TalonBot
05-21-2009, 02:41 PM
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.wow.com/media/2009/05/launcheralert.jpgJust a quick tip for those of who may be stranded at work and thinking about World of Warcraft (which, during the day, is probably all of you?) I've never seen a link to this page (though we've snuck it in some maintenance posts (http://www.wow.com/2009/04/13/extended-maintenance-for-tuesday-march-14th/) before), but fortunately the good folks at the WoW LJ community (http://community.livejournal.com/worldofwarcraft/7850382.html) have spotlighted it: Blizzard's welcome screen notice is just a text page online, and it's publicly available (http://launcher.worldofwarcraft.com/alert). So even if you can't load up the WoW client, you can still keep track of realm downtime on maintenance days, or just keep an eye on what Blizzard is posting about lately.
It's a little thing (and truthfully, there's probably not much there that you really need to know anyway -- if you're away from a WoW client, obviously you can't log in even if your realm is back up). But you never know, someday when you're thinking about World of Warcraft, far afield of your installation, and really need to know what Blizzard has to tell you, it could come in handy. Definitely earned a place in my bookmarks, just in case.
And having it in quick and easy online text form means we can script it to go elsewhere, right? Anyone want to try hooking a Twitter account (http://twitter.com/) up to this thing?Filed under: Tips (http://www.wow.com/category/tips/), Realm Status (http://www.wow.com/category/realm-status/), Odds and ends (http://www.wow.com/category/odds-and-ends/), Blizzard (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzard/)
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It's a little thing (and truthfully, there's probably not much there that you really need to know anyway -- if you're away from a WoW client, obviously you can't log in even if your realm is back up). But you never know, someday when you're thinking about World of Warcraft, far afield of your installation, and really need to know what Blizzard has to tell you, it could come in handy. Definitely earned a place in my bookmarks, just in case.
And having it in quick and easy online text form means we can script it to go elsewhere, right? Anyone want to try hooking a Twitter account (http://twitter.com/) up to this thing?Filed under: Tips (http://www.wow.com/category/tips/), Realm Status (http://www.wow.com/category/realm-status/), Odds and ends (http://www.wow.com/category/odds-and-ends/), Blizzard (http://www.wow.com/category/blizzard/)
Link to the launcher text (http://www.wow.com/2009/05/21/link-to-the-launcher-text/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Thu, 21 May 2009 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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