WoW Beta Down

[Exo-Slayer]

World of warcraft Beta is down for the near future due totornado damage. Find out all the information here.

Quote[/b] ] At 6:19pm EDT yesterday, the datacenter complex in Virginia that is being used to host the World of Warcraft beta test was hit and damaged by a tornado. Because water was leaking into the building in which our servers were located, we shut down the servers as a precautionary measure and flew out a team of our network engineers to the location to survey the area and provide a preliminary assessment.

 

[Exo-Slayer]

Updated information tonight from Nebu.

Enough electrical power is now available at the Virginia datacenter for us to analyze the extent of any damage that might have occurred as a result of the direct tornado hit Friday night, but the hardware is not yet dry enough to be powered up. The good news is that there's a possibility that we will be able to begin carefully powering up and testing the hardware late this evening. Our on-site team of network engineers is working around the clock on the situation, and we will be posting another update here for everyone tomorrow afternoon. The pictures linked to below give a general impression of the damage sustained by the building housing our servers.

The US World of Warcraft beta test will remain offline for the remainder of Sunday and into Monday, and possibly longer. As soon as we have an estimate on when we will be able to restore service, we'll share that information here. Our thanks go out again for your continued patience and support.

 

[Bowser]

Patch ready for Download, Still Waiting on Servers

Taken directly from the WoW Beta Site:

The development team has been hard at work fixing bugs and adding new content to the game. We hope you enjoy many of the new features and changes we have added to the game such as raid groups, new dungeons, and the Deeprun Tram.
We posted this early to give you a chance to download the patch before the servers are ready to play again. We expect to give you an update on the servers later today.

Check out the patch by clicking here.

 

[Exo-Slayer]

Apparantly the 3 servers should be up shortly this post says.

Quote[/b] ]All 3 servers should be up very shortly. We will probably still have a period of downtime tommorow to replace some failed electrical equipment.