Blizzard gives free World of Warcraft time to cover up for launch troubles

Time to make up for your disaster, eh Blizzard?

After the recent launch of the much aniticipated expansion pack for World of Warcraft, there have been lots of issues regarding the online Warlords of Draenor due to millions of players trying to connect to servers at once. Because of the countless complaining of players worldwide of their server crashing and hourlong waits to connect to servers, ‘good guy’ Blizzard has planned to cover up for the inconveniences caused by giving away five extra days subscription time to everyone who had an active subscription as of Friday, November 14th.

Servers crashed and faced connection issues with this many players worldwide tried to connect at once

Some players complained of facing upto 10 hours of queue time!

J. Allen Brack, executive producer of the game has also posted an apology on the official warcraft forums and also mentioned that the peeps at Blizzard will be working on new precautions and measures to prevent similar blunders in the future. These include great reduction in queue time for online players and double the realm capacities of the game.

Here’s an excerpt:

….I [Netheara] hope you'll accept my apology and keep your faith in us. The support voiced by many of you as we worked through the challenges was immensely appreciated. We're extremely grateful to be part of such a passionate community. We love World of Warcraft, and we're very proud of this expansion, so stumbling out of the gates like this was very disappointing for all of us....

You can read the full post by Netheara here. Apology accepted, Blizzard!

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