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Boot
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[Copied from Slashdot]

Chris writes "FileFront has broke the news from Blizzard that they are no longer placing their highly popular MMORPG on store shelves, due to the recent server problems reported by Slashdot on Tuesday. Denying rumors that they had asked several stores to pull the game from shelves, Blizzard rep Gil Shrif is quoted as saying: 'We're just being careful not to release additional copies to be sold until we feel the game servers can support additional players.' The online store on Blizzard's website shows the game to be out of stock. No word on whether or not this will affect the Korean release."

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flynnmj
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thank god...that needed to happen.

Valewalker
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so damn popular they cant keep up with it.....thats a good and bad thing...but hell yes...Stop the madness.....they need to tweak things....offer server transfers to overpopulated servers and offer which servers per horde or alliance.....im sure they can balance some populations this way.

Its all a matter of when......I think they should hire temps and triple there developer support staff for just the time being......get this fixed now....asap....and then launch WOW sales across the board again....

Never thought a game being so popular can be so bad^^......records busting.....servers overworked and burdened......amazing how big this was.

Just think when battlegrounds is in place...more PVPers will wana join ......most I know will only come when theres a point to PVP...taking over keeps,zones, rewards....etc......and its comming..

Just thinking about all those wanting to buy this game having to wait.....there gona get slammed again with sales....lets hope they prepare for a huge server registration when they do....or im gona have to send some hate mail to customer service for there stupidity.

Eq2-burned the Dvd
WoW- bored
DnD- very bored
Lineage 2 (private server) lvl 5X Phantom Summoner

Scythdran
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Yeah... we knew this like, weeks ago. Or at least i did - and i live in Europe.

flynnmj
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Scythdran wrote:Yeah... we knew this like, weeks ago. Or at least i did - and i live in Europe.


wow!! you are probably the coolest thing to ever walk into this forum.  you rock scythdran lol

apollo808
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flynnmj wrote:


Scythdran wrote:Yeah... we knew this like, weeks ago. Or at least i did - and i live in Europe.


[P]wow!! you are probably the coolest thing to ever walk into this forum.  you rock scythdran lol


LOL.  I wonder how long its going to take Blizz to fix all this stuff.  Server lag, unbalanced servers, broken classes, tons of little bugs, adding battlegrounds, pvp honor system.  Thats all the stuff they have admitted and promised to fix I think.  Hero classes (expansion??) whats the status on those?

Valewalker
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Nobody knows with Tyrens generalized answers....nothing specific ...

I am also very sceptical on these promises.  Reading Beta Tester Mages gripe about these promised spell addons still not implemented and bugs not fixed since beta for Mage class......

I will believe it when I see it

Eq2-burned the Dvd
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Howard
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Mage's might need a few more spells but I would rather let the higher levels have some fun with battlegrounds rather than fixing mages spells. Just my opinion.

Scythdran
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"wow!! you are probably the coolest thing to ever walk into this forum. you rock scythdran lol"

You're real clever. And you can't walk in a messageboard, dumbass.

flynnmj
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walk...man i can run.  and btw ur sig is reallllllyyyy super ugly  ^^

learn to use the quote function ^^

Greever
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Hey, things could be worse.... the game could be backed by NC Soft support...

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Scythdran
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"walk...man i can run. and btw ur sig is reallllllyyyy super ugly ^^

learn to use the quote function ^^"

I think you'll find i'm using proper English. Seriously... you can talk. While my signature is reasonably artistic to a degree - yours is just gibberish. Come back when you can actually argue properly, yeah?

flynnmj
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Scythdran wrote:"walk...man i can run. and btw ur sig is reallllllyyyy super ugly ^^

learn to use the quote function ^^"

I think you'll find i'm using proper English. Seriously... you can talk. While my signature is reasonably artistic to a degree - yours is just gibberish. Come back when you can actually argue properly, yeah?


Above is an example of the quote function. 

I never insulted your grammatical skills so I don't see the relevance of the "proper english" comment.  I sometimes type in abbreviations, sorry.  My sig is not gibberish btw (by the way) it includes character info for my FFXI and WoW characters. 

What I was commenting on was the arrogance in your post.  This is an informational post.  Now consider for a moment that not everyone may be abreast of all the latest and greatest in the world of gaming (as you so obviously are) and that they might come here for their information.  Hmmm, now all of a sudden your comment seems out of line, does it not? 

and your sig is still ugly.

 

apollo808
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IBL

You guys gotta chill out.  Take your arguement to the little PM funtion they offer and have a blast crtizing grammer and sigs.  Scy your sig isn't ugly and fly your grammer is very good.  Now kiss and make up boys...lets stop trying to see who's e-peen is bigger, because its obviously mine LOL. 

[Edited by apollo808 at 5:13 PM on 1/21/2005]

Valewalker
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About the mage and battlegrounds:  I was basically saying when it comes to blizzards promises.....Ill believe it when I see it.  WIth anything they say will come.....i take it as a grain of salt.

As for sigs.....No I dont have one...But yes Scyth....Yours is ugly but so what...Atleast you have one....

But not picking on yah...its true...its ugly

 

*Scyth,

          If you drew that....the githyanki on the right needs some tweaking...the dude on the left is alright...the center head...remove that hand ...it looks good...add some background the whole black thing just blah....

But if you did draw that...cool....if you just snaged it from some site.....the artist needs some pointers ^^

 

No im not gona argue with you or grammar natzi you.....im not here to argue...just think its funny ...you gota admit though man its kinda rough looking.

[Edited by Valewalker at 7:17 PM on 1/21/2005]

Eq2-burned the Dvd
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Valewalker
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Greever wrote:Hey, things could be worse.... the game could be backed by NC Soft support...

May god stricketh thee down for utterng ## softs name here!!

 

Eq2-burned the Dvd
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DnD- very bored
Lineage 2 (private server) lvl 5X Phantom Summoner

bloc
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This is a horrendous.

There are at least another half million gamers waiting to buy this game. This is terrible news. If possible can someone at warcry ask for an ETA?

Howard
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Not even Blizzard can answer this question. Whenever the servers get back to decent standards that's when they will release the game.

Scythdran
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I never said my signature wasn't ugly. That's kind of the whole point. The drawings are scaled down from the originals to fit. When you want an undead signature, you don't want cute gothic girls and imbeciles with white paint on their faces - you want hideous, ugly creatures of nightmares. If you disagree, then well... you're wrong

flynnmj
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Joined: 7 Jul 2004

like,,,

image

[Edited by flynnmj at 10:39 PM on 1/22/2005]

flynnmj
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or maybe like this ... ?

image

bloc
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Joined: 19 Jan 2005

How about asking for a range of time?

The game is out, so I don't think the rule 'when it's done' is valid.

Are we talking Feb? or 2006? Maybe sometime in 2008. When EQ3 hits the shelves?

Blynd_Fayth
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Joined: 16 May 2004



flynnmj wrote:

or maybe like this ... ?

image


This is the most frightening image I've ever seen in my life.......I think I just wet myself.

DrathIceblood
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Joined: 25 Apr 2004

Why dont they just lock all the high population servers and let them join the low populations?

Gurgor
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Joined: 18 May 2004

This i did not want to hear, i have friends playing the game. I dont want to have to wait till like 2008 before they start rolling out copys of the game again, I want in now!

Valewalker
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Joined: 21 Jan 2004

I think FFXI had a great Server system....>From character creation you couldnt pick your server really...it sent you to the server by some random formula they did.....but it balanced out the servers.

Now before you jump the gun. Friends can still join friends via ingame world pass purchases.....they left growth room on servers for this invite abillity.....so friends can be together.....

Example server supports 5k people...but has a cap around 3.5k....leaving room for world pass invites to get buddys on the server with them.

Im sure theres more to there formula....but It really did spread out people evenly on servers ...well not perfectly but way better than WOW does it.

Thats the current problem is how they distribute population with servers..>I do agree once server hits a certain population it should be available to create on unless given some world pass by a friend over email to get on the server....

Also every damn time servers go down for the 20 main heavy pops...daggerspine is overloaded every damn time...and causing us to get lag outs and super slow downs to open windows for quests....

Its gotten pretty bad....so when servers go down....the spill over hits the low pop servers giving us a headache...

Dominos effect...pretty crapy also.

Eq2-burned the Dvd
WoW- bored
DnD- very bored
Lineage 2 (private server) lvl 5X Phantom Summoner

drewd
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Joined: 31 Jan 2005

crazy business =p

 
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