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BETA DOWN!!! Servers drying out....

styles74styles74 Member Posts: 222
in World of Warcraft

what a serious blow to progress (from the wow community page)

Emergency Update: Servers Drying Out - Block on 09/19/04

Enough electrical power is now available at the Virginia datacenter for us to analyze the extent of any damage that might have occurred as a result of the direct tornado hit Friday night, but the hardware is not yet dry enough to be powered up. The good news is that there's a possibility that we will be able to begin carefully powering up and testing the hardware late this evening. Our on-site team of network engineers is working around the clock on the situation, and we will be posting another update here for everyone tomorrow afternoon. The pictures linked to below give a general impression of the damage sustained by the building housing our servers.

The US World of Warcraft beta test will remain offline for the remainder of Sunday and into Monday, and possibly longer. As soon as we have an estimate on when we will be able to restore service, we'll share that information here. Our thanks go out again for your continued patience and support.


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  • VakktnVakktn Member Posts: 746
    Wouldnt be surpirsed if they did a char wipe. Would be a good time to do it though with the new patch upcomming and all.

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  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263
    Thanks for the update, but I already posted that. :)

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  • moukinmoukin Member Posts: 278


    Originally posted by Vakktn
    Wouldnt be surpirsed if they did a char wipe. Would be a good time to do it though with the new patch upcomming and all.

    Prior to the tornado, they said they weren't going to do any item/money/char wipes with the upcoming patch.  So it'll all depend on what they recover from the servers.  My guess is, at worst they'll do a server rollback, but probably not too far back depending on when their last backup was.

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  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263

    I would hate to see such a beautiful game be destroyed from what happened...

    That would be a horrible way to go out...  I have faith in Blizzard...  they've always pulled through.  Might push the game back to 2014, but sh*t, at least it will be out. image

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  • moukinmoukin Member Posts: 278
    Nah.  I'm certain they have tons of backups of their game data and such.  The only thing that would be totally destroyed from the servers going down might be a few hours of character info. 

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  • ArgeanArgean Member UncommonPosts: 126

    They pulled the plug to the servers before the damage. So everything should be current. It is just a matter of how much or if any damage to the hardware happened. Plus however long it takes AT&T to get the datecenter back up and running.

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  • jimothypetrojimothypetro Member Posts: 1,437

    I'm looking foward to WoW.... but... wouldn't it be hilarious if all that data got ruined and WoW was gone forever mhuhahahaha!

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  • SoulkeelSoulkeel Member Posts: 145
         No that would really not be cool...but i'm more worried about if everyone is ok at the place.

  • rabbitblastrabbitblast Member Posts: 9


    Originally posted by moukin
    Nah.  I'm certain they have tons of backups of their game data and such.  The only thing that would be totally destroyed from the servers going down might be a few hours of character info. 

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    Assuming the backups weren't in the same place. And I have a feeling they were. I think the best way for all the junkies to handle it is to assume their characters are gone, and when they are able to log back on, maybe they will be surprised to have a character.

    In any case, if you lose a character in a beta for whatever reason, you are an absolute loser to get mad.

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  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263
    lol... just had to post that...

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  • sweetpipesweetpipe Member Posts: 7

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    I find that hilarious that WoW had a tornadoe hit their hardware and flooded their servers. Call me evil, but it's still freakin hilarious. LOL

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  • DjinDjin Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 3,263
    Be thankful that no one got hurt, or died...

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  • omgzergrushomgzergrush Member Posts: 9

    Yeah, it's all nice and fine no one got hurt or anything. Still wouldve thought that a company as rich as blizzard would have had backups offsite and not within the same building. Heck, thats part of what network people have to learn to get their basic Net+ certification is to know that natural disasters will distroy one site an dyou need another site with the backups.

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  • Narco28Narco28 Member Posts: 300

    so what do YOU do when not playing WOW beta?

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  • cabertosscabertoss Member Posts: 10

    I... uh, break out my old accounts and post on forums that I never really visited often.

    I need another option to vote on :(

  • TurntablesTurntables Member Posts: 4

    Any word yet on whether they were smart enough to place the servers in a different location? Were the beta characters saved? Think they will put a life preserver around each server? LOL

    I still think it's funny, even if it's kinda disappointing to the poor guys in the closed beta. Of course, things like this are always funnier from people on the outside.

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  • moukinmoukin Member Posts: 278
    Well, they made no additional announcements when they said the servers were back online.  I'm assuming that if they had lost any data, they would have said so.  Testers seem to be back online and playing for a couple days now with no problems.

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  • MikeheyMikehey Member Posts: 3

    So, does that mean that no one lost their characters or did only a few? From the annoucement of the new server and new closed beta testers it seems like they are already ready to expand what hardware they had, but are they ready yet or are half of the hardware still destroyed?

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  • VenomspitterVenomspitter Member Posts: 3

    I'm sure there are some people here that are in the closed beta, we need them to state whether or not their players were comprimised or not.  bump for that info please.

    I really want to play the open beta so that I can have a chance to check out the game since I missed the stress test (sounded like it was crashing very often, so I don't know if I missed much anyways).

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