WoW servers are currently down while patch 3.3.5 is being applied, and I suddenly had a thought for an “improvement” to the launcher.
Currently, to find out server status, there’s only a couple methods. You can either go to the status website (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmstatus/), or keep trying to log in over and over. My thought is simply a little ticker, as in the scrolling thing on the bottom of CNN for stocks for instance, that lists server names in red for down, green for up. WoW now has far too many servers to do this with easily, however.
Now, some MMO’s now have you login thru the launcher, where as WoW loads the game and then the user logs in. Since the user can’t login thru the launcher, there’s no “easy” way for the launcher to know what server the user has characters on. So why not just an option to list which servers I’d like to see?
Just a thought, nothing special.
