WoW v1.10 -- now with weather!

Actually, the patch weighs in at around 25MB for those who weren't out of date before.

Ummm... not only does it weigh in at 25 MB, but it also does not include any *new* instances. Just changes to the current ones.

It seems like most of your tidbits about the patch are wrong. Perhaps you should actually review the patch notes before posting.

Too bad none can play...the servers have been delayed twice today, and now blizz has no ETA on their uptime...15$/month*5 mil subscribers=75$mil per month*12months=$900mil per yr PLUS the cost of the game and apparantly blizz still can't provide reliable servers...

Keegan is exactly right. The fact that there is a new patch and it has weather effects in only certain regions of the game world (I guess clouds never travel in Azeroth) is not news. The real news is that 5.5 hours after they were supposed to be done, there is no end is sight. Blizzard is notoriously unreliable, and it unexcusable. The fact that I get timeouts on the offical WoW website realm status page, is not encouraging.

2&3 - Is this the first MMO youve played? it happens deal with it, its called technology and nothing working the way you plan and having to deal with new issues that pop up when millions of ppl are trying to play at once. Regardless how much money blizz makes each month that doesnt make people trouble shoot any faster.

I agree with the above comments. Will we be refunded a pro-rated amount according to how long the downtime is? I haven't been able to play for about 12 hours now. Before you know it, days will have passed...
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This was to be expected with this patch. Why Blizzard suggested the servers would be up on time is the real issue. They've added the usual updates, but the weather implementation was certain to cause some problems due to the scope of something like that.

I want the servers up too, but I'd rather the game be playable when they come up than the nightmares some of us have with the early months of the game.

4, this is exactly the reason not to patch every server simultaneously. If they patched the servers one at a time, like some other MMOs do, they would have realized the extent of the problem, at been able to keep the other realms up unpatched. What Blizzard has done today is analagous to a Fortune 500 company upgrading every Windows PC to XP SP2 at the same time, and only then realizing that it breaks one of their critical applications. It is simply bad policy.

You know, shit happens and I have no problem with that, I can wait; I despise how Blizz handles that from a PR perspective though, a little more than "we've run into some issues" wouldn't hurt, in fact I'm sure players would be a little more understanding.

I'm at work and I don't care!

kek

7, you don't know the network architecture supporting the WoW server farm. Comparing a standalone PC upgrade to an application cluster is like comparing water to wine.

Patch Size = 25mb (as previously stated)
New High Level Instances = 0 (to correct the blog post further)
Current High Level Instances Reitemized = 4 (Scholomance, Stratholme, Blackrock Depths, & Blackrock Spire; I think thats what Joystiq meant to say)

personaly it seems like #3 is being sarcastic but thats just me hoping for the best.

I love you all. But I do get annoyed with blizzard. But... Stuff happens. When "god" is angry with us nerds, he sends the 1s and 0s to secret hiding places. Thus a glitch is born and we are sent to our digitally deprived hell... ~_X

Well, it's now 11:47 pm central time on patch day, and the servers are still down. Blizzards been having major server problems since christmas, but this is a new record. Think of all the kids who will have to wait till tommorow afternoon to see the rain in Elwyyn forest.
Oh well, back to Oblivion for me!

Cmon people, just play Guild Wars. It's been released for nearly a year in the US and the server has been down once, yes that's right, once. My friend *played* WoW but with the lines sometime exceeding 500 people it wasnt worth the 20 bucks (australian) per month. Guild Wars never has a line becuase of some special streaming server system or something,(dont hold my word for it) and the developers are mainly old Blizzard people who worked on Diablo 2 and some even on WoW. Also the WoW patch installer is a bit of a annoyance, whereas Guld Wars streams all patches when you load it up, and sometimes for big updats it will stream data whilts you play or whilst you sit at the login screen. think about it, and make the switch.

It's amazing how expensive things are, you know. Our bathroom looks like crap before we had a fire, and it's going to cost $7,000 just to fix it up to where it was before! RIDICULOUS!

Why do all the websites that are reporting the 1.10 patch keep stating that there are new High Level instances? There are NO new instances with this patch. Existing instances have been changed, priest class changes, weather, and new epics. Thats all.