[139940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: World of Warcraft may begin using IPv6 on Tuesday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Chown)
Sun Apr 24 11:54:53 2011
From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:54:35 +0100
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On 23 Apr 2011, at 23:29, Tom Hill wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 13:09 -0500, Kevin Day wrote:
>> For those that don't know, World of Warcraft is currently the largest =
online role playing game, with somewhere over 12 million subscribers.
>>=20
>> Version 4.1 of the game is expected to be released this Tuesday, =
which will be automatically pushed to all clients. The current Beta =
version of 4.1 has full IPv6 support. In the beta, it's automatically =
enabled if you have native IPv6 (non-6to4, non-Teredo). While Blizzard =
has been pretty silent about this, barring a last minute revert or delay =
of this patch, there are suddenly going to be a bunch more users that =
can potentially use IPv6. And these users are the type who are going to =
be especially sensitive to latency, jitter and packet loss, since this =
is a real-time game platform.
>>=20
>> For those of you with Help Desks who have to support users like this, =
the associated setting in the game's Options menu is apparently called =
"Enable IPv6 when available". It's apparently grayed out if you do not =
have IPv6 at all, unchecked by default if you are on 6to4 or Teredo, and =
checked by default if you are on native v6. The tooltip says: "Enables =
the use of IPv6, the technology behind the next-generation Internet. =
Requires IPv6 connectivity to the internet. Checking this box without =
IPv6 connectivity may prevent you from playing WoW."
>>=20
>> Anyone from Activision/Blizzard who would like to chime in with more =
details? :)
>=20
> I can't say that I'm from Blizzard, but I'm *seriously* impressed by
> them for making this happen. Kudos to Blizzard!
Confirmed in patch notes:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/patch-notes/ptr-patch-notes
Tim
