Hmm.. by reading the the chinese wow forums on wowchina.com and by refering to some of my chinese wow friends, it seems that the9 did not upgrade the wow servers instead merged it with area 4 and gave another game called "The Sun" the servers. Many chinese wow players are furious and there has been a riot at the gate of the9. I do not know the reason behind this lie but if you read the forums on wowchina.com there are millions of angered chinese players. This resulted in chinese wow players crashing the servers by all logging on one server and lagging it till it drops. You can also notice the servers are also much slower than they were before. Hopefully, one day the servers will be updated, but it is not now.

wierd . . .

.....disappointed.....play from a foreign country is already difficult but if the servers are slowed, what are we gonna do...!

I tried to have a quick look at the official forums, but i didn't find anything. Guess my chinese ain't good enough -_-'.
Is it normal that I can't even read a closed topic??

And can you link 1 thread so we can read it?

Viva la revolution! pour le resistance!!

so what are they protesting about really? the fact that TBC isn't here yet or some other reason unknown to us that pertains to the merging of the 2 servers?

I don't know about this and haven't heard anything, but my ping has doubled since the "upgrade".

server 4 upgrade had not changed the ping problem... It seems that we are a little bit better than before, but our realm is low pop, so it is not a good example.

1) the sun sucks. i have an account.
2) servers ahve been merged, yes
3) ping is better, lag is wonderfully not present, even with a merge.
4) i am gonna spread stuff and rumors as well. apparently it works well on our forums
5) FUD

They are angry because they gave the new/better servers to The Sun.

The9 is very on 9

Naklin wrote:

3) ping is better, lag is wonderfully not present, even with a merge.

I'm not too sure about that, I used to get ping in the 20ms to 50ms, now it seem I got occational red ping spikes (around 800ms to 1000ms) but usually on 100ms to 150ms.

i think that it is impossible to get the truth out of this. Lag could be the result of tweaking or optimizations. It could be a good idea to wait a little before coming to conclusions.

well here is the forum where you can find all the complaints. An article about the9 giving a part of the servers to the game "The Sun" was also posted but i can't seem to find the article as it refreshes so fast with the new threads being made so fast.

http://bbs.wowchina.com/bbs/bbs_list.aspx?forum_id=36

I can't say this is entirely true as i don't have evidence. Though through the posts written on the forums and hearing from my Chinese friends who play both games WoW and The Sun noticed that before the server upgrade The Sun servers were extremely slow and now after the upgrade they recieve a ping around 40 plus the WoW servers suddenly lag incredibly. It seems rather suspicious.

Oh yeah, I went there. I tried to find 1 specified post talking about it. I didn't find cause of my bad chinese, but I was impressed by the number of answers!!!!!

Ah i found a link
http://bbs.ngacn.com/read.php?tid=960616&page=e&fpage=1

quote from link, " 这让我想起前天一位朋友说。这次WOW服务器调整是为了SUN开新区做装备，把WOW的一部分服务器“借给”SUN用。这样开SUN服务器又能赚上一比了。"

thanks.
I had a quick look. Gosh, I found that picture!! I think it basically sum up the players state of mind right now...