official World of Warcraft

[Shadrack]

Im sure False advertising is different from EULA and also different from country to country.

Contact the authorities, then. Blizzard must be brought down immediately!

[Lexcyn]

lol you guys are funny. Just sleep and in the morning play then. That's what I will be doing.

[DrCheese]

I had to laugh a bit, did people *really* need to relog at 12am for it to become active? At most I would have thought a /logout and then straight back to your character would have done it.

I did wonder why stormwind was suddenly empty :p

[the evn show]

Surely they can get done for false advertisement or something?.

False advertising legislation is designed to prevent misleading advertising not so much to punish for doing it.

Whenever a company is found to be engaging in the practice the worst they can expect to see is an

order to make a correction. In the overwhelming majority of cases the action is to stop advertising - and that's

the end of it.

Blizzard is going to stop advertising their "buy the expansion before the launch and play at midnight" the day

the expansion happens (because the number of people who can go back in time and make use of that offer

is vanishingly small). There's nothing to for a regulatory agency to follow up on.

You wouldn't reasonably be able to argue Blizzard was deceptive anyway. The sold you a copy of Cataclsym

which you can (and presumably did) digitally download. It's certainly available as of right now, and has been

for more than a month. The "play at midnight" bit has the standard block of provisions: requires a computer,

internet connection, paid-up account with game time on it, subject to maintenance: scheduled or otherwise.

They'll have certainly provided that (even if access is sporadic or limited due to unscheduled maintenance) and

so you'll have no position to complain from. In the worst case blizzard will do what they've always done:

"Sorry about the downtime, all accounts have had 1 day added to them for free." there's no regulatory office

in the world that would consider any further action.

I had to laugh a bit, did people *really* need to relog at 12am for it to become active?

It's no different from *NIX and Windows systems requiring a user to log out/in so they update their user permisisons.

This isn't really surprising.

Unrelated: race changed. So long undead: you used to be good, but your glory days are long gone.

Edit

I got a random tell from some nobody while I was waiting for the zeplin to Northrend: "How does it feel to spend all the time getting your gear just to start over."

You may as well ask me how it feels to win a chess game only to have to set all the pawns back on the second row again. Not only am I happy I won, but I had fun

playing the game with a friend and if we're setting the pieces up then it means we're probably going to play again. How do you think I feel? I'm happy and excited!

[bjoswald]

Well, I finally got JP-capped this morning after buying the Shadowcraft heirloom set for my soon-to-be worgen rogue. So excited!

[El Marto]

level 18 worgen :D

[Minifig]

Surely they can get done for false advertisement or something?

First, Don't call me Shirley. Second Blizzard is entitled to allow or not allow you service at any point in time. You're leasing game space on their servers to play their property. If you think this is such a big deal, you really, really need to mature a little bit and realize that even Blizzard has problems .. imagine if 12.5 million people were trying to access YOUR internet, all at once, ... just how bad it'd be.

Go to bed kiddo, it'll be there when you wake up in the morning.

[Noveed]

First, Don't call me Shirley. Second Blizzard is entitled to allow or not allow you service at any point in time. You're leasing game space on their servers to play their property. If you think this is such a big deal, you really, really need to mature a little bit and realize that even Blizzard has problems .. imagine if 12.5 million people were trying to access YOUR internet, all at once, ... just how bad it'd be.

Go to bed kiddo, it'll be there when you wake up in the morning.

Ease up on the cockyness there grandad otherwise your head will be quite far up year rear end.

if 12.5 million people were going to connect via my connection I would make sure I was prepared, pretty stupid example seen as though they never learn from past two expansions.

I won't call you shirly I'll call you a Muppet.

[Slane]

So Athene hit 85 in like 6 hours. Last I saw Smasher was about to hit 84 around the 6 hour mark. Smasher leveling for wowmarathon for charity. 100% solo questing. So 85 in 10 hours?

[DrCheese]

if 12.5 million people were going to connect via my connection I would make sure I was prepared, pretty stupid example seen as though they never learn from past two expansions.

eh, there's not much point in them spending a fortune on the resources that would only be required for a few hours or so after release. The EU login server returned to normal within 30/45 minutes

It's no different from *NIX and Windows systems requiring a user to log out/in so they update their user permisisons.

This isn't really surprising.

Yes silly me, I realise now that cata users received a message at 12am telling them to log out/back in so that explains it. My copy doesn't arrive until later today so I didn't see it.

[treemonster]

time for some cataclysm!!!!

[Shaun N.]

And World 85 goes to......

Athene!!!

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/neptulon/forscience/advanced

[Shaun N.]

Ease up on the cockyness there grandad otherwise your head will be quite far up year rear end.

if 12.5 million people were going to connect via my connection I would make sure I was prepared, pretty stupid example seen as though they never learn from past two expansions.

I won't call you shirly I'll call you a Muppet.

HAHA! WIN! - That really was demeaning Mini and I'm glad you got the response Nov gave.

[treemonster]

And World 85 goes to......

Athene!!!

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/neptulon/forscience/advanced

cheating euros!!!! lolz haha JK gratz to him. used to enjoy his videos.

didn't he get banned at wotlk launch for exploiting to 80?

HAHA! WIN! - That really was demeaning Mini and I'm glad you got the response Nov gave.

tbh if you don't know what to expect for at teh very least the first hour or two of a wow expansion launch, and then qq about it, at the very least you deserve to be made fun of just a little bit.

unless it's your very first wow expansion/mmo launch. in which case welcome to mmo's XD

i see this kind o thing(both downtime on world servers and qq) in every single launch. blizz does better than most mmo's in this regard though.

[game_over]

Picked it up from ASDA on the way to work for ?24... now to just get work out of the way :(

[Shaun N.]

cheating euros!!!! lolz haha JK gratz to him. used to enjoy his videos.

didn't he get banned at wotlk launch for exploiting to 80?

Yea, But he did it in instances, this time he did it outside so it not illegal :D

[treemonster]

2 hours of slack questing and i'm at ~50% till 81 replaced my welfare epic staff on the first real quest in hyjal. first few quests were pretty intense and tonnes of alliance everywhere but only got ganked once when i was at 10% hp.

looking at the rate of guild exp it's going to be a hardcore grind for my guild to get anywhere. i'm sure large guilds will burn through it fast just getting to 85 though.

4th coffee on ~4hours sleep and still going strong. :D

[Shaun N.]

I hit 81 at 3am last night, got up at 6 for work. been here 4 hours so far and eeergh. I was a little hyper this morning but that all drained away. Must...push ....on...

[Slane]

82 in 5 hours.

83 needs 4.4 million XP.

[SMELTN]

So the servers are not going down today at all for maintenance or anythign?

[MikeFu84]

So the servers are not going down today at all for maintenance or anythign?

Nope! http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1251976654

[Lexcyn]

Best Buy fails. People were waiting all night (I was 15th in line, aka last to get the mouse), but instead of handing the MMO mice out to people as they went in, everyone just mad rushed to the game, and ran in line... then they were giving the mice out in line instead of the people who were waiting all night... needless to say there was a TON of nerd rage, lol. I maintained my spot somehow and was still the last person to get the mouse so people were not mad at me. But as I was leaving there was a fight developing.

Anyways ... I will have to wait until I get home to play :(

[game_over]

Best Buy fails. People were waiting all night (I was 15th in line, aka last to get the mouse), but instead of handing the MMO mice out to people as they went in, everyone just mad rushed to the game, and ran in line... then they were giving the mice out in line instead of the people who were waiting all night... needless to say there was a TON of nerd rage, lol. I maintained my spot somehow and was still the last person to get the mouse so people were not mad at me. But as I was leaving there was a fight developing.

Anyways ... I will have to wait until I get home to play :(

hahah quality, nerds fighting over a mouse

[treemonster]

i got pked by a meanie hunter while i was fighting a mob and i ended up doing the morning forums thing for 2 hours and just needed to go back to bed. lolz. i wonder if there will be more pvp tonight than there was this morning.

[Minifig]

:happy: