(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); World of warcraft has launched a new expansion, Warlords of Draenor however has expanded into a range of issues. Leaving many players unable to experience to newest experience or given rather long list of problems before they can access it.

Reddit has now entered into the drama created around the launch of the expansion, with the /r/wow sub reddit turned into a private sub. Result of this action is 200,000+ readers of the sub-reddit are now longer able to view the sub. Action was done by the senior moderator nitesmoke therefore owner of the reddit. Questions are now being asked about the nature of ownership when it comes to reddit when a sub reddit becomes popular who owns it.

Action was taken after nitesmoke was having trouble logging into the world of warcraft servers, the title had been receiving extra traffic and even DDoS attack.

Move was claimed to be a protest against Blizzard for the failure to cope with the extra demand. Questions have been asked about the display which was only revealed over social media. Post on the sub reddit from one of the moderation team has been created now that the sub is back. You must login or register to view this content. aphoenix explains the reason behind the closing of the reddit here. Blizzards own community manager Jonathan Brown sent a message to nitesmoke over twitter claiming the action was a mistake and frustration is fair.

Service is still a problem for many users with Blizzard working around the clock to resolve the launch issues. Game launches in recent years have become much harder to predict given the rise in service based formats around certain titles with major launches having major downtime or connection problems. Appears nitesmoke has retired from leading the reddit, handed it over to another member of the community. Given how big the sub reddit is comes as no surprise that a massive amount of abuse was sent to nitesmoke and has retired from the position along with removed his account from the site.

Polygon has covered the story here You must login or register to view this content.

Reddit has always administered sections with a hands-off approach only stepping in when conduct verges on criminal. With it being next to impossible to get hold of senior members of the site requesting access or transfer of sections. Given the scale of Reddit that understandable but question about ownership is valid. Real question of ownership remains unanswered who owns the reddit the site or users who created it and run it. Very much mixed on the answer brings up some questions about free services.

As for the action don't agree it was the right choice or a wise choice a black out without sending your message out is just a lack of service over a protest. /r/wow drama may be nothing very much doubt this is going to be the last bit of drama for the site. Great shame here is that one user who was given the support of a community was driven off reddit as a result of following up on the protest idea.

So True, its not like WoW even need more dead content as it is though lol

Yea I was expecting a minor jump but that just crazy by all accounts the content is quite good.

Yeah at least on EU the big realms are fucked up.

4000 people queues (not anymore though), huge lag, can't access garrison or instances.

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