World of Warcraft doesn't always work as the developers intended.
Recently, players in World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria Classic have been complaining about various technical issues and oddities. Memory leaks, glitches in character settings, missing items, and more have been observed.
Producer Tom Ellis explained what happened with WoW Classic:
«It was a really weird morning. If you logged into Classic MoP US in the morning, you may have noticed... some strange things. In short, during weekly maintenance, a new client and new server code were deployed to fix several bugs. QA testing and approval of all these changes took place several days before they went live, and then we prepared these changes for automated deployment.
Somewhere along the way, we managed to launch the new client but not all of the corresponding server code. This resulted in a "protocol violation" (imagine these two elements no longer speaking the same language, similar but different enough to cause... confusion), and the client was now reading useless data from the server. It was doing everything it could, but the result was memory leaks, very unusual mixing of different races and character customization options, and other strange glitches…».
This wasn't the end of the list of World of Warcraft problems. The producer also noted that for a while, the current WoW and Classic stopped interacting with Battle.net, which led to login blocks.
Tom also shared other information — he made a typo, which created additional difficulties:
«We still can't figure out what it was, but by the time people started to figure out the situation, [the games and service] were acting like best friends again, as if nothing had happened. Oh yeah, and character creation was blocked again in Classic US due to a typo. Oops, and also, since it was a cursed Tuesday, when I was shutting down US Classic for an emergency restart, I also managed to miss shutting down the AU realms due to a missing "." in the filter».
