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[WestMountain]

The site will probably be down until 7 pm because of the overload of people watching that site

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

all i got was an error message, though it was a hilarious one

 

[T-Bone24]

Only 4 minutes, I'm guessing now after seeing "community event" is that it'll be a contest. No Dragon Age/Mass Effect crossover...



EDIT: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I refreshed the page and the site is unavailable!

Fail on an epic stance.

Thank God the Mass Effect site's still up with the countdown on it.

PS: One minute to go.

 

[Eleima]

Only seconds left!!! Can't wait!!!

 

[Ranooth]

OMG! It mad my browser refresh! What kind of withcraft is this?!

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

It's down...SHIT!

Those pesky Gnomes are banging away at the giant; steam-producing clockwork computers we keep in the basement guarded by Swikky the dire squirrel. We will be back up as soon as we can.

That squirrel isn't doing its job.

 

[Wolfram23]

hahaha the site crashed!

 

[Mercale]

Well that was predictable.

 

[Sir Ollie]

Classic internet cock-up

"Our Apologies

The BioWare websites; online store; master server; and online authentication are temporarily unavailable. Sorry folks; we're having a few technical difficulties. Those pesky Gnomes are banging away at the giant; steam-producing clockwork computers we keep in the basement guarded by Swikky the dire squirrel. We will be back up as soon as we can."

 

[Grayjack]

I waited for the countdown to finish, and I got an error page when it did.

 

[Gabanuka]

Our Apologies
The BioWare websites; online store; master server; and online authentication are temporarily unavailable. Sorry folks; we're having a few technical difficulties. Those pesky Gnomes are banging away at the giant; steam-producing clockwork computers we keep in the basement guarded by Swikky the dire squirrel. We will be back up as soon as we can.

 

[WolfMage]

I say it's just them fucking with the community, letting the site crash at zero hour.
But I'm cynical.

 

[UnkeptBiscuit]

It's time!

...


IT'S DOWN! Whoever called it, how the hell did you do that?
EDIT: Is it painfully ironic that You Can't Always Get What You Want by the Rolling Stones starts playing as soon as the countdown hit zero?

 

[Jandau]

The countdown hit Zero and the page went down. On one hand, it's a fail for Bioware, but on the other hand, it likely means that a LOT of people were refreshing the page at that moment...

 

[Calgetorix]

The site will go down for maintenance?

Probably the best bet. It seems so:

The BioWare websites; online store; master server; and online authentication are temporarily unavailable. Sorry folks; we're having a few technical difficulties. Those pesky Gnomes are banging away at the giant; steam-producing clockwork computers we keep in the basement guarded by Swikky the dire squirrel. We will be back up as soon as we can.

Sounds like a joke but still funny!

 

[Irridium]

COUNTDOWN IS OVER!

And here is what I got:

Our Apologies
The BioWare websites; online store; master server; and online authentication are temporarily unavailable. Sorry folks; we're having a few technical difficulties. Those pesky Gnomes are banging away at the giant; steam-producing clockwork computers we keep in the basement guarded by Swikky the dire squirrel. We will be back up as soon as we can.


FUCK!

 

[Sephychu]

Does it surprise anyone that the site just crashed?

 

[Susano]

It made my browser refresh and not work, and then said something about gnomes and being unable to connect to the server.

 

[ssj4raditz]

Our Apologies

The BioWare websites; online store; master server; and online authentication are temporarily unavailable. Sorry folks; we're having a few technical difficulties. Those pesky Gnomes are banging away at the giant; steam-producing clockwork computers we keep in the basement guarded by Swikky the dire squirrel. We will be back up as soon as we can.

Whoops!

 

[One Seven One]

The site will go down for maintenance?

wow, lucky guess.

the site did go down