Warcraft Servers Crash, 2 People are Surprised

In recent weeks, a good portion of the Warcrap servers have been going down just about every night — instead of like in the “old days” when it required the weekend crush to bring those bad boys to their knees.

I wonder if it’s gotten to the point yet where the suits walk downstairs to where all the khakis are and just stand there and sigh. Once a suit has moved past screaming to sighing, it’s getting serious. That’s the “I really want to murder you all” sigh.

Goddamn, can’t they just make a few phone calls and steal some IT people from SOE with the lure of piles of cash and be done with it? At least SOE’s servers are up most of the time — last time I played a SOE game, about a month out from launch, they at least had most of the shit cleared up and were ready to do some serious nerfing.

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Dumb Luck That

A few of us in the e-thug guild came from the same EverQuest server and the same guild — eventually that is, after brief vacations in other virtual worlds. We are quite the melting pot of online gaming if you were to examine the myriad relationships and histories that brought us altogether into World of Warcraft. The current clique works and that’s all that matters at this point.

But the few of us, we came from EverQuest, same guild. And on our former EQ server, we had arch enemies, as was natural for anyone that played EQ for longer than six months — after about six months, more or less, we all had a list of players that had fucked us over repeatedly, and we, them, in turn.

It was a tight community … like a noose.

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