So... um... We Broke WoW...
....Temporarily.
Link to post that started it off
In a nutshell, there was this boy named Ezra Chatterton, who, for his Make-A-Wish foundation wish, got to go to Blizzard's offices, hang out with the developers, design a quest, etc. He passed away on October 20th. Ezra's character, Ephoenix was a hunter, and he was a fan of a blogger/podcaster who goes by the name of BRK - Big Red Kitty. In his honor, today, BRK made the above post on wowinsider.com, urging that we do a running of the bulls in his honor, where everyone who read it, would make a level 1 tauren, and join in a raid on Stormwind on the Argent Dawn server.
End result
We killed the server. Not just Argent Dawn apparently, but the Authentication servers went down, and all the other servers had lag issues. I never even got on to Argent Dawn, because i was waiting in the 900+ queue. Apparently they had 897 level one taurens in their Baby Tauren Army plus 55 level 70s to make the raid viable. The alliance had like 300+ people waiting in Stormwind.
Apparently GMs were whispering people to call it off while the army was moving towards Ratchet.
The server wobbled, and collapsed.
So umm... yeah. Apparently there's a limit to the size of a gathering you can have in one location in WoW.
If anyone wants to donate money towards the Ezra Chatterton foundation, Here's a link
Link to post that started it off
In a nutshell, there was this boy named Ezra Chatterton, who, for his Make-A-Wish foundation wish, got to go to Blizzard's offices, hang out with the developers, design a quest, etc. He passed away on October 20th. Ezra's character, Ephoenix was a hunter, and he was a fan of a blogger/podcaster who goes by the name of BRK - Big Red Kitty. In his honor, today, BRK made the above post on wowinsider.com, urging that we do a running of the bulls in his honor, where everyone who read it, would make a level 1 tauren, and join in a raid on Stormwind on the Argent Dawn server.
End result
We killed the server. Not just Argent Dawn apparently, but the Authentication servers went down, and all the other servers had lag issues. I never even got on to Argent Dawn, because i was waiting in the 900+ queue. Apparently they had 897 level one taurens in their Baby Tauren Army plus 55 level 70s to make the raid viable. The alliance had like 300+ people waiting in Stormwind.
Apparently GMs were whispering people to call it off while the army was moving towards Ratchet.
The server wobbled, and collapsed.
So umm... yeah. Apparently there's a limit to the size of a gathering you can have in one location in WoW.
If anyone wants to donate money towards the Ezra Chatterton foundation, Here's a link