Yup. Queues suck. I’ve sat through my share of them over the years. We all have.
Before we flip this switch though we should seriously consider some alternatives.
Blizz. We all know how bad the bots will hurt the subs if you ban them all over night.
What im propsing is you ban 2% of them a week until queues go down.
Long bans too. Get them out of the queue!
To lessen queues further. Limit the number of accounts an individual can have logged in simultaneously to 2 until the lock down is over.
The anti afk cheaters are not helping this at all. They too need to be addressed. They are literally holding spots just to hold them.
This is not helping the situation either.
Enforce your policies and these queues go down.
I promise you. I will prepurchase Shadowlands and a store mount if you don’t use layering again in Classic and you explore other ways in reducing the queues.
The minute I see confirmation of a banwave I’ll swipe my CC.
Thank you for reading.
What alternatives? You don’t mention ANY alternative major fixes to the queue problem. NONE of the things you talk about will reduce the queues by thousands of players per realm.
Instead you want to take advantage of the problem to push YOUR agenda: anti-bot, anti-multiple-accounts, anti-afk, whatever. These things have NOTHING to do with the queues. They’re just things that you want. They are YOUR agenda.
Literally 1000’s of bots pluhging up the queues. Ban them. Watch queues go down.
Multi-boxers controller more than 1 account while other players sit in the queue. Put a cap on it or disallow it on those packed realms until after quarantine.
This does impact queues. Make some concessions for your fellow player.
Stop afking to “save” your spot. This too affects queues when so many are doing it. Quit cheating the anti afk system. You are not playing let others play.
Yes. This too is driving these queues.
For the love of God roll some alts on the lower pop servers for awhile. We have nothing but time right now. Make an ally toon! Help the balance don’t contribute to the imbalance and the queue.
Yes. There are more people playing. Yes. We all want to play. Spread out! Virtual social distancing.
Don’t turn layering back on. This can be managed without it.
Lol. Nah. I’m done trying to remove the carebears from pvp servers.
Who isn’t? Botters.
Read through my post history. I have multiple accounts and dabble in multi boxing myself. I’ve always said it should have a cap. Especially right now on those packed servers.
Defined as cheating in the ToS and most of the time is done with automated 3rd party macro software. Again. Clearly defined as against the ToS and actionable.
Again. Holding spots is clogging up the queue and making more people do the same thing. To save “their spot”.
No. Not whatever. No layering. No agenda. Just. No. Layering.
Mathematics says you’re wrong.
I’m sure abusing layers isn’t on anyone’s agenda who’s for layering either? Right?
Suppose hiding from pvp on pvp servers with layering isn’t on anyone’s agenda either. Right?
Naw. Ion promised. Layering would be gone and never used again. Alternatives over layering are a plenty. Players need to move their own arses.
Roll an alt.
Move raid days/times.
Roll an ally.
Take the free transfer.
Ban the bots.
Limit multi boxxing.
Suspend the anti afk cheaters.
Do something besides flipping that switch. Once they flip it again.
Ha! Famous last words…you think imbalance means anything now? Wait until they raise the caps :o
How is Smolderweb btw? Should I roll Horde.?Maybe an Orc hunter named Hisideous?
We used to do that back in the day when trying to find the best clusters when the community was trying to ‘solve’ the server bouncing.
Maybe the other solution is to CRZ the smaller servers…
Anyway. I am dead set against raising caps regardless and don’t think layering was all that bad. But then again Im mostly on PvE now and dont see a dog in the pvp fight cool enough to adopt. When I do go back itll be on Faerlina
No, this will get anyone who’s just keeping themselves logged in by coming back every so often and hitting space bar. I do this all the time just comeback and move or type something to stay in. That would LOOK like i’m a botter by just movin an inch or jumping so that would Falsely target me for a Botting Ban.
WHAT THEY NEED TO DO IS RAISE POPULATION CAPS BY GETTING BETTER SERVER HARDWARE
There is a thread that is actively being monitored by a Blue poster, and it’s soliciting feedback on this very topic:
Knowing that, why would you create your own post whose contents will rapidly find their way to the bottom of the posts? Put your thoughts into the Blue thread so that Blizzard actually sees at them!
