Yeah, I figured as much. Herod is everywhere, I’m having nightmares about extensive queues. Nightly.
If Blizzard lets the game open with high queues, they should be ashamed of themselves. The servers easily could have been closed when they got ‘high’. Instead, Blizzard is letting people continue to sign up with full servers. The whole thing is such a untenable situation. Just open up a bunch of servers and let the chips fall. The worse that can happen is they give free transfers to lower population servers or they connect servers. Or, hey, maybe Classic will be a big success and opening servers would have been the right thing to do. It’s your iconic 15 year old game, Blizzard. Have a little faith in it.
No problemo there.
I never trusted a Dwarf til now.
What I would like to know is what exactly is the 10k referring to. Does it mean 10k accounts total on the realm? Does it mean 10k more than all of the server’s layers can contain at once?
It was absurd to toss out that 10k number without context.
That would be a good question for today’s AMA. Doubtful they’ll give the gritty little details, but still worth hearing what they would have to say.
Clearly the second option.
20K people on a server is full, but so is 80K. Guess which one has the longer queues?
Many players got the names they wanted to reserve within the first hour before it became too bloated. There is zero incentive to move and lose those names. May as well just leave those toons there, and wait till release and create additional characters with your available character slots.
No, that is precisely NOT clear. It could mean that their login servers still suck donkey balls and it involves a choked queue system to get everyone into the server.
I know they’re pinching pennies here, but why allow “massive overpopulation” to happen in the first place? Trying to kick people off isn’t a good counter-solution, and neither is a blanket warning about wait times.
All of this is just a testament to how popular we all knew it would be.
It doesn’t get any clearer than that.
When they say a 10k queue, that means that the entire server (layers included) is completely full and there are 10k more trying to log in that are waiting in line.
Many here will state that they never capped stuff in the past. That is absurd reasoning and the definition of insanity.
Dude, the 10k queue is not in question. Perhaps actually reread my posts and slowly try to understand what I wrote.
I literally secured a name on Herod yesterday.
People are put in queues when the realm is full, so I’m not sure what is unclear.
[citation needed]
Because even if the population doesn’t drop at all after the first few weeks (a BIG if), the number of people playing at any given time will lower drastically.
Simply put, you might be willing to play 70 hours the first week, but you won’t play that much every week.
I’m hoping for a resurgence that has staying power. If that’s the case, queues could get old depending on just how long the wait will be.