Looks like Mal'Ganis is getting new hardware!

subscience · 04/04/06, 4:44 PM

https://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...p=1#post7767399

First off, we’d like to thank everyone who helped us test our new hardware on the public test realms over the last month. The testing allowed us to move forward ahead of schedule with the improvements outlined at the beginning of March: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...=1&tmp=1#post45. We were able to bring the new World of Warcraft site live more than a week early, which in turn allowed us to open 12 new realms over the last two weeks.

The next step in our ongoing efforts to increase game performance is to migrate a set of realms to the new site this Wednesday, April 5, beginning at 12:01 AM PST. The migration could take up to 24 hours to complete, so we will be crediting players with active accounts who had characters on these realms as of 12:01 PM Monday, April 3. The realms that will be affected are listed below.

The goal with this realm migration is to further balance our player population between multiple World of Warcraft sites. Our estimates about the noticeable impact of this individual procedure are conservative, but it is nevertheless a necessary step that will then allow us to move forward with the subsequent portions of our overall plan.

Following the migration, we plan to next week offer character transfers from existing realms to fresh realms located at the new World of Warcraft site. These transfers will allow additional players on realms that had been experiencing intermittent performance issues to continue their character progress on the new hardware. This will in effect help us further disperse our population and continue improving performance on our most severely affected realms.

We’ll provide you with additional status updates as often as possible as we continue implementing the plan we announced this past January (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...ve&ThreadID=48).

Realms that will be down but not migrate:
Aggramar
Andorhal
Anetheron
Burning Blade
Burning Legion
Dentarg
Duskwood
Earthen Ring
Eonar
Eredar
Executus
Gilneas
Gorefiend
Haomarush
Kargath
Laughing Skull
Lightning's Blade
Llane
Malygos
Scilla
Shadow Moon
Steamwheedle Cartel
Thunderhorn
Thunderlord
Turalyon
Ysera
Ysondre
Zuluhed

Realms that will migrate:
Archimonde
Dalaran
Khadgar
Mal'Ganis

Yipee!

♦ Praetorian · 04/04/06, 4:48 PM

LOLOL!O!LOL FIRST!!!!!11!!

Mochiloc · 04/04/06, 4:49 PM

predicting fuckup in RaidID system during the server migration

subscience · 04/04/06, 4:50 PM

Hopefully we'll get those sweet, sweet early raid resets again.

♦ Praetorian · 04/04/06, 4:51 PM

Originally Posted by subscience,April 4th, 2006 @ 3:50PM

Hopefully we'll get those sweet, sweet early raid resets again.

They aren't so sweet when you want to go work on new bosses, sad to say. I've had my fill of Vekniss Guardians, thanks.

Graham · 04/04/06, 4:51 PM

Originally Posted by subscience,April 4th, 2006 @ 2:50PM

Hopefully we'll get those sweet, sweet early raid resets again.

:-/ I LIKE running AQ40 three times a week for fat loots every once in a while. Two weeks in a row might be a bit much, though.

subscience · 04/04/06, 4:54 PM

Originally Posted by Praetorian,April 4th, 2006 @ 2:51PM

They aren't so sweet when you want to go work on new bosses, sad to say. I've had my fill of Vekniss Guardians, thanks.

Yea, it probably sucked (hard) for guilds trying to progress, but damn, the loot was flowing like the Euphrates last week!

Edit- 5th Goomba. B)

chalon · 04/04/06, 4:59 PM

I'm certainly not complaining about 3 armaments this week!

♦ Praetorian · 04/04/06, 5:02 PM

Originally Posted by chalon,April 4th, 2006 @ 3:59PM

I'm certainly not complaining about 3 armaments this week!

This is true.

Though I do have a handful of people wanting to lynch me after a week of "Nah, why bother clearing the post-Emps trash when the instance is probably just going to reset tomorrow anyway"

Euronymous · 04/04/06, 6:06 PM

new hardware, but do we get new alliance!?

subscience · 04/04/06, 6:23 PM

Originally Posted by Euronymous,April 4th, 2006 @ 4:06PM

new hardware, but do we get new alliance!?

Am I not enough for you, baby? ;-*

Torael_7 · 04/04/06, 6:29 PM

Originally Posted by subscience,April 4th, 2006 @ 4:23PM

Originally Posted by Euronymous,April 4th, 2006 @ 4:06PM

new hardware, but do we get new alliance!?

Am I not enough for you, baby? ;-*

No, BG queue's are still long.

Anglakel · 04/04/06, 6:29 PM

I hear you may be getting new alliance guilds, oh wait you've had those popping up since release.

Raylen · 04/04/06, 6:45 PM

Ironforge will never be the same again after the new hardware goes in.

fishwaffle · 04/04/06, 7:18 PM

sweet, I can't wait.

subscience · 04/04/06, 9:23 PM

Looks like they rescheduled to Thursday, 12:01 AM.

Cardrian · 04/04/06, 9:43 PM

in before 'can't fix bad code with good hardware'

Slug · 04/05/06, 6:05 AM

Luckily for me, my hardware never goes out of date. Would suck to have to upgrade all the time.

Lurchington · 04/05/06, 10:35 AM

as some of you probably figured out, the migration was moved back to Thursday at 12:01 PST

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...p=1#post7767399

Kaubel · 04/05/06, 10:47 AM

A little less "figured out" and a little more "saw the post 3 above yours," but yeah.

Doomcrusher · 04/05/06, 11:10 AM

Elune's been shittier than normal the past week or so, so I hope more upgrades are not too far around the corner!

Anglakel · 04/05/06, 12:10 PM

Wait when did it change from "fagadin" to "paladin" under the avatar?

♦ Praetorian · 04/05/06, 12:12 PM

When you rerolled :lol:

Lurchington · 04/05/06, 12:36 PM

Originally Posted by Kaubel,April 5th, 2006 @ 8:47AM

A little less "figured out" and a little more "saw the post 3 above yours," but yeah.

my scan of the thread stopped when I noticed there were no links, and I didn't bother to go deeper.

such is life.

Anglakel · 04/05/06, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Praetorian,April 5th, 2006 @ 10:12AM

When you rerolled :lol:

was waiting for that :-)