WoW: Battle Reports

DeathsHand · 01-28-2005, 10:23 PM

Me and my friends and his friends are starting a guild on Mel'ganis... PvP server, if anyone's interested in starting a new character on a different server or is just getting into the game... We need more signatures (I refuse to ask random people or spam the general chat)... Even if you make a character, sign it, and never play it... We want our guild, damnit!

I'm the one with the charter and my character's name is Lawanda...

Professor S · 02-03-2005, 04:42 PM

Well all of my 7 characters (including a lvl 27, a lvl 18 and a lvl 13) have all dissappeared from Eonar and have been gone for 3 three days. I'm about to cancel my subscription and write a scathing editorial of how Blizzard could botch this up so badly. How they could create such a great game but be so incompetent on the maintenance end. I'm so pissed right now...

Jonbo298 · 02-03-2005, 04:55 PM

Wow Strangler, thats seriously ****ed up

I'd be peeved as hell if I lost all my characters in CoH

DeathsHand · 02-03-2005, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by The Strangler

Well all of my 7 characters (including a lvl 27, a lvl 18 and a lvl 13) have all dissappeared from Eonar and have been gone for 3 three days. I'm about to cancel my subscription and write a scathing editorial of how Blizzard could botch this up so badly. How they could create such a great game but be so incompetent on the maintenance end. I'm so pissed right now...

You have SEVEN characters? Jesus...

This may seem like a stupid question (although I had a similar problem that I didn't notice for about a day and a half, mostly due to my characters being on 2 different servers, so when one has problems I try the other), but have you actually selected Eonar and moved to the character select screen?

For awhile I thought that Aggramar was down because it wasn't listed at the top with the other servers I have characters on, then I noticed it was still on the list, but it said I had no characters...

But when I double clicked it, they were still there and playable...

On a side note: I can't stand all these people bitching and moaning about every little problem (although characters being gone for 3 days isn't little)...

But maybe that's because I've really only run into a few minor problems (servers down for 2-3 hours maybe on very rare occasions, bursts of bad lag) and so when people bitch about crap, I assume they're running into pretty much the same crap to which I say: Downtime and lag happens...

But like I said... 3 days with characters missing... If you havn't already, maybe you should try contacting Blizzard rather than cancelling your account and writing a big mean editorial about how **** happens and you don't wanna deal with it...

DarkMaster · 02-03-2005, 06:50 PM

What the hell, nothing has happened to my character on Eonar. I've never heard of character's disappearing from a MMORPG server, that's a huge deal. Unless there's something you're doing wrong, contact Blizzard immediately.

Jonbo298 · 02-03-2005, 06:52 PM

CoH has a very very very rare bug where characters get deleted on a server for no reason. Devs are still trying to track it down but because of its rarity, they are having a hard time tracking it down (rare as in 1 in every 100,000 subscribers or something)

Canyarion · 02-04-2005, 03:27 AM

So how are things going with the character?

I also have a reason to be disapointed...
I was really hyped about getting a horse instead of a stupid mechanical strider (I'm a Gnome). I was almost exhaulted at Stormwind, was trying hard to level and save up money.

Then I found out that you can't get exhaulted in this patch yet (at least in EU).

So that means no horsie for this Gnome!

DeathsHand · 02-04-2005, 04:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Canyarion

So how are things going with the character?

I also have a reason to be disapointed...
I was really hyped about getting a horse instead of a stupid mechanical strider (I'm a Gnome). I was almost exhaulted at Stormwind, was trying hard to level and save up money.

Then I found out that you can't get exhaulted in this patch yet (at least in EU).

So that means no horsie for this Gnome!

Wait wait wait... So Mechanical Striders are stupid... But gnomes aren't?

Professor S · 02-04-2005, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by DeathsHand

You have SEVEN characters? Jesus...

This may seem like a stupid question (although I had a similar problem that I didn't notice for about a day and a half, mostly due to my characters being on 2 different servers, so when one has problems I try the other), but have you actually selected Eonar and moved to the character select screen?

For awhile I thought that Aggramar was down because it wasn't listed at the top with the other servers I have characters on, then I noticed it was still on the list, but it said I had no characters...

But when I double clicked it, they were still there and playable...

On a side note: I can't stand all these people bitching and moaning about every little problem (although characters being gone for 3 days isn't little)...

But maybe that's because I've really only run into a few minor problems (servers down for 2-3 hours maybe on very rare occasions, bursts of bad lag) and so when people bitch about crap, I assume they're running into pretty much the same crap to which I say: Downtime and lag happens...

But like I said... 3 days with characters missing... If you havn't already, maybe you should try contacting Blizzard rather than cancelling your account and writing a big mean editorial about how **** happens and you don't wanna deal with it...

I've done everything you mentioned from the get go. Still not there. I;m going to check again today but if they're not there I'm going to contact Blizzrd and bitch.

DeathsHand · 02-04-2005, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by The Strangler

I've done everything you mentioned from the get go. Still not there. I;m going to check again today but if they're not there I'm going to contact Blizzrd and bitch.

Does "done everything you mentioned from the get go" include simply asking blizzard what's up and if they can fix it?

Canyarion · 02-06-2005, 08:22 PM

Ok the European beta ends today (tomorrow for you). It was fun!

Now I just have to say farewell to my cute Gnome.

Anyway, I couldn't hit 40.

I'm hoping for some nice action like when the US beta ended.

Canyarion · 02-08-2005, 01:36 PM

Ok, my time of free WoW is over. I loved it.

A thing that I wanted to do was check how long I had played. (you do this by typing /played) But I forgot.

It must have been.... 5 whole days I'm afraid.

Can someone who's arond level 36 check how long they've played?

Or just anyone.... tell us how long you've played and what level the character is!

Professor S · 02-08-2005, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by DeathsHand

Does "done everything you mentioned from the get go" include simply asking blizzard what's up and if they can fix it?

Well smart-ass, I contacted Blizzard a week ago and received an auto-reply saying I would have a real response in 24 hours. I have heard nothing as yet, just as I thought I wouldn't. The servers are constantly down longer than expected on maintenance days, I have been booted repeatedly on non-maintenance days. Thankfully I've never been on a server that has a queue at all, much less for several hours. The inablility to transfer characters from server to server doesn't help this problem either.

Blizzard needs to fix these issues regardless of whatever excuses or rationalizations people want to make for them (God knows the forums are full of them who attack anyone who dares criticize WoW server management). I know I'm not the only one experiencing these problems. All you need to to do to see this is visit their forums. Now having a glitchy start-up is one thing, but this game has been going for a while now and the problems seem to have gotten worse, not better.

The game is excellent. There is no doubting this. But when characters with untold hours invested in them are deleted, people are repeatedly booted and their customer care department does not even attempt to meet the goals they've set for themselves, something needs to be fixed and fixed soon or else EQ2 will become more and more attractive to more and more people, including myself.

Its a shame when the inferior game gets consideration because the superior game can't run itself competently.

DeathsHand · 02-08-2005, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by The Strangler

Well smart-ass, I contacted Blizzard a week ago and received an auto-reply saying I would have a real response in 24 hours. I have heard nothing as yet, just as I thought I wouldn't. The servers are constantly down longer than expected on maintenance days, I have been booted repeatedly on non-maintenance days. Thankfully I've never been on a server that has a queue at all, much less for several hours. The inablility to transfer characters from server to server doesn't help this problem either.

Blizzard needs to fix these issues regardless of whatever excuses or rationalizations people want to make for them (God knows the forums are full of them who attack anyone who dares criticize WoW server management). I know I'm not the only one experiencing these problems. All you need to to do to see this is visit their forums. Now having a glitchy start-up is one thing, but this game has been going for a while now and the problems seem to have gotten worse, not better.

The game is excellent. There is no doubting this. But when characters with untold hours invested in them are deleted, people are repeatedly booted and their customer care department does not even attempt to meet the goals they've set for themselves, something needs to be fixed and fixed soon or else EQ2 will become more and more attractive to more and more people, including myself.

Its a shame when the inferior game gets consideration because the superior game can't run itself competently.

Alls I know is that different people have different tolerence for problems... A problem that one person might just shrug off and wait patiently to be resolved might cause another to go flying off the handle immeadiately, posting a bunch of stuff on the forums (insane stuff like demanding another entire free month of play for a problem that has only lasted 2 days... I saw this happening when the game first launched and they had a few servers down for 2 or 3 days)...

Like I've said, I've had characters on 3 different servers and for a long time played WoW for basically every waking hour when I wasn't eating or at work... And the only problems I've run into were rare bursts of lag, maybe 3 or 4 periods of downtime lasting a matter of a few hours... Not including maintainence which usually happens while I'm not online anyways...

I think these extreme cases like yours are very rare... I think when/if you get your characters back, it'll probably never happen again... And if anybody is having a gaming experience similar to the one I've been having (meaning only a few periods of downtime) and they're still bitching on the forums, well then they need to chill the fudge out...

And one last thing, have you started another character on another server during your downtime on Eonar, or have you been letting your subscription go to complete waste? If you have, how has your experience on the new server been... And if you havn't, why the heck havn't you?