This news just in fresh off the presses...make sure you have alts you can play tomorrow (Wednesday). Boo to that, but yay for them doing something!

Original thread: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=7767399&tmp=1#post7767399

Repost for the lazy:
First off, we’d like to thank everyone who helped us test our new hardware on the public test realms over the last month. The testing allowed us to move forward ahead of schedule with the improvements outlined at the beginning of March: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=blizzard-archive&t=45&p=1&tmp=1#post45. We were able to bring the new World of Warcraft site live more than a week early, which in turn allowed us to open 12 new realms over the last two weeks.

The next step in our ongoing efforts to increase game performance is to migrate a set of realms to the new site this Wednesday, April 5, beginning at 12:01 AM PST. The migration could take up to 24 hours to complete, so we will be crediting players with active accounts who had characters on these realms as of 12:01 PM Monday, April 3. The realms that will be affected are listed below.

The goal with this realm migration is to further balance our player population between multiple World of Warcraft sites. Our estimates about the noticeable impact of this individual procedure are conservative, but it is nevertheless a necessary step that will then allow us to move forward with the subsequent portions of our overall plan.

Following the migration, we plan to next week offer character transfers from existing realms to fresh realms located at the new World of Warcraft site. These transfers will allow additional players on realms that had been experiencing intermittent performance issues to continue their character progress on the new hardware. This will in effect help us further disperse our population and continue improving performance on our most severely affected realms.

We’ll provide you with additional status updates as often as possible as we continue implementing the plan we announced this past January (http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?ForumName=blizzard-archive&ThreadID=48).

Realms that will be down but not migrate:
Aggramar
Andorhal
Anetheron
Burning Blade
Burning Legion
Dentarg
Duskwood
Earthen Ring
Eonar
Eredar
Executus
Gilneas
Gorefiend
Haomarush
Kargath
Laughing Skull
Lightning's Blade
Llane
Malygos
Scilla
Shadow Moon
Steamwheedle Cartel
Thunderhorn
Thunderlord
Turalyon
Ysera
Ysondre
Zuluhed

Realms that will migrate:
Archimonde
Dalaran
Khadgar
Mal'Ganis

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...an end to Mal'Anus! :mango:

So we will still be on a NEW server named Mal'ganis? YAY... I hope that is true.. That will ROCK!!!

Yep...sounds like we ARE getting some of the fabled new hardware at the new site to run on. :D Yaaaaaaaaaay!

Man.. that will be awesome, but I bet we get one that the UPS man dropped on the ground by accident.

Eh, better than the one we currently have, which the UPS man dropped, punted down the street, backed his truck over and then defecated all over before Blizz put it straight in the rack. :p

I laugh cause at one of my old clients the UPS man dropped the server to the ground as he was walking it in the door and his face dropped and his eyes got uber huge like "OH FUCK!!!"

We opened the box and the rack rails were bent all to hell so we bent them back as best as we could and I installed the server anyway. Client never new the difference, but any time a tech other than me went out there I would be like "Dont slide the server on the bottom out cause its fucked hard."

hotT!

Wow! cool but I wish they weren't taking out three of the servers that I have toons on - oh well, it will be worth it - lets see, do I play my 14 mage on RPPVP Emerald Dream or watch a movie.... MOVIE NIGHT!

This must be another Aprils Fools joke Silver....this cant be happening!

Well in order to "pay" for this upgrade the Mal'Ganis community will receive and automatic timer of 30mins for character load and all character levels will be cut in half.

In an unprecedented move, Blizzard actually tested something before attempting to do it in production. They found a problem with the process and are pushing the migration back 24 hours. So Wednesday = OK...Thursday = down.

If they delay one day then theyll delay 2 days, then three days, and so on and so forth. by the time the migration takes place, some newer, bigger, better game will be out. theyre just trying to keep your hopes up so you wont cancel your subscription.

The probably looked at how long their pornos would take to download over those lines and discovered that those wouldn't be done until wednesday. If they tried to move the realm data, it'd delay their porn, so they instead delay the migration.

Ooh! Chronicles of Narnia comes out on DVD tomorrow w00t! Move EE night

Heard that movie sucked it hard.

<3 Niz, perfect first post to read in the morning!

Thank you, thank you.

If you think that was a good movie, just wait till Snakes on A Plane comes out in Oct.

If you think that was a good movie, just wait till Snakes on A Plane comes out in Oct.

I think that is the greatest title of a movie ever....

I think that is the greatest title of a movie ever....

Nope... that award goes to "Debbie Does Dallas"...

You obviously have never seen the trailer for Snakes on A Plane.

You obviously never saw Debbie Does Dallas.

You obviously never saw Debbie Does Dallas.
You are obviously wrong.

Listen.. the best movie title is definately "Lesbian Bitches 2" or "CocoMuffs" both of which are real movies.

I don't know that Slither movie looks pretty awesome :lol:

Come on! Any movie that has snakes or a plane is already awesome but when you put the two together....that is movie magic!