Server Fail

I don't know about the non-Llaners among the Nation, and what happened on your servers, but Llane last night took a dump in the middle of our raid. So much so that I had to go ahead and cancel the raid. I also didn't actually hear when the servers themselves came back online, but I do know that it was all of the Chicago data centre servers which were all that were effected or blown up, whichever you prefer.

Raid was canceled without issues, which is probably due to it being the end of an expansion. Many are nearing that point where I don't want to do anything besides raid, and maybe not even into that much anyway at the current moment. This got me thinking and asking the question, isn't this a great time to have a data centre failure? People will be less inclined to complain, demand refunds, or go crazy and threaten to murder their neighbours if the servers don't come back online within the next 10 minutes.

Now I am in no way saying some of this didn't go on, because it probably did, but I can only assume it was much less than normal. So let's think for a moment, I know for some of you this will be hard, but stay with me. If you were going to do some last minute maintenance or something of that nature without saying anything wouldn't now be the perfect time to do such a thing? Now I am not accusing anyone of anything, but it does seem quite possible doesn't it?

Let the conspiracy begin...

Lag You Say?

I know I am two days late talking about this, but I was lagging! Anyways, I don't know how the "lag" was on other servers, but it was bad enough on Llane that we had to cancel our ICC run after just two bosses. I really wasn't looking forward to the lag and how it would play out on the gunship. With everything that goes on during that encounter it just wasn't going to be pretty in my opinion. This sucks because this puts us behind progress wise for later in the week, but it was pretty unplayable. Here is just a few things which happened.

• Taking 5 minutes to break up stacks of flasks and pots
• 2 minutes for the fish feast to appear on the ground
• an unheard of amount of time to master loot an item to someone
• at least 5 minutes to accept the weekly quest
• Not knowing you were standing in DnD until you were dead
• When you got rezed you DC'd
• Trade lag that made it appear people were porting accross the screen
• Almost wiping on Deathwhisper(now that would have been embarrassing doing the weekly or not)

Those were just a few of them. This gets me wondering what actually happened and why it was going on. I am assuming during the maintenance something happened that we will never hear about. Maybe the hamsters died and there were no new ones at the pet store? For all I know they took away the limited attempts system on the end bosses of the wings in Icecrown Citadel. They removed the ability to collect the lovely charms in raids(so much for easy farming in Ulduar), and I assume they were also messing around with the Lich King encounter. I think we all know why on that one. Lately though Blizzard has been good about not letting people on the servers if there is something wrong that will really effect gameplay. This was obviously not the case. I really think they caved and just let people on. Now why? So we can play something that is unplayable and therefore complain about it? I guess the other argument is that people will complain about not being able to play. Did they let people on so they didn't have to give everyone a free day of play. I would say no because enough people will complain that we would get the free day anyway. I guess I would have to work there to understand their reasons, because for a company that has always been about their customer service something like this doesn't make sense to me.

Ok my rant is over, but be sure to tell me your opinion on the matter. Today is the last day to get what you have done to make a raid on time or actually attend. May you all get a love rocket.