Battle for Azeroth - Simultaneous Launch in all Regions

[Meow]

Simultaneous launch in all regions... except mainland China.

[Usagi Senshi]

Dear diary, today marks my 65th day out at sea since escaping the island. I've almost regained feeling back in my legs and I can't wait until I see my cats again, but I shall never for get the day that WoW launched in all regions at once and people didn't know how to tell time.

Cool, Mondays are my day off and I asked for Tuesday off as well!

*stocks up on Charleston Chews, Rip-Its, and Fish Assholes*

[Phlegethon]

Its midnight.
12 PM is noon.

Ita not rocket science dude.

Well, 00:00 or 12:00.
It's not rocket science dude...

Like 16h24 or 19h30 isn't rocket science dude.

[Ealyssa]

Simultaneous launch in all regions... except mainland China.

Cause wow isn't managed by blizzard directly there. Cause chinese law.

It sucks to not be a democracy

[Logwyn]

They don't have control over it, it's their ISP being hit so take it up with them, not as easy as you think. And it wasn't "shut down" anyway, it was slightly more laggy than usual for a couple of hours until whoever it was got bored.

Yeah..... they hit the "ENTIRE" ISP......sure there buddy.

[Felkor]

Yeah..... they hit the "ENTIRE" ISP......sure there buddy.

In fact, it's right, you can can't mitigate a ddos attack at the end of the chain. Even if you had enough computationnal capacity on the network level to handle those connections, the network link between you and your ISP will be saturated, whatever the link capacity, a bot network big enough will win.

So the only way to mitigate those attacks is on ISP level, and more between ISP and L1 ISP. Being able to detect that a big amount of suspected malicious events are coming from a specific zone, and redirecting this traffic into a bgp hole.

Or, having huge capacity on the ISP level to be able to handle this traffic, and clear the unwanted connection and let only the "normal clients" go through. Those kind of solutions exists, but is tricky to use in a scenario like a wow expac launch, where you'll see coming 10M+ legit client in addition of dos bots. This require to scale even more. But, still possible.

I think in the case of Blizzard it could be more tricky, because they don't have an uniq access point to their network, but multiple per platforms.

[Deleted]

That moment when you live in Europe so nothing is changed haha. Also midnight launches are .. fancier.

[reauxmont]

For the adults among us with work/kids, it really doesn't matter if it's midnight or 3 am. Both means they will go to bed before launch and play the game after work the next day.

I'm also an adult with work, just without kids. I'm taking a week off for the launch - problem solved.

You mean like all the other expacks?

Are you from EU? Because we always had midnight launches, nothing changes here.

[Ehrenpanzer]

I dont get this stupid american timeformat (like all of american formats btw). Does it mean Paris at 00:00 or 12:00 in real Time-Format?

I think you just fail at telling time period if you dont know the difference between 12am and 12pm. Unbelievably, Blizzard is not a military organization that uses a 24h clock....

[Queen of Hamsters]

So naturally you egg it on, good riddance.

"good" news is subjective and given blizz track-record you can't blame fans for pondering the inevitable shit-show now on a scale of unforeseen proportions. Of course it might as well go smoothly - we'll have to wait and see.

I don't think you understand what "good riddance" means.

Blizzard's track-record is a hell of a lot better than what some "fans" give them credit for, especially as of Legion in terms of launch stability.
No, it comes down to people creating their own shit-shows and always assuming the worst, making it into a damned sport.

[Aradur]

I think you just fail at telling time period if you dont know the difference between 12am and 12pm. Unbelievably, Blizzard is not a military organization that uses a 24h clock....

The fuck are you talking about? We use 24h timeformat (aka normal and logic timeformat) everywhere except america and little america (UK)...because its just logical and easy to understand. like the metric system, liters and gramms. Even Databases like SQL use 24h format because you can actually work with it. Why should i ever need to know what 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM in real time format means besides the very spare times (actually the first time in my life) i need to convert that?

A little picture to show you what i mean:

[Queen of Hamsters]

Hmmmm with this being first time Blizzard is doing this type of launch...wonder if the dreaded DDoS attacks will come up like it did for when WoD went live....and Blizzard ended up giving all players 5 days credit cause of the huge log in issues.

To be entirely frank though, WoD's launch was a disaster for other reasons as well. For example, all players being funneled into the same areas and the exact same spots. BfA follows the same method of Legion with allowing players to choose where they want to begin, spreading out "the herd" as well as utilizing sharding.

If DDoS happens, at least they won't have screwed the pooch by designing in-game bottlenecks such as the Garrison...

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The fuck are you talking about? We use 24h timeformat (aka normal and logic timeformat) everywhere except america and little america (UK)...because its just logical and easy to understand. like the metric system, liters and gramms. Even Databases like SQL use 24h format because you can actually work with it. Why should i ever need to know what 12:00 AM or 12:00 PM in real time format means besides the very spare times (actually the first time in my life) i need to convert that?

A little picture to show you what i mean:

LMAO, bookmarking this for future reference. Had no idea it was this bad.

[rhorle]

Dafuq is 12am? Is that noon or midnight. Use a fucking 24h clock like people with a brain.

It is a 24 hour clock split up into 2 12 hour segments. Using a brain to divide or add is apparently to hard.

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The fuck are you talking about? We use 24h timeformat (aka normal and logic timeformat) everywhere except america and little america (UK)...because its just logical and easy to understand.

There is nothing illogical about a 12 hour clock. It is the same as a 24h clock but divide in two. A 24h clock is the exact same clock as a 12 hour. A 12 hour clock requires less numbers and less surface area for an analog clock. If you can't add or subtract then yes it will be illogical.

[Twdft]

Dunno about other European countries but as much as we Germans make fun of US time format we are a little schizo ourselves.

Written invitations etc will say "yo man be here at 16:30" and I know it's in the afternoon. But if someone calls me and to tell when we meet they'll say "yo man be here at half five afternoon" :-)

[Tiwack]

Blizzard's track-record is a hell of a lot better than what some "fans" give them credit for, especially as of Legion in terms of launch stability. No, it comes down to people creating their own shit-shows and always assuming the worst, making it into a damned sport.

Be the change you want to see and stop being a hypocrite then?
I don't think you know what "fans" means.
People are passionate about the things they care about. Even though the product is the same, they won't all think the same as you, and they don't care what you think, especially when you without consideration act to swiftly dismis their thoughts and experiences and just insert your own as fact.
There's been issues in the past and a move like this will test the systems for sure. Trolls are going to harass as is their nature and bugs will be found and fixed as per usual.

[Logwyn]

A little picture to show you what i mean:

The date thing..... You really run around saying "6th June 2018"?

Why not? 2018-6-18.

[Deleted]

How does the CEST make any sense? When i say 12 AM i always think about 12 in the morning....

[Aradur]

The date thing..... You really run around saying "6th June 2018"?

Why not? 2018-6-18.

Y-M-D would be the most logical thing, i agree. I use that on my Databases and my scripts to. But in Europe 6th June 2018 (D-M-Y) is commonly used. M-D-Y ist just a clusterfuck.

[Logwyn]

Y-M-D would be the most logical thing, i agree. I use that on my Databases and my scripts to. But in Europe 6th June 2018 (D-M-Y) is commonly used. M-D-Y ist just a clusterfuck.

Just what you are used too really..... if you do the d-m-y you get all sorts of confusing questions...

[rhorle]

Y-M-D would be the most logical thing, i agree. I use that on my Databases and my scripts to. But in Europe 6th June 2018 (D-M-Y) is commonly used. M-D-Y ist just a clusterfuck.

It always amazes me how stupefied people act over a slight change. Putting the month first doesn't change anything. The only problem that arises from it is when reading a date when someone does it different. Putting emphasis on the month then the days is no different then putting emphasis on the days then then the month.

I write January 3rd 2018. Why not abbreviate it with numerals the same way? Just as it makes sense for someone that commonly writes 3rd of January 2018 to write 3-1-18. It is all how you are introduced and raised but doing it one way is not inherently worse or better. Don't be so close minded.