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Harvey Randall

WoW's auction house broke for nearly a week, thanks to a code change that made a database table go from roughly 40,000 rows to 'tens of millions'

World of Warcraft The War Within screenshots.

World of Warcraft: The War Within is off to a decent start—there's been a bit of a deserved fuss over the new expansion's early access pricing, but a surprisingly good story campaign, gorgeous world, and a continued lean towards alt-friendly flexibility seems to have put the ambitious Worldsoul Saga in good standing.

Most players, it seems, have been having a good time. Unless they want to use the auction house, that is. Late last week, the in-game auction house—which players use to buy and sell important goods for things like crafting items—was busted on certain regional servers for an appreciable amount of players.

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