sad and thinking about quitingFollow

hey yall! this is ridiculous! i cant log on, and it says "cannot validate game version" forgive me if this problem is already had ways of fixin, but a police officer and work 12 hours a day... so i dont get to see the site much. ive tried the whole create a new user account on your pc thing.. it worked, one time. after that first log in, it said cant validate again, on the new account. ive done it a few times and still cannot get any response. can anyone please help me out with ideas or the fix? or is blizzard gonna lose another good guy to final fantasy 11 ( which in 2 years never locked me out). any response is greatly appreciated =^.^=

i had a chuckle. Used to get so furious at how scheduled maintenance was synonymous with "You won't be playing for the 6 hour maintenance, and the 12 hour hot fix after".

... i take it there isnt a fix for the glitch in why i cant log in....? i have to wait until the phone lines arent busy and hope to get thru? dang, that sucks, still, if anyone has any ideas on something that works, id greatly appreciate it.

Unfortunately right now Blizzard is really busy. Imagine say, 5% were affected by some sort of problem (I think i am being VERY conservative here.) that still is 350,000 people calling in or bombarding the site with questions.

If you could maybe give a much deeper report of what you did, when you got this messege, how far into the instalation process. Basically go step by step of everything you have done. unfortunately, I, nor I doubt anyone else can really offer much help until you give us more details.

Yeah, specially since besides back when FFXI was being attacked by DDOS maints were never extended for more then 2-4 hours, usually only 1 and sometimes even completed early. Not to mention that when they did an update it didn't fuck everything up.

That and the thing about servers being stable after a patch 95% of the time.

Wow is better then FFXI in some departments, but maint ain't one of them.

I like how half of that is wrong

While some of what you said is right; I went from rolanberry > jeuno multiple times after the expansion came out and never had a problem. Also the new city was not unstable, i'll say that WoW is probably more stable but the server was deffinantly able to handle it. And their solution? What are you talking about? The only max persons cap is that only during besieged, Al zahbi will only allow up to 700 people. Not to mention that 700 people, besieged monsters, and the city graphics contain a ******** more memory(not sure if that's the right word) and polygons than WoWs main citys alone. (I do give them major props for doing an amazing job at linking most of the areas together tho.)

I personally never had problems with FFXI, but I have had problems with WoW. I think this is mainly because WoW focuses more on RAM and FFXI focuses more on CPU. I also personally believe that these 'server problems' you describe in ffxi are more likely problems with the computer itself and not the server. I can't comment fully on the zoning thing, because I don't recall it that much. I only know it didn't effect a lot of people.

And yes, what's happening in WoW is much worse then any problems i've ever had in ffxi besides the DDOS stuff. (Logs being screwed with constantly, BG servers going down constantly[although this seems to have gotten much better now], me getting alliance defense messages while on the horde, item text ***** ups[this one isn't that big a deal], etc.) About the maint too, both wow and ffxi seem to do good with downloading the patch, but blizzards servers were just too unstable after the maint. Maybe it was just a one-time deal and i'm just jumping the gun, and i'm hoping I am.

Now this is a serious question that I don't know anything about: Is it just my current server that disconnects me if i'm afk for over 15 minutes, or does every server do this?

This was a large patch that essentially rewrote the foundation of WoW in some places. Of course with such a shift there are bound to be problems. My Guild even decided to delay all raids and events one week because of the patch (people having lag problems, mass disconnects, addon failure), which we have never done.



This is a feature in the game. Keeps dead bodies from filling up the cities and zones.

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