World of Warcraft Down - Hacked?

AuToFiRE - 479 days 12 hours ago

careful.. you could have 8.5 million angry nerds at your door in the near future

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LossTheEarthbreaker - 479 days 12 hours ago

I should've added something, but instead some angry wow nerds (yes, I am a nerd, too, and formerly was a "wow nerd") did a quick disagree because I took pleasure in their inability to waste more of their lives.

I would have been pissed as hell if I still played.

Trust me, I wasted 150 real life days in-game.

You could chalk up maybe 24 hours of that to afk time. No one should ever play a game that much.

You start to lose your grip on reality. There's no end in WoW, either. You just try to get as much crap as possible to become as overpowered as possible and it takes a long goddamn time with scheduled raids throughout the week and at least 30 other people who want to do the same thing.

I wish that WoW would have been hacked to death when I was playing. It's a godsend when the game is down and you have no other option but to do something else.

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Montrealien - 479 days 11 hours ago

It`s also a god send to have self control. A lot of mature well to do people can deal with a game like wow and never let it take over their life, some don`t. Like jelly beans.

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Tomdc - 479 days 9 hours ago

i got it for a month cos my friend persuaded me but i gave up after 2 weeks cos i got bored... didnt like it, its very repetative plus i couldn't really take part in err.. instances they are called i think cos i couldn't find time to stay on for more than 2 hours straight.

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TheIneffableBob - 135 days 23 hours ago

C o c k s.

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Montrealien - 479 days 15 hours ago

said the guy in the comments section of a videogame site on the internet. In the 90`s you would be uber nerd! now it`s just cool right? :p

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okcomputer - 479 days 12 hours ago

Finally someone else sees the irony in a comment like this. Every time some poster on a video game website looks down their nose at other gamers and calls them nerds you have to laugh.

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Mao - 479 days 11 hours ago

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! SKIN CANCER!!!! I NEED BETTER UV ARMOR!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!

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Mao - 479 days 11 hours ago

Has basically dropped out of High School, gained 75 pounds and lost a good majority of his friends and family relationships all because of Warcraft. It's very sad...

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Montrealien - 479 days 11 hours ago

blame the parents, not the game. I`m guessing you are on the side of Jack tompson also right? games cause kids to shoot other kids right?

@Mao

I am not ripping into no one, just stating my opinion, like you guys. I take back my JT comment, but your friend that dropped out of high school for a game clearly has other issues.

everything in life should be taken in moderation, even wow, lol

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Mao - 479 days 10 hours ago

I don't believe games cause the physical actions that JT seems to throw out there like murder, robbery and other crimes. Those are triggered events that have to do with many cumulated thought-processess and the heat of the moment.

But when it comes to being lazy, a game can and theoritically should be thought to do the same things excessive TV, movies and other forms of entertainment can do to someone. Even gambling, it's like an addiction.

That's where anti-gaming groups get it all wrong. They don't focus on the obvious but rather over-dramatize the effects gaming has on people. Gaming is just another form of entertainment. I think it's pretty fair (not in any way related to JT and his sensationalism) to claim that gaming addiction cause people to get fat and block out the rest of the world. WoW is the best example.

EDIT: And why so offended? I've noticed through-out this news post you've been ripping on people for being anti-WoW. Calm down. You don't have to go proclaiming I'm a JT supporter cause I've had a real life instance witnessing someone throw away his reality for WoW. I'm a gamer, not some type of hidden anti-gaming spy on n4g man. Come on, lol.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 479 days 2 hours ago

I play Second Life. It's so freakin' LAGgy though!

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Chexd - 479 days 13 hours ago

"All the comments I see here are from people that don`t play and love stereotypes...sad".

Couldn't agree more!

The mainstream media stereotypes us evil gamers enough, do we need more?

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LossTheEarthbreaker - 479 days 12 hours ago

I played WoW for 2 years.

I wish this crap happened when I was playing to wake my damn ass up.

I got 600 dollars for my character, sure, but I lost ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FULL DAYS OF MY LIFE. ALL WAKING HOURS.

That's entirely, entirely too much time. I eventually got bored with the game because I had done just about everything, which was the only thing that disinterested me. I would have stopped playing after my first big raid boss battle if I had known better.

So, your comment is actually not true. I did play WoW and I'd find it extremely helpful to PC gaming if the game were to just die today.

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Montrealien - 479 days 11 hours ago

sorry, earthbender, a lot of people can deal with it, you could not. We are all snow flakes, get it?

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okcomputer - 479 days 10 hours ago

Whats so addictive about wow? I've never played it. Is it the community, the game itself, or what?

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Montrealien - 479 days 12 hours ago

*comes out into the sunlite*

Is this real?

*touches skin*

I can feel?

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Cheeseknight28 - 479 days 13 hours ago

WoW goes "down" every week for server maintenance.

Moron.

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doshey - 479 days 13 hours ago

excuse me for not knowing that dont have to be a rude about it damn its not like im a damn wow addict

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Cdaja - 479 days 13 hours ago

No offense but have you never played a game with an online part? Most of the time it had to go offline for maintence once and a while and WoW is a hell of a lot bigger then say CoD4 servers so it naturally has to go down a lot. If you wanna make negitive comments makes sure you know what the hell you're talking bout please.

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doshey - 479 days 12 hours ago

i have played wow the trial version but i never really liked it so i didnt sign up for it

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Montrealien - 479 days 12 hours ago

doshey said..

(mass suicides cuz WOW was down haha)

who exactly was Rude?

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LossTheEarthbreaker - 479 days 12 hours ago

This, however, was not scheduled weekly server maintenance.

So, lay off the guy. He was cracking a joke and you bastards who actually took offense should probably stop playing the game if you're gonna take a comment like that seriously.

Or, maybe, as I have, you've discovered that staying inside all day and night playing WoW is extremely depressing and that someone somewhere might actually commit suicide when unable to play the game and realizing that he had nothing else to do because he had cut off contact with all other human life.

Just because other humans are playing, doesn't make any one of you happier.

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doshey - 479 days 11 hours ago

i was cracking a joke and then dude took it serious and then called me a moron so thats why i said the rude part

and ^^^^^
thanks for the support bubble 4 u

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Cheeseknight28 - 479 days 9 hours ago

Doshey... Loss...

I see you fail to recognize sarcasm. Obviously he wouldn't know about the maintenance if he'd never played the game. He was being witty and saying that people would die due to the servers being down, so I in turn, was being witty and gave him that comeback. I apologize that that you took offense to what is likely the least insulting thing you can find on an internet forum.

"Or, maybe, as I have, you've discovered that staying inside all day and night playing WoW...."

I think I turned on WoW once this week just to say hi to my real life friends, who I don't contact much outside of the game since we don't go to the same school anymore. I don't raid, I don't do arena, in fact, I don't even have a guild. Don't make assumptions... just because I happen to know something that everyone who has played WoW at some point in their life would know, doesn't mean I'm an addict to the game.

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Panthers - 479 days 22 hours ago

If they dont kill themselves first

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Chexd - 479 days 21 hours ago

Thanks for the kind words ;)

*Goes back to shaking in a dark corner*

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Montrealien - 479 days 14 hours ago

I`m at work so I can`t, but I mean, this has happened before. Why it is news is beyong me.

edit: everything seems to be working fine, all realms are up. Things like this happen in MMO`s, this is not news. And yesterday was server maintance.

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Chexd - 479 days 13 hours ago

As mentioned in the article this was nothing to do with the scheduled maintinence. The realms are all working now although some are still having minor issues.

The articles was written yesterday so was correct at the time of publication.

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Montrealien - 479 days 13 hours ago

all I`m saying is that it has happened before, server crashes happen, nothing new.

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Chexd - 479 days 10 hours ago

Fair enough :)

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