From CNET: World of Warcraft's fifth expansion -- Warlords of Draenor -- has proved massively popular with players, so much so that Blizzard's servers have been struggling under the strain. And, to cap it all off is news that should surprise precisely no one: the game's North American servers have been hit with a distributed denial of service attack, Blizzard has confirmed.
"Europe was our first region to launch, and we encountered a few issues due to the sheer number of players attempting to enter Draenor from a single location. We worked to add multiple new ways to access Draenor, and this helped ease some of the initial rush into the new expansion as players were able to access it from their capital cities, as well as from the shrines in Pandaria," Blizzard community manager Bashiok said on the WoW forum.
"While that solution helped a ton for our North American launch, we ran into a few other issues, including a distributed denial of service attack, that resulted in increased latency."
In order to cope with server load, Blizzard lowered the maximum number of players allowed on each server, which resulted in increased wait times to enter the game. Players were queuing for hours, a situation that caused WoW subreddit moderator nitesmoke to shut the subreddit down in protest and a rash of angry one-star reviews of the expansion on Amazon.
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