Game Time Compensation and New PvE Realm

admin November 12 2008 7:40 pm 2 Comments

Because of the recent mail/maintenance debacle Blizzard poster Tyren announced that a 1-day game time compensation will be given. Free is Good:

Tyren
As many players have noticed, there have been service issues which resulted in additional downtime over the last two days, and we would like to provide an update as to what the issues were as well as what we are doing to address them. During yesterday’s maintenance, an issue occurred which resulted in mail not displaying properly in players’ mailboxes. We have now identified the cause of this issue and are currently working on resolving it. Players should begin to receive the impacted mail over the next several days. Our customer service team will be unable to expedite the resolution for this issue. We appreciate your patience as the automatic fix is implemented.

In addition, an issue occurred last night where certain Arena and Honor items were displaying their costs incorrectly. The costs of the affected items have been corrected. Our in-game support department is currently working to resolve any problems that came with this issue, and we would like to ask that you please remain patient during this process.

We understand the frustrations and difficulties that you may have experienced surrounding the recent issues and extended maintenance. As such, we will be providing 1-day game time compensation for the recent events within the next two weeks. Please check the Account Management page after the two-week period to verify the game time has been successfully added to the account. As always, thank you for your patience regarding the recent issues, and we look forward to seeing you in Northrend!

Bornakk also announced earlier that a brand new (no transfer for 3 month) server will be going live on the 13th (no word yet on how DK’s will work on this new server):

Bornakk
We will be opening a brand new PvE realm, Grizzly Hills, in the morning (pacific time) of November 13 to coincide with the launch of Wrath of the Lich King! As a fresh realm it will not be open to character transfers for 3 months and in-game events like the opening of Ahn’Qiraj will be waiting for players to be completed. This realm will be part of the Retaliation battlegroup and set to the eastern timezone.

Enjoy your adventures in Azeroth!

First shots of Newborn Death Knights are coming in and I’d like to ask for your help! If you submit a picture or photo, please try to put all of the information on the picture before hand. It will save me a ton of time!

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2 Comments »

shynz said:

Wow one day compensation?! Thanks Blizz!

On a releated note: what a fuckin’ joke lol. I miss the old days of Blizz passing out free rest state instead of monetary compensation. Thanks again for the quarter Blizzard. You retards lmao.

# 12 November 2008 at 8:17 pm

Opt said:

I agree, a one day compensation for a game that most of the people pay for in over 3 month segments, is laughable. I understand trying to appease the masses, but give us something we want/need. I would love some bonus rested on my main, or a special “sorry we blew the pooch with the patching” pet perhaps.

Maybe a special tabard that says, “I survived the 3.0+ patching drama and all I got was this lousy tabard.”