Arugal (OCE) is going to be a disaster at launch

People are in, lots of people queued up at the character screen prior to 8am (which blizz confirmed in a post a little while back that you could do)

TBH I don’t think the day one queues are such a big deal, the alternative is to have a bunch of servers which in a few weeks/months will all be low pop due to attrition and then everyone would be whinging about that and blizz would have the nightmare of server merges to deal with. Short term pain for long term gain.

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THIS ISSUE WAS RAISED DAYS BEFORE LAUNCH… I truly don’t understand how blizzard could not see that a single pvp server for 2 countries wouldnt be enough???

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I queued up a 7:40am (opens at 8), 3000 in queue and 1000 to go now.

Had to be logged in well before to avoid a queue.

  1. Few more hours and I’ll be in.

Have you seen the que’s?

If the queue was actually moving I’d be happier. Over an hour and it’s only moved about 1400 spots… still got like 3600 to go. Wish I knew you could queue up before 8. Oh well.

These queues are very frustrating but to be honest this had to be expected and Blizzard should not be releasing a new PvP server right now. If these queues persist for several days then they probably should as employed people will be totally unable to play with these queues. Can’t let that happen for too long or they will just give up.

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Mate there’s a 4 hour queue over a full server and it’s not even peak time. We need another one or we’ll be in queues for months and possibly years.

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4.5k in queue down from 5.5k and my estimated time has gone up to 270 mins.

I started queuing around 7:55. I assumed the queue wouldn’t be that big after all the reassurance I read online that Blizzard was prepared. Clearly not the case…

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I queued up 15 minutes beforehand. The queue dropped quite quickly before the realm was live. Once it went live it started falling far more slowly. Also the game has been live for an hour. I have improved by approximately 500 spots in that hour.

I think the only thing they really prepared for was the hundreds of thousands of complaints that would inevitably be coming their way.

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I knew it, i bloody knew it.

I said back when they first announced the servers that one PvP realm just wasn’t going to cut it, and look, it isn’t cutting it, color me surprised

Good lord saveth the queen.

How could we not see this coming? :wink:

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Got in straight away this morning after logging in 25 min before world opened.

Disconnected, now 9,500 in queue with a 600 minute wait time.

GG Blizzard, thanks for limiting Oceanic players to 1 PvP server.

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same here :frowning:

OP nailed it

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We need a new PvP server. We should have launched with minimum 2 PvP servers and 1 PvE.

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Same here, in as soon as the button lit up, DC’ed, now at 586min wait time 8756 in queue… at least we are getting the authentic Frostmourne experience :rofl:

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almost 10k queue. He was right!

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Thanks to those of you acknowledging my efforts to have this corrected in advance. Sorry for those stuck in the 11k queue which could have easily been avoided.

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