You might say they should have been prepared, i agree they maybe should, but i also understand why they were not, because a success like this could not have been predicted by anyone….

Ps: being a WoW Subscriber AND an EQ2 subscriber i must note that EQ2 got the same (if not bigger) problems with zones crashing.

Exactly. Which can also be described as “poor planning.” These problems are *easily* predictable.

Stealing Lineage’s IT people is a great idea – anything to alleviate this bullshit would be welcome.

Bah, victim of their own success.

Seems to be an appropriate restitution to the cursed players: 5-day time extension (per the usual guidelines .. heh, usual downtime guidelines. sad.) and full rested experience. They’d probably rather be able to play, as I would, but if ya can’t, this seems good.

It would seem that Mannox may not be insane, after all. Help could be on the way. *insert your own joke about what the timeline for the fix might be*

They may not have done much more then built a better EQ but they are in uncharted waters as far as # of subscribers goes. What they need to do is steal some of the people who engineered Lineage’s infrastructure. They have the money now to pour into new hardware so maybe we will see an end to these issues in the near future.

My realm has been fairly blessed. I have had it go down a couple of times but certainly no where near daily.

My favorite quote:
Shane Dabiri: We continue to place more copies of World of Warcraft into the market at a steady pace. It might not be as fast as some gamers would like, but we are trying our best to meet the demand. **We’re quite happy with the level of service we have currently,** and so you have seen an increase in the number of units for sale across the country. As recently as last month, 70,000 new copies were put on store shelves in North America.

Well, apparently, the constant crashing of multiple servers brings them satisfaction and maybe an overall sense of well-being.