I want to lead with this - I feel like Blizzard owes a refund of game time.
Normal people with 8-5 jobs are getting to play 2 days a week…that’s 8 days a month, despite paying for 30. But the college kids, and school kids who can login before peak hours get unlimited playtime in that same period. I think its a bit insert less than appropriate word here.
But can we have a constructive chat about a solution?
Option 1:
Allow Free Transfers off Full Servers - I would happily move to Sulfuras right now from Herod if I could. But I can’t, and I can’t play the game. I haven’t been able to play a single minute since I went back to work. I will have to wake up at 4am just to get a slot on the server if I want to get a single day in on the weekend. This is not an experience I believe should just be left alone as it has so far.
Option 2:
Until a better solution is put in place a DAILY server reset occur at 6:30pm EST on Eastern servers (or appropriate for each timezone) so those coming from Work have the ability to login against AFKers, Botters, People account sharing to stay logged in, people using Remote Desktop to stay logged in, and or people who’ve had hours on hours of game time through the day. This just allows NORMAL adults to have a chance to play the game, against those who don’t have the same responsibilities.
Option 3:
I’d like to see them weigh accounts playtime, and enforce a playtime limit threshold for accounts who say have 50 hours played straight. Must swap out for spots with accounts that have 0-5 hours played if those accounts are sitting in Queue trying to play the game they are paying to play. So everyone paying gets equal playtime.
Personally I’d like to see all 3 take effect immediately so we stop catering to anyone under the age of 25. We need a better system for those who PLAYED Vanilla but are now 30 year old adults with jobs.
That isn’t the right answer to the problem, this isn’t a user problem and users should not be the ones who have to answer for Blizzard’s lack of preparedness / lack of options to address the problem.
They won’t be able to reduce layers if they can’t get population control under control. They need to get people off 10-20K queue servers, and why they are lagging on this is unacceptable.
you wanted a constructive talk yet start with an nonconstructive sentence.
Your feeling is wrong.
Solutions to the queue are already there, don’t want to sit in the queue, don’t play on a full server with a queue.
Somalion - i don’t think you realize at the launch day for naming there was only 2 servers. They added 2 before launch, and 1 the day of launch. The 2 they added are also at 8K queues. The ones POST launch are already at 2K queues.
There was no avoiding the queues PRE Launch. And Post Launch Blizzard has offered nothing to allow people to get off outside of re-roll, and that is to re-roll on new servers that ALSO have queues.
What you are saying makes 0 sense / you don’t know what you are talking about.
And yet here you are almost level 30 with no problem. You obviously are having no issues playing (30ish seems to be average for day 1 players right now)
You don’t pay for 30 days of real time. You pay for 30 days of availability. If you only log in one of those days, you’re not owed more time.
We don’t pay by time played, but rather in blocks we can pay. Asia used to, or maybe still does, pay by tile. Buy 3 hours and you’re cut off after that. You’d pay and then use up all the time you paid for and have to pay again.
In the rest of the world we pay by time period. I want to buy a 30 day pass, and whether I play 1 day or 30 days, it’s covered.
Really ? you can’t play at all. you can’t log into retail and play, you can’t log into one of the many classic servers with no queue and play ? you can’t wait out the queue for your choice to play on an overpopulated server and then play ?
YOU are being over dramatic here. you can play, you choose not to.
You picked Herod, you had to have known this was going to happen. Everyone knew there were going to be Q’s, doubling down on a server like that, and ignoring your chances of getting back in wasnt the smartest decision. Regardless of blizzard being unprepared(they were) Herod was one of the obvious ones.
not only obvious but Blizzard kept saying that servers like Herod would have huge queues. The OP ignored that and his CHOICE causes him to have to wait in queues.