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Post by **Lyion** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:14 pm

http://articles.filefront.com/No_More_P ... ticle.html

If do not already have a subscription to World of Warcraft, it might be awhile until you are able to get one. To say the least, the “test run” they mentioned in their January 10th press release has not been going so well.

“We haven’t requested that any retailers pull the games they already have off their shelves,” Gil Shift, public relations representative, said. “We’re just being careful not to release additional copies to be sold until we feel the game servers can support additional players.”

Blizzard declined to comment on how long it would be until more copies of World of Warcraft would be shipped to retail stores.

Some rumors had been circulating that Blizzard had pulled copies of World of Warcraft currently on sale from the shelves of video game retailers across the country, specifically Best Buy, to limit subscription growth. As for now, large retail chains such as Best Buy and Walmart currently do not have any copies of the game available. Even Blizzard’s official on-line store currently says that they are out of stock.

Signs for server confidence do not look good, especially considering last weekend’s performance for the North American servers. It was so severe, Blizzard said in their press release, that “due to the extended nature of the server issues, we will be providing a free 48-hour extension of play time.” Whether or not this will quell fans’ frustration has yet to be seen, as it has quite a few of them angry about their experience.

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It was enough for the authors of Penny Arcade, for instance, to revoke on Monday the award they gave to World of Warcraft as game of the year for 2004. “It's actually four and five times a week at this point that I can't even log in to the game,” Tycho, one of the two authors, said in the post. “It's not like I'm sitting here trying to connect at odd hours so I can catch them in something, either - this is in prime time, or on a weekend.”

The number of affected players is considerable, as SirBruce’s MMOG chart showed figures of active subscriptions reaching 350,000. With numbers that high, Blizzard’s on-line gaming service is comparable to other traditional services people pay for.

Clever Gnome, a user of the Evilavatar forum boards, posted that the down time was inexcusable. “People would flip sh*t if they turned on their cable TV during prime time and got a message that the "servers" were down,” he said.

Demius · Post by **Demius** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:54 pm

Ebay your acct now, while you can get 3k for it :D :D :D

Tae-Bo · Post by **Tae-Bo** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:55 pm

my friend in texas just bought it yesterday :dunno:

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 8:58 pm

This makes me laugh.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:17 pm

it's pretty fucking ridiculous

Dylan · Post by **Dylan** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:18 pm

Stable servers my ass...

Post by **DangerPaul** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:27 pm

Whisperwind is stable

Malluas · Post by **Malluas** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:13 am

lol sounds like the Old School nameless

THE RAID 5 WENT DOWN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:30 am

Don't worry guys. I have sent my TWO Commadore VIC 20's to Blizzard to use as server's. All should be fine once they implement the new teknolojiez.

If you know what a VIC 20 is you are truly olskoo.

I think I was like 4 years old when I played with one. They had this great ninja game called "INVISIBLE Ninja" which my dad helped me program out of a BYTE magazine. It was super spiffy. You played a ninja who was invisible which is an oxymoran, and you pwned shit l3ft and right invisible. No one could stop me at the ripe age of 4.

If WoW doesn't work out I will be transfering back to Legends of the Red Dragon RIP here shortly. I know its only a text based game but I have a l337 druid ready for war.

brinstar · Post by **brinstar** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:32 am

DangerPaul wrote:Whisperwind is stable

for true

PS i had a vic20

Post by **Arlos** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:34 am

So did I. Spiders of Mars was the ownage Defender clone. ROM Cartriges 4 teh win!

-Arlos

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:38 am

I heard WoW made the news on G4TV

Basically it was about the shitty server stability etc.

That has to hurt their rep.

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:08 am

Whisperwind is stable.

Cong lower BRS clear, np.

Demius · Post by **Demius** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:08 am

One thing squaresoft did right ... their servers are as stable as any MMORPG i've seen. Granted square did everything else wrong, but their servers are grade A :D

Tacks · Post by **Tacks** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:12 am

You have to remember though, the Japanese players had been playing for almost a year before the NA players were allowed on. Their servers crashed quite often on launch as well.

Adivina · Post by **Adivina** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:08 am

Agrajag · Post by **Agrajag** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:07 pm

The funny thing is here on base they have an over abundance of extra copies of WoW, hehe. I told that to the video clerk when I was in there and overheard someone ask about WoW. He offered me $80 per copy I could get him. If that wasn't illegal I would have jumped on it in a heartbeat. I only pay $44.95 per copy, tax free.

Captain Insano · Post by **Captain Insano** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:36 pm

What was that really cool game where you ran up the pyramid and dodged flying cobras and boulders and stuff for the VIC 20?

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:11 pm

C64 > *

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:42 am

ralfmacchio wrote:What was that really cool game where you ran up the pyramid and dodged flying cobras and boulders and stuff for the VIC 20?

Pitfall or am I thinking of something else?

Menelvir · Post by **Menelvir** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:43 am

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:32 am

i liked qbert

Agrajag · Post by **Agrajag** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 4:45 pm

Pitfall was the old Atari 2600, Adam.

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