{"id":812,"date":"2007-02-22T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/22\/the-day-the-wow-died\/"},"modified":"2007-02-22T15:28:54","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T19:28:54","slug":"the-day-the-wow-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/22\/the-day-the-wow-died\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day the WoW Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lot of time to write posts today because I am part of the great World of Warcraft Blackout of \u201907.  Those of us in the Southwestern part of the United States that use Cox Internet services (and brands that use Cox like SuddenLink) haven\u2019t been able to connect to our main character servers for over 24 hours now.  That\u2019s what is odd \u2013 the main character server part.  I can log into every other WoW server, just not the one with my main characters.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard\u2019s game developing skills are as good as their customer service is bad.  Roughly 1,000 posts later (<a href=\"http:\/\/forums.worldofwarcraft.com\/thread.html?topicId=77594463&sid=1\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/forums.worldofwarcraft.com\/thread.html?topicId=77594463&amp;sid=1', 'I am not making this up');\">I am not making this up<\/a>) Blizzard officially acknowledged on the log-in page that Cox users in the Southwest are having problems logging in.  No informative posts in their technical support forum.  No attempts to calm the masses.  Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily my office internet connection isn\u2019t through Cox so I was able to get a quick fix earlier today.  Hopefully this issue will be resolved before the shakes come back.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a lot of time to write posts today because I am part of the great World of Warcraft Blackout of \u201907. Those of us in the Southwestern part of the United States that use Cox Internet services (and brands that use Cox like SuddenLink) haven\u2019t been able to connect to our main character &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/02\/22\/the-day-the-wow-died\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Day the WoW Died<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}