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Many realms back online after emergency maintenance
Realms are finally starting to come online after today's emergency maintenance. Most servers seem to be up and available now, though whether that will be the case for the rest of the day remains to be seen. It looks like they actually did manage to make progress on the issues, too.Obviously, the free PvP gear is gone. The prices have been fixed and the purchased items removed from players' bags as expected. They've also made progress on the mail issue. Many players logging in now are finding their mailboxes packed full of the things they were missing after yesterday's extremely extended maintenance. Not everyone has received their mail yet (I haven't), but it's going to take some time as Blizzard mentioned. It's just nice to see they've made progress even with all of the other problems going on.Now that they're up, let's hope they stay that way and Wrath of the Lich King has a clean, smooth launch.Edit: Thank you to MechChef for reminding me about the official realm status page. It looks like only a small handful of servers are still down.
Official forums temporarily set to read only
As soon as players could access them, the official forums went up in flames. Downtime, PvP gear bugs, the mail debacle, and the usual game balance crying. The forums were an utter mess. I think all of us have enough experience with those forums to know that people can't keep things to one thread, and with increased traffic due to downed servers... well, it got ugly.It apparently became bad enough that select forums had to be switched over to Read Only mode for improved accessibility, Zarhym says. I assume this is a response to very, very seriously increased traffic on the official forums. The forums (and the official website) went up and down throughout maintenance today, keeping many players in the dark about what was going on. Communication with the playerbase is one of the primary roles of the community managers, and it's really hard to do that when the forums are in the state they were. I'm a regular poster on my realm forums and it's a bit jarring not being able to post there, but it's for the best.
