It would appear the Mayans are a little sloppy with their Armageddon predictions \u2013 the world actually ended yesterday.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, the 29th of December, a day which shall live in infamy, the European World of Warcraft servers went down for nearly a full day. Keyboards were destroyed, families torn apart and Blizzard will likely be growing a beard and frequenting the same shady bar as THQ within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n
An official sticky thread on the Battle.net forums quickly racked up a staggering 1000 posts of angry gamers threatening to financially and publically ruin the developer \u2013 this being the downside of having a player base of several millions.<\/p>\n
Server issues were being reported as early as the 28th, but on the 29th they quickly became unplayable for nearly 18 hours \u2013 a significant downtime for such a massive server. To Blizzard\u2019s credit, they posted hourly updates on the status of the server and the repair, before they finally went back up around 10pm.<\/p>\n
Were you affected by the server outage? Did you spew vitriol over the Blizzard forums? Share some more of it below.<\/p>\n
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