‘World of Warcraft’ battles server problems

Posted by Stropp on September 29, 2006

Now that I’ve got your attention. The headline above is the headline used in a CNet article about the server problems that currently face many of us WoW devotees. I have to admit that when I first read it, I thought it fit quite nicely into the “Well, Duh!” category.

I know Blizzard faces an uphill battle attempting to keep their servers stable with a high uptime, but I thought this quote from the article was quite telling.

“Being a system administrator myself, I have some understanding of what goes on in a corporate data center,” said Evgeny Krevets, a sometimes-frustrated WoW player. “I don’t know Blizzard’s system setup. What I do know is that if I kept performing ‘urgent maintenance’ and taking the service down without warning for eight-hour periods, I would be out of a job.”

I enjoy WoW and spending time with the people in my guild enough to put up with the problems, so I won’t be leaving anytime soon. But, people only really have so much patience. I’d hate to see the problems with the servers resolved simply by having the playerbase quit and leave low population servers behind them.

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