Ack! Patch Day 03-08-05 Love-Hate-Thank you!

[Psybertech]

Looking at all the notes on this patch I expect that Cosmos and the other Add-on Authors shall be busy this week making changes. Hope people send you lots of Pizza and Red Bull to be slid under the door of your programming cell. :P I do not envy you at all!

Patches for me is a love / hate kind of day. You have to balance the boosts with the nerfs, the new bells and whistles with the amount of time it will take for developers to re-invent the wheel yet again one more time.

Then there are those with little understanding as to the time involved rewriting the code to reflect the changes within the latest patch. Again, there is no envy here for the programmers.

What I do have is a lot of respect and admiration for the dedication of those who spend their free time at the expense of their own game time, real life, sometimes their job which actually pays their bills. I for one can not even begin to count the number of times I have called in sick to work because of a patch day. Thank God I have kids to blame it upon when I have to explain it to my Boss. Glad he does not play WOW!

Well, this all boils down to a large thank to the programmers out there that enhance our game and give up their lives to do so. My hat is off to you, /salute /bow /grovel, you have more than earned our respect and loyalty. Thank you for being there for us all.

Now I will sit back and watch how many people ask, "Is it done yet?" LOL

[Psybertech]

Then.. there are those days when you think it is patch day... and its not! LOL

[Tisser]

Maybe not today, but I've heard that the new patch with the following changes (check link below) is coming on the 18th, this month (March).

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/patchnotes/patch-07-03-2005.html

[Flisher]

definetly not on 18th... friday?

Patch day are tuesday. Blizzard won't push a big patch like this on a Friday and risk inerrupting the biggest days of the week...

[Vynn]

18th is a rumor for US servers. It was a date supposedly given by a blizzard rep for the EU people. *IF* we get the patch next week, it will probably be tuesday during the normal downtime (would make sense if they're running the "test" server through friday wouldn't it?)

[Tisser]

Dunno about the US servers, but EU servers have scheduled downtime every friday morning.

[ViViper1]

Dunno about the US servers, but EU servers have scheduled downtime every friday morning.

US Servers Downtime is usually tuesdays. But Server downtime on fridays are possible due to crappy servers. Deathwing along with 10 other servers are down for 24hrs. Prob won't be back up to 11est or somewhere along those lines.

Bliz replied to it supposedly coming out on the 18th and said that it's very highly doubtful since it hasn't been tested. Since then EU WoW site has taken their post off. Rumors has it (cant find the post), but an interview with Bliz conducted by Gamepro says it probably won't come out to June. It's all still pretty skechy, but nothing new since its blizzard.....

[Sparkz]

Since then EU WoW site has taken their post off.

Whatever you're smoking, stop - it ain't good for you.

Post is still on the frontpage of http:/www.wow-europe.com/

Patch Preview
Ryann, 08/03/2005
The next patch, which is currently scheduled to go live after our regular realm maintenance on the 18th of March, will feature many useful additions to World of Warcraft, for example

* Meeting Stones, which will make it easier for you to find a group for a dungeon
* Four additional action bars, giving you a total of 48 action buttons
* New flightpaths all across Kalimdor

You can read the full patchnotes here (http://www.wow-europe.com/en/patchnotes/patch-07-03-2005.html).

[ViViper1]

Since then EU WoW site has taken their post off.

Whatever you're smoking, stop - it ain't good for you.

Post is still on the frontpage of http:/www.wow-europe.com/

Patch Preview
Ryann, 08/03/2005
The next patch, which is currently scheduled to go live after our regular realm maintenance on the 18th of March, will feature many useful additions to World of Warcraft, for example

* Meeting Stones, which will make it easier for you to find a group for a dungeon
* Four additional action bars, giving you a total of 48 action buttons
* New flightpaths all across Kalimdor

You can read the full patchnotes here (http://www.wow-europe.com/en/patchnotes/patch-07-03-2005.html).


Yea I saw that the other day, and this is what I see now.....

http://img238.exs.cx/img238/4578/ss6fp.jpg

I did also double checked and did the whole history and cookie clearing thing and saw this.... For some reason I can't see it on there anymore as well as a few other of my friends.

[Sparkz]

You _do_ realize that you can scroll in a webbrowser?
The story is slightly down on the page as they have released other news in the meantime.

[ViViper1]

You _do_ realize that you can scroll in a webbrowser?
The story is slightly down on the page as they have released other news in the meantime.

Lol, you do realize that its sorted with the newest up top right? Come on I ain't that stupid....... Trust me I check my facts before I post.....

[ViViper1]

http://img206.exs.cx/img206/1989/sss4ls.jpg
For sparkz happiness sake =o)

[Skizzmm]

http://img206.exs.cx/img206/1989/sss4ls.jpg
For sparkz happiness sake =o)

Hmm... I still see it posted on the Euro Website... Perhaps your prescription needs to be checked ViViper1??

http://img112.exs.cx/img112/9751/patchday0ee.th.jpg (http://img112.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img112&image=patchday0ee.jpg)

[ViViper1]

http://img206.exs.cx/img206/1989/sss4ls.jpg
For sparkz happiness sake =o)

Hmm... I still see it posted on the Euro Website... Perhaps your prescription needs to be checked ViViper1??

http://img112.exs.cx/img112/9751/patchday0ee.th.jpg (http://img112.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img112&image=patchday0ee.jpg)

Could it be because it's cached? I use to work at my school department and our firewall as well as computers cached sites so they are faster access.

[Skizzmm]

Could it be because it's cached? I use to work at my school department and our firewall as well as computers cached sites so they are faster access.

Uhmm... you mean cached on your end?
I am the network admin where I work.. and I don't cache
at the firewall, nor do I let my personal PC cache for speed.
So I know it's not cached when I see it. Besides I can refresh
(which should get a brand new copy of the page) and I still see
the part I circled.

I see the picture you posted... and the article you stopped at
is just above the one about Patch Day.

Try scrolling down just a tad more to the date of the post about
the patch... the 8th.

[Gryphon]

I've never been to the EU site, so no cache, and I see patch news.

[ViViper1]

Could it be because it's cached? I use to work at my school department and our firewall as well as computers cached sites so they are faster access.

Uhmm... you mean cached on your end?
I am the network admin where I work.. and I don't cache
at the firewall, nor do I let my personal PC cache for speed.
So I know it's not cached when I see it. Besides I can refresh
(which should get a brand new copy of the page) and I still see
the part I circled.

I see the picture you posted... and the article you stopped at
is just above the one about Patch Day.

Try scrolling down just a tad more to the date of the post about
the patch... the 8th.

No I ment cached at your end since I saw you IE was BMHS, so I assumed that you were using it from school. Sorry if I was mistaken. At my old workplace we cached sites on our proxy server.

Well I did scroll down and its just more previous posts. I've asked some of my other friends and they get the same thing still =o/

http://img216.exs.cx/img216/6562/ssss1vm.jpg


I looked at your SS you seem to have most of the posts that have been for Feb and March, but mine is Nov 3rd. The post I stopped doesn't seem to be nowhere near your date =o/. Shrugs shoulders.......Scratches head lol.

[ViViper1]

Where you all from? lol

[Gryphon]

Feb and March, but mine is Nov 3rd

The top post (11/03/2005) is the 11th day of the 3rd month, not 11th month, 3rd day. Notice 2005...November 2005?

Scroll down to 08/03/2005, 8th day of the 3rd month.

[Sparkz]

Trust me I check my facts before I post.....
You obviously don't...

[ViViper1]

Feb and March, but mine is Nov 3rd

The top post (11/03/2005) is the 11th day of the 3rd month, not 11th month, 3rd day. Notice 2005...November 2005?

Scroll down to 08/03/2005, 8th day of the 3rd month.

Ahhhh yea, thats right Europe writes their dates differently than we do, lol sorry stupid mistake. Thanks for the clearup though. Sorry for the mishap.