All I can say is there is a real difference between mature people and whiny children here as of late.
I had this problem last night. Had it again tonight. My husband finally had some free time and we were going to level together. We had been looking forward to jumping into this together and I can’t get on.
But we are both mature people and understand this is going to happen. Yes it’s frustrating, but it’s not like Blizzard isn’t actively trying to fix it. Most of you here getting all sorts of upset act like this is as simple as plugging your computer in.
My husband works on security systems all day, every day. He will tell you that even with the simple equipment, things mess up and you can’t immediately know why. You need time to troubleshoot and then come up with a good solution.
It stinks, but find something else to do. You’ll live. They are real people working hard. In fact, I’m guessing many employees are working extra hours right now just to get us the expansion out fully. It’s frustrating how many people act like Blizzard is a robot that is expected to work perfectly. This isn’t Blizzard’s first time releasing an expansion. They’ll get it.
I’m not happy it broke. Nobody really would be. I just know there are real people doing their jobs to fix it.
The problem is blizzard has lost all of it’s credibility. They used to be trusted in the gaming world.
What they need to do is have actual updates every hour or so on what they are doing. It would take a few minutes but it would let players know something is begin done.
Right now they is zero communication and perception is quickly becoming reality.
Not zero communication. Just about 45 minutes ago on the tech support forum AND on Twitter, they let us know they are once again working on the issue. If there’s nothing else to say, there’s nothing else to say.
Last I was seeing, Blizzard was trying to listen and communicate more. This is a brand new expansion release. It’s only the pre-patch, but the big stuff came. Just like every other time, there are connection issues. The great part is getting it seen and dealt with now instead of when Shadowlands launches fully.
There’s no reason to pop up every hour with two pages of notes on what their team is doing. This isn’t blog worthy.
When was the first one? Last I checked every xpac the level cap increased instead of decreased. (TBC: 70, wrath: 80, cata: 85, mop: 90, WoD: 100, legion: 110, BfA: 120, SL: 60) looks like the first level squish to me
Okay, what happened this afternoon/evening or precisely what did they break? I was playing early this afternoon, no problems, even made a new character. Logged of for dinner and classes tonight. Come back and my characters are lost again. Lol, what did they do? Here I thought SWTOR was horrible at breaking things, not sure who is worse.
None of my characters are available still and I can’t make any new ones either. i dont have any sympathy for blizzard, they should hire better employees, they have the money.
The point isn’t whether it should be delayed or not. The point is if you have a PTR for people to find bugs, so you can fix them before it goes live, than you should fix the bugs people report before it goes live.
They picked the release date, not me. I figured when they release it, the bugs will be fixed. Why would I think they’re going to not fix the bugs people are reporting.
The forum you’re quoting was in support for delaying the pre-patch so they could have more time to get achievements. Not for the dev team to fix more bugs. But I wouldn’t expect your tiny brain to understand that.
I disabled all addons and stopped getting “character not found”. I was only using up to date ones, but it was still breaking it. Unless I just got really lucky timing.
And just what does this have to do with them doing their jobs correctly? If you accept a position to perform a function for pay, you should then do your best possible function for that pay (else you shouldn’t have taken the job) if after 3 Expansions (Looks @ unnamed lead developer) you still can’t do the job correctly, then its time to move on either by your own admission or by a senior executives fiscal responsibility decision. (shakes head in disbelief that failures of this proportions in a business now come with no costs to the lead failure)
