In the past 24 hours it seems that World of Warcraft has been having a few hiccups. Hiccups as in players can't log in to play and now that some of them can their characters aren't there anymore. The WoW forums are full of complaints from people who can't get past the authentication screen and a fix doesn't seem to have occurred yet. It's sad, but I'm pretty sure if this goes on for too long a nation wide riot will start.
As of this writing the last update from Blizzard was at 10:49 PDT last night and they explained that they are "still working on alleviating the Account Management issues, folks. You have my apologies for any delays in getting this issue resolved.” Even more troublesome is that now some people have been able to get on but their characters are missing. I don't know about you, but if I had spent a solid chunk of my life perfecting a character and then Blizzard lost it I'd be pretty angry at them. Hopefully they get it all fixed up soon and WoW players can return to their regularly scheduled clicking.
Matthew Razak is Destructoid's Associate editor and co-founder of film site
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11:30 AM on 07.12.2009
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@Chin35char
Funny, that's the same thing I thought about your comment. But then in the correct spelling. Retard.
I mean, most WoW players are too far gone now anyway.
Aion is the new hotness
Derp. If their accounts had been hacked, the hacker would have changed the password and they wouldn't be able to log in at all. On such a grand scale, I honestly don't think there's a huge burst of scammers suddenly getting a huge number of accounts right now.
Holy crap dude, it's a game, chillax.
And, in a sense, he's right. The issue is that the game servers are unable to find the character's literal in game location, and GM's are having to manually assign the character a location.
On a quasi-related note, why is that WoW has this incredibly polarizing effect on a gaming population? Jesus, it's nearly as bad as console fanboys. And both sides of the fence are pretty dumb.
I long for the day when gaming is rid of this type of behavior.
I'd be pretty terrified what might happen if Blizzard's servers went kaboom or something :P
It's the weekend, and a slow news day, so Matthew took an news story that might not be breaking news to you, but would be to other people. Sure he sensationalized it a bit, but it's such a standard journalism practice, I don't blame him for it.
The two of us are well aware of the keylogging issue, but that's because you and I play WoW: unfortunately for you, not everyone on this website plays the game, so they may not be aware of it. As far as I'm concerned, you should be happy Razak is introducing this otherwise low-key story to thousands of other concerned gamers, so maybe they can email Blizzard and ask for more suitable account protection.
That's that dude: get over it.
Like Magnalon said, get over it. Its a WoW story on Destructoid. There's no running dialog about the game like other sites.
Sincerely,
Tubatic
RE: the article, I've seen this same sort of thing happen a couple times over the past few years of playing the game, and its been an easy case of just waiting a few hours for the fog to clear. Business as usual. I certainly freaked out a tiny bit, but its important to remember that you're accessing your character from the server. If you're not seeing your character, it could very well just be a miscommunication between the client and server, with your character being there safe and sound all along.
Dtoid isn't my number one source for WoW info, but I dig that its getting some pretty frequent coverage.
News must be slow today.
"Hackers can transwer your character..."
Right, which this article isn't even about.
No need to jump all over Razak for not covering the story you want him to care about right this minute. I'm sure a kindly tip would suffice rather than being a jerk about the coverage in the comments.
Please tell me, you didn't create your account just so you can bitch about defending World of Warcraft and Blizzard?
Sucks for the WoW players, anyway. I cant stand the game myself, but clearly its a pain when a game aint working right.
Fracking WOW-tard kid...
Thanks C