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*Article originally posted on August 27, 2007 at 02:56PM.
Some bit of bad news for players eager to resume their romp on World of Warcraft for more quality online gaming: a recently-discovered exploit that has the ability to crash servers, including the main worlds and all the instances associated with them, is currently being used to wreak havoc all over Azeroth.
We're not too sure how the exploit itself was unearthed, or how one goes about performing it - but suffice to say, this could be the first time that Blizzard's World of Warcraft has ever experienced anything like this. The Tichondrius server alone seems to have been made to crash over ten times after the discovery had been made - and it's safe to say that the players aren't feeling too happy about their game sessions being rudely interrupted by a server crash.
In what seems like an effort to keep the how-to of the exploit spilled out in the open to do more damage, the official World of Warcraft forums appear to be controlling the comments in this issue's thread. They have, however, already posted a response to the overwhelming number of server crashes, by way of Blizzard poster Eyonix. The official statement, verbatim:
We're aware of stability issues affecting select realms and are investigating. We'll provide an update on the situation as soon as additional information becomes available.
We certainly hope that Blizzard takes care of this issue as soon as possible, as it seems that the exploit itself has been spread to EU servers as well. We'll be sure to look into this further to bring you more updates. In the meantime, sit tight... er... click on the TV.
Update: Blizzard CM Palantia has just posted an announcement in the WoW Forums:
Rolling Restarts - All Realms - 8/27/07
All realms will being undergoing rolling restarts to resolve an issue that resulted in realms going down. These restarts will begin at 5am. Each realm's downtime is expected to be minimal.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this matter.
The rolling restarts today for all the realms may just be part of WoW's regular maintenance, or it may very well be Blizzard's response to the server-crashing exploit we've reported.
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