I’m not sure what difference it makes. However a visit to CS would have shown you that people couldn’t log in or play the game. Starting with Kalimdor and spreading elsewhere.
Servers are slowly coming back up and hopefully will stay working this time.
They don’t give ETAs so we don’t get waves of people coming back over and posting more and more unreasonable responses to not being able to play the game.
They were sensible. It wasn’t a quick fix so they said they are working on it. They initally thought it could be resolved within an hour but clearly it was a far bigger Gremlin and it wasn’t going down easy.