Your implication that any problems are strictly caused by increased traffic is flawed. Unless you work in Cryptic's data center, I suggest you put your points forward as hypotheticals instead of facts. For all we know, Cryptic believed their hardware was rated to handle the kind of traffic that they have seen since NW went…
Bye. No, seriously. All of you who are upset by emergency maintenance like this and are cancelling subs or refusing to ever buy ZEN again or whatnot...see ya later. And good riddance. Am I disappointed that they're down? Yes. But it's damn difficult to replace switches, routers, or other critical networking hardware…