It 's already been settled that the reported issues and glitches to the newly released expansion The Burning Crusade are not isolated cases. Almost all players in all servers have encountered them one way or another. Nope, we're not going to trash Blizzard or WoW, nothing like that. Just hear this one out first as this could be actually fun.

Probably the most problematic among these issues are server crashes. Forget gold farming hullabaloo, forget the sometimes insane players - we all can't play anyway if the server goes down. Now, the good people of WoW Insider mentioned that they've accepted the fact the it would take a while before things go back to normal. And so, they decided to have fun with these server crashes.

How the heck could they even have fun? Dude, chill out because they did have fun and the important thing is that they tried. This resulted to little side games like the following:

• Guess how long the server will stay up for! The winner gets their name announced when the server returns from its next crash.
• Race around Hellfire Citadel and see how far you can get before the server shuts down again.
• If all the mobs have disappeared, immediately go out and kill all the opposing faction you can find. It's pretty easy with no mob interference.
• If the mobs are still not there, see how much of the area you can explore before the server shuts down. Unfortunately, if the mobs suddenly repopulate, you can be in a whole lot of trouble. I got a 15-minute shutdown warning in Shattrath City and tried to see how far I could go before the crash. When the server came up again, I was in Shadowmoon Valley, surrounded by demons, with a flight path that led nowhere and a long, long walk back to a major city.