World of Warcraft’s regularly-scheduled Tuesday maintenance included some emergency patching for performance and harkened the opening of five brand, spanking new servers. The new servers are open to anyone, therefore, they are not split servers … unless the concept of a split server is completely lost on Blizzard and I really don’t want to consider that possibility.

Also from Blizzard Central, some notes of interest from the Game Masters: guild name changes are borking, players were exploiting the Molten Core (allegedly! — we’ve seen how that can work) and a reminder on which of the dozens of Blizzard email addys should be whitelisted on subscribers’ spam filters.