Trouble in Expansion Paradise
With just hours (midnight!) from the release of Wrath of the Lich King, the servers have been plagued with all sorts of problem and maintenance has been extended numerous times. If you’re looking to pick up the game as soon as it’s released, one has to wonder if the servers will be up, running, and stable after you get home and everyone else and their mother is trying to login at the same time. It appears they did fix some rather glaring issues in the process.
Apparently there was a bug that allowed you to achieve free pvp gear, and this has been addressed. Additionally there were some mail problems, and it looks like these were fixed too. While I would’ve loved some pvp gear for free (who wouldn’t!?) the bug has been fixed and all pvp gear purchased has been removed, so all of those people swarming the Champion’s Hall did so for nothing after all!
My hope is that all this hullaballoo and extended maintenance gave them time to properly prepare for launch time. I don’t have a pre-ordered copy or anything like that, but I will be happily waiting in line this evening to pick up my expansion copy. Chances are that I won’t getting very much done this evening…but it’ll be fun right? I’ve heard rumors of some people dressing up as characters or some such, but I’ll believe that when I see it. I don’t think my upper-class suburban town will go for that sort of thing, but I’d be amused to see it.
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