So EU login system down?!

[Deleted]

I've been watching porn for 5h now, I cant take this much longer please make WoW work.

Best info in this whole topic. Was wanting to make a "I bet the traffic on porn website just boosted up" joke. On the offtopic again congrants in advance for the small few who might seed to become daddy today. Guess downtime might have some advantages...

[mercutiouk]

The amount of kiddies here with the "omg it doesn't work, the skies falling" with "sky falling" being anything from end of wow, end of Blizzard, end of world, end of their lives etc is rather scarey.

Issues like this aren't an everyday occurrence, expecting fingers to be snapped, wands to be waved and the issue to be magically fixed are rather... naive to say the least. With as much planning as you'd care to throw at this (down to a redundant part for pretty much everything) you can expect this to be pretty damn major. The mindless wailing and gnashing of teeth is frankly ridiculous, get a grip kiddies.

Blizzard have their servers hosted by companies that are paid to not have downtime, that they are down isn't exactly Blizzards fault and isn't something you can just throw money/people at to make right. If you think that's brown-nosing then you have my pity and I wish you the very, very best in your adult lives. They aren't likely to be pleasant once mummy and daddy aren't wiping your nose/bottom for you.

If you were to take a few minutes to rationally consider what it takes to house the service wow provides and the technology required to run it (e.g up to 80 computers up to 9000 km apart being updated within 10 to 300 ms with the updates to your character and everyone else's character as it takes damage from the other players in BG while at the same time tracking the damage you've done, the kills made, xp earned etc etc and the abuse the database running the show is taking and the bandwidth requirements to keep that data flowing real time) you might actually realise that things aren't just magically kept running for your tiny, self important personality. It takes a reasonable degree of skills from the folks looking after it. They'll (Telia and/or Blizzard) literally have all hands on deck trying to fix this. Cut em a TINY fraction of slack for fucks sake. I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate being ripped a new one over any mistakes you might make. It would likely destroy your precocious, highly strung, little ego.


Edit: and apologies for the rant. The shallow mentality of some folks in here just completely blows me away.

[Heenk]

What does that even mean?

"I can see replying to this resulting in a [forum] holiday", i.e. a temporary ban

[Deleted]

Leave out the talking on forums, I'm currently working with next years school studies. I'm already done with all my next years web development assignments, currently working on finishing the computer enginnering class too.

Perhaps time to stop wasting time here and clear dust from the future so you get to play more in the future?

[mercutiouk]

What does that even mean?

You equate server farm issues to "well, there goes that company. They haven't fixed it yet so they must be out of cash"... WHERE'S THE FORKING LOGIC IN THAT? Do you HAVE a measurable IQ?

[D3athsting]

Fuck this shit, going to play gw2 now

[mercutiouk]

"I can see replying to this resulting in a [forum] holiday", i.e. a temporary ban

and yes, as Heenk explained.

[Deleted]

Fuck this shit, going to play gw2 now

I had that thought too. But then i remembered how fkn bad that game is so i didnt.

[Deleted]

It takes a reasonable degree of skills from the folks looking after it.

This really cracked me up. Server maintenance needs true skill. You need at least a PHD from Harvard and an IQ average of 190 to patch and restart servers.

[Cryonic]

Do you HAVE a measurable IQ?

charming, just charming. I love you too

[Deleted]

I had that thought too. But then i remembered how fkn bad i dislike this game so i didnt.

fixed for ya, no need to thank me

[Deleted]

Is this a joke or what, how many monkeys does it take to fix the internetz???

[Deleted]

i can login, cant get past loading screen though, sticking on 75%

[Soisoisoi]

Getting "Character not found" after sitting at 90% of the loading screen rather than the usual DC now. Something is changing, hopefully won't be too long until we get in? :3

edit: Got the log-in noise on the loading screen, still stuck at 90% or so!

edit: the "character not found" is only happening for my DK in Shrine of Seven Stars, I get a DC on other chars in Stormwind.

[Goge]

What if this is Blizzard's way into forcing us to enjoy the holidays?

*Conspiracy Keanu*

[Deleted]

Very well written. Thank you!

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Not sure what part of "external ISP" is their responsability. Should Blizzard pay for the entire worlds internet and ISP's just so everyone can connect to their game at all times? Be reasonable. Look at Zeror's post to understand why such complaints are ridiculous.

I love your sig. It's from Fatal Pulse, no?

Continue.

[Deleted]

"We are currently monitoring an issue that is affecting various regions of internet traffic"
Implies decentralised problem with the internet - incorrect

"This has not been found to be an internal issue"
Implies that it isnt their fault - it is because THEIR redundancy design has failed

What they should say is - "We have a problem with our login servers - we are doing everything we can to fix it. The problem seems to be with connectivity through our suppliers, we are working with them to resolve it"

Login servers are working flawlessly, that's not the issue.
The issue as of right now seems to be on Telia's end (HINT: Their network partners). In case you didn't know, Telia is an ISP.

Blizzard is a global company and will be incredibly intimately linked with their network providers. Their is nothing wrong with EU internet in general.

Teliasonera (Telia) is a network operator that provides mobile and internet services. They are an ISP and are directly linked to Blizzard to provide network support for the europe servers. There was even an NPC named after them http://www.wowhead.com/npc=16702/telia.

No-one is saying that Europes' net is falling apart, but the issue is based in Europe using Europe ISP's and thus Europe networks. This problem is up to the network guys in Europe to fix (If it is infact a problem on Telias end, then it is up to them).

[Deleted]

This is gonna persist all night long, deal with it.

[draykorinee]

Dinged 90 last night, had 6 hours this morning free to gear up....damn it. shit happens though. Id reinstall GW2 but then I realised I hate that game.

[Deleted]

If some people are actually in the game world atm, how are they doing it?

I've tried a few VPNs and still can't get into the game world.