My 15 minutes of fame

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2007
Playing on Al'Akir isn't easy sometimes. Known for some great PvP-players, and infamous for the invention of "graveyard camping" in battlegroup "Blackout", players from Al'Akir are seen with a mix of envy and disgust. I don't really care that much, since I am not one of the pro players who made the server famous (well, in our battlegroup at least) and I don't take pride in incidently playing on the same server.
Still, back in the days Al'Akir was known for something else: It's bad performance. Constant crashes, lots of downtime and bad lag that often made raiding impossible even when the server was up. I still remember the day when half of Al'Akirs playerbase (including myself, I have to admit) was temporarily banned from the forums because they spammed the general forums with hundreds of "Fix Al'Akir!" threads.
And I remember a pretty hillarious screenshot from the realm-status forums that said "Al'Akir is currently available. We are working to correct this." Sadly I can't find that one anymore, if someone from Al'Akir reads this and still has the screenshots, I would be happy about a short notice.

Well, what I wanted to write about in the first place: My 15 minutes of fame. Because of my work, I have been to the E3 every year from 2003 to 2006. And one day shortly before E3, when lag on Al'Akir was bad again and I was playing together with my guildmate Bull (the best drunk-tank the world has ever known!), I said something along the lines: "Maybe I should buy some hardware and give it to some Blizzard guy at E3 so they can improve the performance of this server!" But Bull came up with a way better idea: "Make a T-Shirt saying Fix Al'Akir! and take a poto of you wearing it in front of the Blizz booth. You would be a hero!" Well, I hardly could let that opportunity pass, could I? So I made the T-Shirt and took it to E3. And there, I did even more: I got Lead Designer Tom Chilton to sign it and to be in the picture together with me. Man, was I proud!

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1. #1 Darx im November 2007
   Rating: 0   
   XD
   it´s a very interessting story.
   I like it ^^
   
   so greets to you