I logged in when I resubbed just to look at what it has become since TBC.
The mounts have gotten pretty… I’ll say that.
I was there for that one, and had maybe an hour queue at the most… during the peak times.
The original launch was nothing like this for me.
They did not have numbers to look at as much as they do now. Their name save process alone should have SCREAMMMMMMMED that they were not prepared.
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The servers crashed was more like it. Was probably the only time i ever remember getting refunded game time. The servers were down almost 3 days over a week the second week of it.
God damn, and I thought the other thread was depressingly naive and this one has 100 upvotes for arguing that Blizzard is intentionally sabotaging a product that is making them millions of dollars. I wish I could say it was unbelievable but this sort of hysterical nonsense is par for the course for this subreddit.
No, not intentionally. Ignorantly. They are being eagerly ignorant.
You are correct. They did have an issue with that. No question server stability was not what it is today.
But there was never a time that I spent hours on end in queue… This time after that launch I was probably 25-ish.
I’m currently 10… Sigh
Not to mention they made such a big deal with name reservations.
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No, they aren’t. They understand full well that Classic lives and dies based on its community aspect. In BFA you can get away with being on a dead server due to all the cross-server functionality. You don’t have that luxury on classic. They also know the basic rule that eventually player activity will drop (it has already dropped significantly but that is to be expected). If they panic and open a bunch of servers now to accommodate the load, that will likely just lead to a bunch of dead servers down the road when activity dies down. You are already seeing an issue where some of the classic servers have no queue at all and pretty moderate populations while some are overflowing with 10k+ queues. Those moderate servers could very well end up dead and only time will tell if it was worth opening them up in the first place rather than waiting out the launch rush.
Dropped so fast they made another server available? Interesting. Them releasing another server just pwned your whole post.
I absolutely get the frustration, but if you think they deliberately went out to do this, you are mistaken, I don’t believe that for one second.
Agreed but then they could negotiate free transfers off if that were to happen, there has to be a fall back plan.
There’s no point in reasoning. People have propagated insane conspiracy theories on this forum so it’s no surprising this is the new thing.
Last year it was Blizzard intentionally made BfA a bad expansion so they could kill WoW sooner than later.
Now it’s Blizzard sabotaging the Classic servers so people lose interest and play BfA instead.
Once the queues die and people are finally able to play, it’ll be something else I’m sure. That’s how it always is. The people on this site are never happy.
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They’re not intentionally sabotaging their own product, they’re destroying it because of their own incompetence and ineptitude.
What makes a loser a loser is that a loser cannot stop ****ing up. What’s even worse, is Blizzard has the resources and big wigged educated people to figure these things out for them and yet, they fail. You can’t be a bigger loser than that.
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Blizzard,
You are not prepared.
77 minute queue?
No realm forums?
I can’t even post on my main.
Chill in 3 weeks you’ll be asking them to merge servers when the novelty of classic wears off and 90% of the people give up at level 25.
yeppers, this must be what blizzard does to a game that they cant benefit from in game purchases.
This is a win win for Blizzard. No matter how much you complain
Those servers were opened during the peak load, so no it doesn’t.
Personally my favourite is how their levelling changes 7.3.5, which made levelling from 1-100 take longer, were done purely to sell more level boosts. Meanwhile many of the same people praise classic WoW for its slower levelling. Lul.
Look at the title. Does ignorant imply intention?