Wednesday evening downtime
01/09/2005
Late Wednesday evening, one of the European data centers experienced technical problems resulting in several realms and the login server being unavailable. The problems were addressed together with our network provider, and the realms brought back online after a restart some hours later. Due to the resulting traffic on the European World of Warcraft websites these were also unavailable for some time, and we were unable to provide information through other channels than the World of Warcraft forums. We understand the concerns expressed by our players and have taken necessary measures to allow our infrastructure to handle more Web traffic in the future.

We will be adding full rest credit on all characters as compensation for the inconvenience. This will be added during the maintenance Wednesday September 7th, meaning all characters will have full rest bonus when they log in after the maintenance.

it should be transferable if ur lvl 60 tbh, my alts need that xp

Two Days Compensation
06/09/2005
Solving the network latency that some players are currently experiencing is our number 1 priority, and engineers at our European and US HQs are working diligently to identify the reason and eradicate the problem.

Despite the replacement of a part of our equipment last Friday evening a small group of players are still reporting latency but we have found no evidence that our hardware/software or our network is the reason for this. We suspect that it might be related to specific third party ISPs' network and this is currently being investigated with our partners.

Whatever the source of the problem, even if not related to our own operations, we would like you to enjoy your gameplay and therefore we have decided to extend 2 days compensation to all our customers in Europe. This will be implemented within a week from today.

Meanwhile our engineers will continue working on this high priority issue and we will update you as soon as we have more information.

While the issues of the last two weeks have now been addressed and had stemmed, on multiple occasions, from unrelated equipment and connectivity issues, this is no consolation for the disruptions that you have had to endure. We remain committed to providing the best playing conditions possible, and I want to apologize on behalf of everyone at Blizzard for being unable to do so during this period. Therefore, in addition to the 2 days compensation and rest time already credited, I would like to extend this by an additional 3 day credit to all player accounts in Europe. These will be credited during next week.