Latest Beta build crashing your client?

NOTICE:  This advice is for the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Beta client ONLY.  This is NOT for the Live client.

Lots of beta players are reporting crashes with their beta clients after the recent build.  I also had this issue.

Thankfully there is a solution that is working for most players.

Instructions

1.  Make sure the beta client is completely closed.

2.  Delete the Cache folder from the main beta folder



3.  Find the Data folder, and open it



4.  Remove the Cache folder from within the Data folder



This should solve your crashing issues.

Happy playing!

Thinking of trying to set up a private WoW Server?

Then think again, it could cost you $88 million dollars (US)

As in this case reported by geek.com reports:

Blizzard have yet again managed to win a lawsuit against someone trying to circumvent security, copyright, and make a profit from World of Warcraft.

This time its a company called Scapegaming, which was running private servers for WoW. Blizzard argued that in so doing Scapegaming had committed copyright infringement, circumvented copyright protection, and formed unfair competition for the game.

Winning the case was made easy by the fact that Alyson Reeves, owner of Scapegaming, didn’t even bother turning up for the hearing. So by default Blizzard won. What Reeves may not have been expecting is the huge amount of money now owed to Blizzard. In total it’s $88 million broken down as follows:

•$85.4 million in statutory damages
•$3 million in disgorged profits
•$64,000 in attorney’s fees
The payout was calculated based on a range of evidence. The profits came from evidence of over $3 million in Reeves’ PayPal account. The $85.4 million was based on there being a community on Scapegaming of some 427,000 which was then multiplied by $200 to represent each act of circumvention.

Tracking down and prosecuting Revees was helped by the fact that Scapegaming was being operated from inside the U.S. and more specifically out of Georgia.

The moral, just do not even think about it.


Source:http://www.geek.com/articles/games/blizzard-wins-88-million-from-scapegaming-over-illegal-wow-servers-20100817/

Password Security Information

This is something we always urge to players.  Here it is from a Blue, which might make more people listen!

Realm Status Alert

UPDATE:  The issues with the Misery Battlegroup appear to have been resolved.  Happy playing!

Certain realms in the Misery Battlegroup are currently offline.  Reasons are currently unknown but are being looked in to.

Information will be posted on the official forums in http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=14340384657&sid=1  as well as here.

Extended Maintenance - 04/08/2010

There will be extended maintenance on the realms listed below on Wednesday, August 4th, beginning at 00:01 CEST. The maintenance is scheduled for 24 hours as we prepare for the upcoming expansion. These realms will be playable again at approximately 23:59 on Wednesday, August 4th.

Vek'nilash
Aerie Peak
Auchindoun
Boulderfist
Chamber of Aspects
Eonar
Frostmane
Ghostlands
Grim Batol
Hellfire
Jaedenar
Karazhan
Kazzak
Kilrogg
Nagrand
Outland
Ravenholdt
Saurfang
Shattered Halls
Sporeggar
Tarren Mill
The Sha'tar
Wildhammer