Like it or not, at least Blizzard has addressed the elephant in the room - if you expect to play the D4 Beta on Friday be prepared to join the other millions of players waiting for a spot.
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it will be chaotic no doubt, but better than last Friday. Last Friday put the servers to test, so they will be better prepared tomorrow.
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First time I take it?
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Not nobody is going to deny Furbolg his chance at playing on Friday! NOT NOBODY!
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queue will be dead by the evening then there just wont be one… like every other time… blizz launches have increased 1000 fold in quality since wow vanilla… fact…
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when game goes live there will be queue no doubt, but I don’t anticipate anything like last friday.
I like how you phrased that. 
Actually, all are welcome and can’t wait to see how many try it out. Just hoping they got/get a handle on the queue times and D/C’s at the very least.
if you are so worried about it just wait a day cause you are only thinking about your Rig now and this time it is a stress test. So it is up to you. They already gave the heads up weeks ago.
Oh noes, stress testing with millions of others.
It really was only an issue for about 8 hours. And again, if server queues and some lag are all we have it will be a successful launch.
They have blatantly said they are going to force Queues on Friday to test the servers…
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yes they did so they know how many are queued in for minutes to hours. That will give them how many servers they will need for launch day.
That is wishful thinking…it will be chaos again for sure.
It will not be better. If the last 20 years is any indication, they will not deploy enough resources to ensure that every player can actually get in-game.
Imagine trying to check your email and being put in a queue. Or trying to watch a youtube video and being put in a queue. Who would tolerate that?
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i expect to get in queue early, get disconnected just as i enter the game. then have a 2 hours queue. after that everything should be gucci
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Eh, they are intentionally allowing/forcing queues as part of the testing that they need to do so there will be some.
They put up a post about it at the top of the forums.
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Naturally they wont, it would be dumb to fork out the money for the real estate to provide service to the MAX load, opposed to just the average load thats to be expected with some wiggle room. Even with virtual expansion capabilities, you still have to pay for that. It sucks, but thats why it sucks, and always will.
This is what Beta is all about man. Stress testing their servers, testing their content, giving feedback, and reporting bugs. If it is just 1 million players, they have fixed ques for that. If it is more than than, which I think there will be, then prepare for the que times because they will happen.
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Only actual day that even matters is the 25th, but with a huge wave of low level players it’s going to be hell to get enough 25’s to even do the world boss event at specific times. I wasn’t able to get him down in two attempts cause low levels kept taking spots of actual useful dps.
If they were smart they would open servers slightly early(30m-1hr) at a random undisclosed time. This would remove that spike you get which causes problems and allow a more gradual flash flood of logins. Sadly they aren’t smart and will open the doors to the masses at 9am, like black friday at BestBuy.