Nethaera Tells us:
One of our internet service providers will be performing maintenance on Thursday, June 29th beginning at 10:00 PM PDT and lasting until 2:00 AM PDT Friday morning. This maintenance should not affect any play experience during that time. The following realms are located on the World of Warcraft site where the maintenance is taking place:
Cenarion Circle
Cenarius
Hyjal
Lightbringer
Uther
Eight more realms are eligible for the Paid Character Transfer. You can now transfer characters off of these realms:
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For a full list of eligible realms, please click here. We will continue to scale up the list of realms to accommodate more players as quickly as possible.
To learn more about Paid Character Transfer, please visit the Paid Character Transfer FAQ.
We’d like to thank the many Blizzard gamers who made the trip to Louisville, Kentucky for the WSVG event last week. It was an exciting weekend of tournaments and events involving StarCraft, Warcraft III, and World of Warcraft. The attending Blizzard team had a great time hanging out with fellow players and hosting the unofficial tournaments in the Blizzard BYOC sections of the event. Congratulations to the winners of those tournaments, listed below:
World of Warcraft Leveling Race
Winner: Obs, who leveled a Human Rogue to level 10 and change in exactly two hours.World of Warcraft Warsong Gulch Meatgrinder
Winner: Clan Ænigma of Burning LegionWorld of Warcraft Stratholme Race
Winner: Clan Ænigma of Burning Legion, who killed the Baron in just over 40 minutes with template characters wearing Dungeon Set 1 Armor.StarCraft: Brood War 1v1 Tournament
Winner: verGe.WizardWarcraft III: 2v2 Tournament
Winner: u5.NilknarfLP and u5.InclneratorDotA All-Stars Tournament
Winner: Clan r3 (Junkey, ShaDe, daveyoo, BusCH-TiMe, Covey)
A photo slideshow of WSVG: Louisville can be found here. We’d also like to invite Blizzard gamers in the Dallas, Texas area to come join us from July 5-9 at the CPL Summer Championship. For more information, and a special offer for the venue at which the event will take place, please check out our WSVG: Dallas page.
A small patch was applied along with today’s maintenance, with one fix:
We have applied a small patch as a part of today’s maintenance for the following issue:
[li]Fixed a soft lock that some players were experiencing within the game or while logging in.
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**UPDATE**
Just an update to this patch.
There is additional testing needed on this patch and is expected to be applied tommorrow 06/28/06.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause in the meantime.
There will be no downtime as a result of this patch however.
We’ll keep you posted if anything changes.
You’re not alone. This topic seems to come up after every single patch, and Blizzard took some time to address the concern yesterday:
I’m not trying to disparage you, but this claim is made by someone after every single patch. Every single one.
If you have a lot of data on the matter, I would recommend posting it on the Bug Report forum, so that they can investigate this properly.
Keep in mind, that with random number generation, you might be in an unlucky streak. It can and does happen. By focusing your attention on it, you can easily convince yourself something is out of whack.
As far as I know, nothing has changed. However, we can certainly look into the matter.
The proof is in the pudding (whatever that means), so if you truly feel something has changed, get Blizzard some numbers to work with and report it to them.
