Had this problem last night briefly as well (anetheron) - I just made a toon on an oceanic server and had some fun. They'll be back up soon enough if not check the wow website
Same here, log in, get to the retriveing characters list, takes 10 minutes to get them... choose a toon, maybe I get kicked then, maybe I actually get into the game... then three minutes into the game I get kicked again.
I'd say this is to stop people flooding to other servers while theirs are down. All 3 servers I'm on are offline at the moment [SWC, Defias Brotherhood and Scarshield Legion] or won't let me log in.
Just hang on, it's better than everything going funky randomly. :)
Ha! Im still having the valadate error pop up on my screen and am installing the game for the 3rd time...twice last night and one last time now. I'd be happy just not getting that error >.>
After logging in, its not even trying to attempt to load my character list but instead going to a whole new setup again to create a new character and new realm selection.
This crap aint on... why cant blizzard at least keep the forums up to update us. After all WE pay their wages!!!
Damn... my server (Agamaggan EU) is pretty dead :D it isnt event listed in realms list :D i think that blizzard must give all players a bonus day of playing, because all day all servers are down :D i think blizzard wanted to do MUCH more than they can :) so they just extends servers downtimes to complete that damn update ! I hope tomorrow my server will be working... if not i'll just curse blizzard for all weekend :D
Blizzard has the forums down because everyone rushed there and the server curled up into a ball, started crying and asked Blizzard for a pay rise. Blizzard then decided that it would be much better to hire a few slaves and genetically engineer them so that they're small enough to run the server.
The downtime is just part of the plan Blizzard has to create real life server gnomes.
Some European realms are down because of extended maintaince, according to the message it wil be up by 19:00 server time when no other things occure. Be patient, you can login soon.
They can't keep the forums uptodate if half a miljion players try to log in at once... ;-)