Definately not excusing Blizzard for skipping Terenas, but I wonder if the technical problems are different?
Stormrage's hardware, from a pure stability perspective, really is good. I mean, we were one of the biggest servers since day 1 (thanks to the "Low Population" bug). We got the very first round hardware upgrades because of that. The problem seemed to be that the sheer amount of people in cycle-hungry atmospheres (read: raids) overwhelmed it. Ironically, it kind of served to somewhat undo itself as the 4 highest end Horde guilds and at least one Alliance guild left for server transfers and rerolls. But that still didn't solve everything (and did a damn good job of making Blizzard an extra buck before they decided to look at us). This is feeding Stormrage as a dying atmosphere -> you've got the alliance too entrenched to leave, and the horde side is completely gutted, as if the imbalance beforehand wasn't big enough. Blizzard doing something might be more than just technical - they're trying to save a dying community.
Terenas, on the other hand, sounds like it's more than just concurrent users causing issues. A simple upgrade won't fix that unless the underlying issue is bad hardware:(
Stormrage's hardware, from a pure stability perspective, really is good. I mean, we were one of the biggest servers since day 1 (thanks to the "Low Population" bug). We got the very first round hardware upgrades because of that. The problem seemed to be that the sheer amount of people in cycle-hungry atmospheres (read: raids) overwhelmed it. Ironically, it kind of served to somewhat undo itself as the 4 highest end Horde guilds and at least one Alliance guild left for server transfers and rerolls. But that still didn't solve everything (and did a damn good job of making Blizzard an extra buck before they decided to look at us). This is feeding Stormrage as a dying atmosphere -> you've got the alliance too entrenched to leave, and the horde side is completely gutted, as if the imbalance beforehand wasn't big enough. Blizzard doing something might be more than just technical - they're trying to save a dying community.
Terenas, on the other hand, sounds like it's more than just concurrent users causing issues. A simple upgrade won't fix that unless the underlying issue is bad hardware:(
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