It is sort of a regular tradition for Blizzard to take their servers down early each Tuesday morning. As in today's Tuesday morning.
The downtimes come in two flavors. Typically, it is down for the whole morning and if you are on the east coast that drags on to almost the mid afternoon. Sometimes, you are lucky and Blizzard serves you just 15 minutes of downtime because all Blizzard wants to do is reboot each realm.
Unfortunately, today was not one of those days. Blizzard wanted to ready their servers for a new patch. So they took their servers down for a number of hours.
World of Warcraft, a multi-billion dollar business invented by California game software company Blizzard and owned by French corporation Vivendi has ten million players worldwide. Some of the things they do are kinda funny.
Welcome to a hopefully humorous look at World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is many things and the meaning of the wht it is varies by what each person considers significant.
Programmers might be fascinated and engaged by the technology itself; highly customizable and sophisticated.
Gamers like it for being a cutting edge MMO RPG.
Adults and kids alike enjoy its social aspects; communication/collaboration with others.
Collectors and puzzle-solvers find plenty of items to collect and puzzles to solve.
Some, perhaps a very few, regardless of their involvement in the game if any, will gaze at it from a distance — ponder upon what they see — and perhaps wear a small grin.
This blog is for those with perspective, not just a narrow interest, and the ability to perceive things in context.
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