Can we get a blue post response on queue times?

[Depressíng-earthfury]

@Partyrock-shadowstrike

If Blizzard fixed it, they would lose hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. Here is how it works. Massive queue issues on the mega server. They start free character transfers off the mega server. So you go to another server. Eventually the server you transferred to becomes a ghost town. You decide to transfer to where everyone is – which is the original server you transferred off of; the mega server. You pay for a server transfer. Blizzard makes money.

So if they fixed this, they would lose out on all that juicy transfer money later on down the line.

I wonder how much money they gain from transfers vs how much they lose from people quitting in frustration, and unsubbing.

[Yggdrasil-grobbulus]

They don’t care about que times. Its the standard blame the playerbase and the army of shills that support us will attack those that are in the que line.

[Creepindethh-grobbulus]

They did provide a blue post on this FYI. It’s right here on the first page of the forum posts (i dont know how to link posts).

[Sunnani-grobbulus]

@Amordrone-faerlina

Which is a far cry from the 6 hours you suggested via suggesting I called 10 am “prime time”. Esp as mentioned labor day weekend as such expected longer ques today which I used fair as my example that as mentioned did have longer at only about an hour around noon as mentioned even your example of grob dose not even come close to show what is required for you to suggest I called 10 am “prime time” which would require you to as mention show a 6 hour que at 10 am.

this just in: a queue is apparently only a problem when it is 6hrs. anything less is not a problem. Armordrone said so.

[Amordrone-faerlina]

Do read again.

You specially quoed my post saying 6 hours ques only happen at prime time and tryed to claim I said prime time was 10 am.

Than after asking for you to show 6 hours at 10 am you say its 2 hours.

I never once said ques less than 6 hours where any less or more of a issue to you.

But do try again kid.

[Sunnani-grobbulus]

@Amordrone-faerlina

Do read again.

You specially quoed my post saying 6 hours ques only happen at prime time and tryed to claim I said prime time was 10 am.

Than after asking for you to show 6 hours at 10 am you say its 2 hours.

I never once said ques less than 6 hours where any less of a issue to you.

But do try again kid.

forum warrior.

blizzard bootlicker.

shill.

take your pick. either way, i really dont care how many mental hoops you jump through to make your argument. bye.

[Amordrone-faerlina]

none of the above.

All I have done is spoke what is true based on what we know never once said if I would like shorter ques or not which obv would like shorter ones but that doesn’t make it practical or dose it make longer ques not ok.

Fact is longer ques are ok nad have been happening since the dawn of wow on large realms. It is vary much part of what we signed up for when we joined those servers and complaining about something we knew we would have and accepted the risk of when joining those realms is a little late in the ball game.

Asking for blizzard to make ques shorter but knowing its not going to happen right away is one thing and something I have done. Demanding a blue post or immediate changes is a completely different thing. I have spoken against the unreasonable demands of those that think its possible just to “increase layers, or increase server size” like there simple matters there not (esp as those that would want to make the changes do not have the power to till upper management lets them and getting there approval is not a short process). While I have called out those that are outright lying like the one above that claimed a constant 6 hour que.

Correcting those that lie is not shilling blizzard its counting the tools of the fourms. Just like I did to you in calling our your lies when you claimed it was said 10 am was prime time when that never happened. If you want your thoughts to be heard and valid the most important thing is to be accurate. Lying dose not help your case and in fact hurts the argument as a whole.

[Balerinka-atiesh]

Ok I’ll enjoy my dead game that has queues you’re complaining about.

[Menotaur-grobbulus]

@Magikhant-grobbulus

some kind of official response.

They gave you a response.

Either transfer off, start fresh, or deal with the queues.

[Heavywood-grobbulus]

They already did it was the free transfers post lol

[Hydroxpally-sargeras]

They never respond to queue times unless it’s over a week. Even then sometimes they don’t respond at all.

[Potsnherbs-grobbulus]

booking an appointment for something days in advance and then showing up with 0 wait is such a laughably bad analogy I don’t even know what to say

[Nickole-mankrik]

Do you want an MMO or a single player game? As I leveled my DH and my Hunter in Shadowlands I saw all of 4 people in the zones because Blizzard had layered it up so much. It’s an MMO, you’re supposed to see actual players. I remember seeing 30-40 people on both sides in zones playing the original WoW, TBC, and Wrath. Now with layering I’m lucky to see 10 at best.

[Krienn-emerald-dream (Krienn)]

Mispeled had a solid post in the CC. Give it read and a like if you agree

[Classic] The unacceptable state of Classic servers

Server and faction balance aside, this should never happen in 2022: [image] Third day of pre-patch and we are still facing a queue 2 hours long. This kind of unplayability would have had me fired from my job as an online developer. I cannot comment on the technology Blizzard uses, but I can tell from this situation that it is either old technology that needs replacing or lack of expertise in online development or, worse, leaving it this bad on purpose to sa…

[Andelran-sargeras]

@Amordrone-faerlina

They are not there consistently.

every day starting at 3 server time until like 2am server time is not consistent to you? EVERY DAY!

[Magikhant-grobbulus]

@Amordrone-faerlina

It is harder than you make it to add capacity. There exist things called budgets. Adding capacity not only requires them to have capacity they can use to increase the servers which when every server is getting hit with higher numbers thats not always possible without getting more than they need in normal times this can be a costly thing to get extra computing power that will than be wasted under normal use.

Blizzard is part of a huge company and WoW has millions of subs paying about $10-15 per month (some subs from different parts of the world are less). They have the budget, they just don’t want to spend it and would rather give it to shareholders and sink the game. Immediate gratification vs long term satisfaction.

[Aguy-grobbulus]

Hey they did! Here you go Transfer Restrictions and Free Character Transfers Now Available -- Updated Nov. 22

[Amordrone-faerlina]

@Andelran-sargeras

@Amordrone-faerlina

They are not there consistently.

every day starting at 3 server time until like 2am server time is not consistent to you? EVERY DAY!

Read my comment again I said it was not consistently 6 hours that was claimed. Even your comment supports the fact it’s not consistent even if those times all where 6 hours (there not) as fact there are times without que means not constantly there.

[Amordrone-faerlina]

@Magikhant-grobbulus

@Amordrone-faerlina

It is harder than you make it to add capacity. There exist things called budgets. Adding capacity not only requires them to have capacity they can use to increase the servers which when every server is getting hit with higher numbers thats not always possible without getting more than they need in normal times this can be a costly thing to get extra computing power that will than be wasted under normal use.

Blizzard is part of a huge company and WoW has millions of subs paying about $10-15 per month (some subs from different parts of the world are less). They have the budget, they just don’t want to spend it and would rather give it to shareholders and sink the game. Immediate gratification vs long term satisfaction.

The shareholders not wanting to spend it is the vary definition of not having the budget. The shareholders not the ones maintaining the server set the budget. Having the money is not the same as having the budget there massively different but do keep showing you don’t understand basic business yet are trying to tell a multi million dollar company how to run its business.

The ones maintaining the server can’t go and make changes without approval and budget from the shareholders via there representatives. As such exactly as I said it’s not as easy as was claimed you have to get the shareholders to approve the budget and that won’t happen without the buisneas anaylists showing the loss of players loses them mroe money than the cost to upgrade and that report takes time.

They are not able to instantly go and upgrade servers as such demanding they do makes no sense as it won’t happen. While history has shown in short order the ques will die down and those that “quit” come back. So it’s not clear if it’s better for them to upgrade servers or not cost wise.

[Andelran-sargeras]

but it is… every day