WoTC Website Down?

Shroomy · Nov 3, 2008

Did WoTC announce any kind of planned maintenance scheduled for today? I've tried to get their website all day and only get a "Service Unavailable" message. I hope whatever they are doing is fixed by 12AM EDT, I want my Dragon update.

justanobody · Nov 3, 2008

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd returns this:

Microsoft VBScript compilation error '800a03e9'

Out of memory

/default.asp, line 0

Seems like a server crash or just dead memory.

Shroomy · Nov 3, 2008

It looks like they are slowly getting the website back up, since I'm no longer getting the "Serivce Unavailable" message when I try to access the site and the main WotC page is now available. Hopefully they get everything up and running soon. There's a lot of stuff I want to read tonight.

darjr · Nov 3, 2008

Still getting the error here. I'd hate to be the admin's right about now.

Shroomy · Nov 3, 2008

darjr said:
Still getting the error here. I'd hate to be the admin's right about now.

Me too. However, it looks like something is going on. The MtG portion of the website is now operational.

davethegame · Nov 3, 2008

It was a bit annoying for me today. I just bought my year long subscription to D&D Insider on Friday, and then tried to use the Compendium during an adventure I was playing in today, only to find it down the entire time. Bleh.

JoeGKushner · Nov 3, 2008

I had a similiar problem the other day.

If they go down for any length of time, I wonder what their reply to angry $$ paying subscribers will be.

thecasualoblivion · Nov 3, 2008

At midnight eastern time, the new dragon articles and draconomicon/martial power excerpts go up, and everybody goes to WotC en masse and crashes the servers.

I got to see the excerpts, and was able to read the first part of Ampersand--Bard Levels 1-10 baby!!! but its not letting me logon to insider.

I want to see the frickin bard!!!! Not to mention need me some minotaur!!!