. I log in and they go down immediately. Sorry.
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4-14-2008 @ 11:45AM
SenRepus said...
This happened to us around last Thursday too... not to mention the random disconnects and morning lag that Illidan puts up with anyway.
This news article got posted while I was here looking for this:
http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/04/10/some-eu-realms-get-a-free-day/
And wondering where my free play time is.
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4-14-2008 @ 11:48AM
bonelip said...
GO WHISPERWIND!
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4-14-2008 @ 11:50AM
Nik said...
Kind of bummed not to see my realm on here..... It's a PvE server - Durotan. While I haven't had the BG issues everyone is seeming to have (I don't do them), the server has had really bad lag, lots and lots of Outlands glitches and bugs, NPCs not being available for a quest turn in?, plus the mini-map doesn't work.
Kind of wish mine was on there....lot's of issues....
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4-14-2008 @ 11:59AM
Lak said...
Isn't the first time, and it won't be the last. Not sure what it is about our battlegroups, but it's been pretty bad as of late.
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4-14-2008 @ 12:08PM
Buuty said...
Keep dreamng if you think we'll get the kind of customer service EU gets.
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4-14-2008 @ 12:12PM
Laz said...
Yer welcome.
I too was having problems with random logoffs and NPC strangeness in Zang on Saturday so I hope they pinpoint the source of the problem and fix it soon. I usually have no connection issues so it was surprising.
Oh, and I blame Hood.
-Laz
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4-14-2008 @ 12:17PM
con-man said...
"They're working on it and appreciate our patience."
lolwut?
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4-14-2008 @ 12:47PM
Hank said...
patience=money.
4-14-2008 @ 12:20PM
lehtinen said...
Verizon is having a big network issue right now. Our company is having a lot of outages as well. Not sure if it is the same issue that is causing it but it is possible.
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4-14-2008 @ 12:23PM
flatrabbit said...
This constant downtime is really getting to me, all these realms were down on Saturday for a period of time too. Unfortunately for me I seem to have most of my characters on the same battlegroup, I'm not sure how exactly that happened but now I'm really annoyed when they go down.
The only silver lining is that I'm at work so at least I'm not sitting at home frustrated as I can't play now anyways.
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4-14-2008 @ 12:30PM
Brownjohn said...
I had lag on Baelgun almost the entire weekend. I'm glad I didn't skip work today... =/
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4-14-2008 @ 12:34PM
Arras said...
Whisperwind's lag was in the 3-5000 range on Saturday afternoon before finally crashing for a while. Sunday had some brief periods of high lag, but not as bad as Saturday's
Hopefully whatever they're doing will fix this
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4-14-2008 @ 12:52PM
Luciox said...
Downstromath ftl
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4-14-2008 @ 1:03PM
Swarfy said...
I had lag Saturday on Baelgun until they did the rolling restarts. After wards I was fine.
There was a rumor going around that there was a memory leak internal that hit once 2.4 went in. So I'm actually wondering if there's any truth to that now.
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4-14-2008 @ 2:02PM
Carbon said...
They have posted that they will be missing the 1:30pm EST deadline. They say they will be giving more information around 2:00pm EST.
:(
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4-14-2008 @ 2:30PM
boutin said...
14h many more realm are down, include mine Lothar.
Dam i just log off 5 min , never see if server send general message for shutdown or server brutaly shutdown
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4-14-2008 @ 2:33PM
Carl Q. said...
Kinda wish they would fix dalaran on off-hours like those realms. My guild raids 2 nights a week and we had to call our sunday raid because the instance server crashed on us and all our main chars. were stuck in TK for 45 minutes.
Thanks Blizz. :(
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4-14-2008 @ 2:42PM
Cormorand said...
Zul'Jin is also down now, unsure of other Ruin-BG-based realms.
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