You mean more like the first month. Sliding around because you wanted to loot something lasted for a couple weeks at least.
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Isn’t the launch still about 2 months away?
On a side note, lag spikes, queues on full servers and random disconnects are in line with the Vanilla experience of yesteryear.
Pfft! Away with you, sirrah, and your noisesome logic!
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I was completely unaware of another stress test until I read this thread, lol! I was able to play up to level 4 the evening after the first official stress test. I will definitely play classic when it releases, but I think the missing QOL features will drive me back to retail or unsub after a month or two.
Blizzard could always shut down a few servers on retail and use those server blades for classic.
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It’s almost as if that’s the point of a stress test. Who knew. That being said, if they don’t do anything and leave it as is it’ll be a more accurate recreation of classic.
When people say “that’s what stress tests are for” they don’t strictly mean a stress test is to find out if the servers will fail.
In many cases the servers are set up specifically TO fail.
Edit: They want to locate specific points of failure so they set things up specifically to fail. They aren’t just ‘trying their best and seeing if it’s good enough’.
People demanded the classic experence.
The thing is… Stress Test =/= Play time!
You aren’t going to be playing… you are going to be hitting their servers to stress test them!
I’ve experienced none of that.
It runs the same as playing BFA, for me. Made character, playing fine, no lag or disconnecting.
Yeah, I remember Vanilla near the start; It was insanely bad.
Isn’t the point of stress testing is to see how many players creates said lag/dc/etc?
Its like they are still working on a product that isn’t due for release for a few months.
They only have a handful of stress tests scheduled, the beta doesn’t have a lot of people on it, and August isn’t that far away. If Blizzard wants a smooth launch, they are running out of time.
If the launch went smooth it wouldn’t be very classic like. I expect to be seeing queues of 1000+ for the first week or two when you try to log in, just as I used to experience every time I tried logging into blackrock back in the vanilla days.
This was the scariest thing in the entire world to happen upon for the first time. And it wasn’t just Vanilla, I think it went all the way up to Wrath.
Think the primary purpose of the stress test is marketing and marketing research.
Beta testers have priority access so streamers can effectively televise the event to generate hype. But for the vast majority of us stress test access was handed out to see if we would try to log in so they can get some data on how many people are truly interested.
A lot, more then most people including Blizzard probably realize.
And the loading screen countdown with the estimated time in queue