1,000 people ahead of me, nice, and it’s not going down at all.
Looks like I won’t be playing today lmao, 8:30 pm here, gotta go to bed soon.
Good night!!! Better have a good night sleep than a crappy Overwatch gameplay experience.
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I was just saying this to my wife earlier. I never understand why they put these updates out at such weird hours, rather than over night to be ready and ironed out for the next day when the player base wakes up ready to go. I don’t take time off from work for video games, but I know some people who do for when a new game or etc is released. Why not let them have the day to enjoy it rather than push it out when the day is halfway over?
Or is this just another case of “only peasants don’t live on the west coast” that I should just be used to?
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Mine started at 200 and now it’s at 70 so…
So you want blizzard employees to have to stay up all night implementing a patch and then fixing anything that’s wrong with it instead of doing it during normal business hours? Most people are at work right now, dude.
I mean who cares about developer workloads and burnout anyway, amirite?
My day off and I sat in queue and now I am getting “Game server connection failed…retrying”, guess my hopes of playing on my day off are gone.
It’s almost like they knew what day this content was coming out and could have been prepared for it. Such as, “Hey guys, we’re gonna release this over night and fine tune it. We’re planned on giving overtime pay and you guys take an extra few days off after a successful launch.”
I worked retail for almost a decade and this is how good employers operate. You get slammed during holidays and then you get compensated for it with bonuses, time off, etc. I don’t expect them to stay up all night fixing the game and then going right back to work immediately after. You’re having a product launch/big update, you have a date this is going to happen, some of your customers take time off work to use said product. No different than a store staying open for a midnight launch of a new console or game. I’ve worked mid night launch for the Xbox 360 release, we didn’t just come right back at 8am the next day, we all started much later (the employees who did the event.)
It’s a nice middle ground.
Probably the same reason why I am NOT going to work at night to push some updates on the projects I work at. Hahaha just a trought…
I do not think Blizzard has night shifts but I might be wrong. Probably they want someone available to manage the process.
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I got there with 700 in front, took 5 minutes. There’s some hope but I think server is going to crap the bed real soon. Better safe than sorry so GN.
Yeah, this isn’t a retail job friend. This is a competitive salary job. Jobs like this don’t just give days off for someone doing their job, lol. If there is someone that is willing to work all night and all day, and someone who isn’t, guess who is getting the job.
That being said, no company is going to require their employees to work all night, when they can just as easily push it out during work hours, lol. But, oh, maybe a few people have to wait a little while longer to play the game. Oh, the horror!
I hope they’ve read the patch notes. Waiting in a 10k person queue to the “”“new season2"”" is gonna be real disappointing.
Gotta love they can’t have extra servers ready for load on launch day. All I’m getting is crap severs with 200ping. Or ones that don’t even connect. Such a waste of time.
I forgot. “Capitalism.” The never ending reason we can’t have nice things.
I know it’s a side topic, but you retain more workers and get more productivity when they’re happy. You attract more with honey, than vinegar. Just remember that if you’re ever in that position.
Yeah. Which is probably why they don’t push these things out overnight, lol.
Think you answered your own question.