European mass server shutdown sparks tempers
Have some sympathy for us European players, as we are once again experiencing troubles beyond the 1.9.1 stuttering and the usual lag. Thanks to a data centre move, thirty EU realms are down until at least tomorrow morning (maintenance usually ends on Wednesday mornings), leaving players flocking to secondary realms and huge login queues all round.
The forums are full of extremely angry users, tempers are running high, and the few people I did manage to speak to ingame were all creating new characters and furious that they couldn't access their normal servers.
Even some of the realms marked 'Recommended' had queues of over 400 during the peak hours, and most of my characters were inaccessible--the client refused to get as far as the character list. This might not be so unusual except I use over ten different servers (mainly so I can keep in touch with friends)--adding another to the list seems a little overkill. Fortunately I get an additional 4 days of play for my trouble--if only that were multiplied by the number of characters I can't reach!
The Ahn'Qiraj world events and post-Christmas boom seem to have combined to make this the worst WoW experience yet--but creating new game servers is definitely not an overnight job, and it's frustrating but not the end of the world that I can't log in tonight. What surprises me is the number of level 1 characters apparently flooding the servers that are still up--some people just have to get their fix.
