This has to one of the buggiest patches ever. A lot of the complaints I saw were people just not knowing what to do, particularly with mounts, or talent trees, but others were stranger. Many players meeting themselves, even two or three copies of themselves, warriors finding their epic plate is now chainmail, gnomes speaking in Drenai, lots of people stuck, etc. I was booted so many times… Then there were resets and rollbacks - rather annoying after working out the talent tree etc. Then it fell over completely

As is stand for me (EU)…

Aerie Peak is down*
Wildhammer is down*
Blade Edge  was down but seems OK, for the moment
Hellscream was down but seems OK, for the moment

Yet characters we have on French, Spanish and German servers are all fine. Even stable enough to run BT raids.

* I log in, get the character list, Enter World - and get rejected:
“World Server is Down”

Before it all went pear shaped I was randomly getting booted, but was able to return, or return on other characters, now, nothing. The status on the listing for these is low population, assumedly meaning no-one else can get back on either.

If you look on the forums [ http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com ] they are flooded with people all over the world angry and frustrated, with the threads locked down as they fill up. A lot of people are probably very unhappy about now - easy to estimate the people having problems being “in the millions”

Can’t even access the EU Realm status
[ www.wow-europe.com/realmstatus/index.html ]

(503: The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.)

Can access realms here [ http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmstatus/ ] - and they are toppling over like a deck of cards.

Basically, it is a safe bet they majorly messed up with this ‘patch’ and should have left well alone until it was ready!

Been flaky for hours, now nothing unless I want to play in Spanish.

Los siento no creo este bien!

Sorry, but I don’t this this is very good, nope! Worse than my Spanish even :S

Been trying for 5 hours, on and on. The games is really messed. And to think I was calling Warhammer Online the other day. The guys at EA / Mythic must be laughing their socks of at Blizzard about now. At least their’s is a new game, one expects a certain amount of teething issues.

The log-in for Warcraft seems to be resetting now and shows many server offline.

I just want to work on Inscriptions for my guide. Meh!

As just to complete the night, it’s started hailstoning. I hate the cold. *mutter*

At the moment, for me, it’s more a case of Warhammer Offline

I pre-ordered this well in advance from Game.co.uk but when I went to collect it not only did they not have a copy, they had no record of the Collector’s edition  on the system - of the game, not my order - and tried to fob me off with a regular copy and a guide book to the game.  Game have just lost any and all loyalty I may have felt for them, especially seeing as I’ve been in a few times checking on it.

Wasted a few minutes trying HMV, Smiths and Gamestation on the way to the bank before turning for home and the trusty Internet. I had tried to get a copy online before but seeing as it wasn’t released, couldn’t. Rather bizarrely, I find, the one place you’d expect to get it doesn’t nor does it have any plans for it when I asked: Games Workshop, the company that owns the Warhammer franchise. Go figure!

Anyhow, a quick search showed copies now available from £59.99 with Play.com to the usual parasites on eBay buying them to sell at a huge markup. On day one - when you can still buy it in the stores - it was going from £125 to £195 a copy already. Fortunately for me Play still had copies and I’m hoping for mine tomorrow.

Wish I’d bought the CE versions of Warcraft at the time (didn’t want to get hooked) - these sell for over a £1,000 now *twitch* Just hope I can get a collector’s copy of the Lich King when it comes out.

On an unrelated note, Mrwwwl… At the end of the month you’ll be able to buy a Plushy Talking Murloc toy

Talking Plushy Murloc

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