World of Warcraft servers are always up, apparently

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World of Warcraft servers are always up, apparently

January 4, 2005

When you have a server status page that doesn’t work, and which tauntingly indicates that all servers are up even when they clearly aren’t, you have to wonder whether it’s a marketing tool for Blizzard, or just plain laziness in fixing a clearly broken script. Check out the World of Warcraft Realm status page - I’ve never seen a realm (i.e. a server) indicated as being down when it actually is down.

Right now, all servers are down because of weekly maintenance that goes on for 4 hours. And guess what? The server status pages indicates that ALL servers are up, alive and bursting with players killing goretusk boars and pygmy venom web spiders. I’m not whining about the downtime, but I am whining about the perenially broken server status page!

This page seems to be far more accurate in providing realm status.

Posted by Chu Yeow at January 4, 2005 SGT |

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I’ve always noticed that the page is fairly accurate. Besides the occasional glitch, the only thing that it doesn’t indicate is if the LOGIN server is down.

Posted by: Matt on January 5, 2005 12am

dude, I thought you had to wait for the EU release, did you cheat and buy the US version? :)

… or did I miss something?

Posted by: Tom Sommer on January 5, 2005 12am

Matt: I’m not the only one. There are many threads on this issue in the Blizzard WoW forums.

Tom: I didn’t have to wait actually. I live in Singapore (so we unofficially use the US servers). I got my Collector’s Edition off eBay ;).

Posted by: Cheah Chu Yeow on January 5, 2005 12am

A blue post says they make take down the page until it is working again.

I rerolled and I started a Paladin last night so I want to try him out some more.

Posted by: CarLBanks on January 5, 2005 2am

Apparently it’s working now - it shows a few servers as being down.

Posted by: Steve on January 5, 2005 9pm

Sometimes server status pages do tell the truth!
Most of the time when I have MSN issues the MSN status page actually shows something…. like most sites, tbh……

Posted by: Ed's Blog on January 11, 2005 4am

Hey Cheah, I know this is unrellated, but I send you an email a few days ago and wanted to know if you had read it yet.

Thanks :)

Posted by: The Wolf on January 11, 2005 2pm

Can’t you find seervers that work?

I really want to play World of Warcraft.

If you would do that (taking some servers that work) i’l say to all of the nation that this site is the best for searching everything you want

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