I haven’t noticed, in fact. I had an 8 minute queue on launch day at 8pm eastern time, and no queues since.
Whatever magical attraction the handful of ‘popular’ servers have, it means jack/squat to the rest of them or to most people playing.
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I believe retail was a social bust. I was the only guild me ever on with some offline for over a year.
I joined a server that didn’t have my names reserved due to queue times and found a guild with over 150 active members and a cool guild leader. Gonna stay on this server now. It’s been nice to have a social guild and guilds mean something again as well as random groups just to complete quests. Haven’t had that in a while on retail.
If anything I would say classic is reviving the social aspects of this old but epic game.
I mean, yeah, this. We were told weeks in advance Herod + other servers would have several hour queues, so I literally just sent email/Gchats to people saying “Hey, I’m not dealing with that, let’s not do that.” Any sane person would agree with the sentiment - we moved to one they opened later. The longest queue I’ve had was 10 minutes during peak use.
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They must not be good friends if they’re not interested in giving up their level 10 characters to play on the same server as you.
Three days of playing is too much of an investment to throw away, right?
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True.
Me too.
I’m on Kromcrush and I’ve only had to ever wait like 30 minutes to login.
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Screw your friends. You didn’t really like them to begin with. Make new friends and then post pictures so you’re old friends will be jelly.
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How is it Blizzard fault? Imagine this. Blizzard is a concert organizer. They sell unlimited number of tickets for a concert. They also allow unlimited registration for the concert. Blizzard knows the concert hall only hold 20k people, but they sell tickets for 200k people. Some of your friends get into the concert. Some are in queue for 15 hours.
You can talk to them via bnet.
Also, assuming you can talk to strangers, you can meet new people and make new friends. I know its hard, but there are lots of people out there that play this game - to exclude them is your choice, dont whine aboit how the game is ruined for you because you are anti-social.
Meeting new people is not the problem. It’s the people you have played with years ago. All this forced server jumping is making the reconnection a disaster. A social bust.
“My experience is affected in a negative way no one else’s is, the entire thing is a failure.”
My friends chose the same server because we have respect for eachother.
Technically they could and it’s not a bad idea. Infinite layers to make sure there’s no Q.
Before layering is dropped completely, you’ll know your current pop for how many realms you would need for each realm type.
The server structure makes realms just items in a database. It’s not hardware delineated like 2k4.
Other than more servers and locking servers after pop cap to omit queues, this would have been a viable option and easier to control from a population perspective.
Most folks will have to bounce once layering is out, anyhow. There’s little purpose to call any server a “home” at the moment.
I love all these posts. They really show the lack of effort with todays mentality. I remember true vanilla. I made a toon, leveled it to 51…decided I wanted a different class…leveled it to 60…Found out my RL friends played and a new server was starting in a few days and we all rerolled there…
These people in Classic that have scattered friends are sub 30, probably sub 20, and only sunk in not even 24 hours play time yet and cant seem to let “all their hard work” go 
Quit crying and pick a server as a group.
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I feel like this is less about Classic being a social bust and more about poor communication and management on your end. Our guild was able to communicate with over 40 people from or raid team on retail that disbanded at the end of Legion. These people come from our guild over the last 10 years that for many had not played since Wrath or Cata. We all rolled the same server together (Fairbanks) and have had a blast playing with each other yet again. Yes the queue times have been a bit of a barrier to entry for us to play together but it has not made it impossible in the slightest. Hell, some of the people in our guild are not even remotely close to the same time zones (different countries) an still we were able to co-ordinate and play together.
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Um no thanks. The guild I’ve been in since BC rolled on a PVE server. I specifically decided to roll on a PVP server with my husband and without them while adding an alt to their PVE server. We made a plan and we stuck to it. With all the forms of out of game communication out there, if you didn’t make a plan with your social circle and stick to it, that’s your own fault. If other people scattered, it’s their fault. Blizzard can’t hold your hand through everything.
Yeah I like to get cooking/fishing done ASAP so I have support for my alts and never have a moment of “ah man I really should have leveled this before when I wasn’t busy” it took like 6 hours total though alot of that was because I farmed lions in hilsbrad so I could have pet food my picky wolf would eat “Oh yucky cooked fish!” little princess…
Sorry pal but flawed analogy.
Seems much more like Blizzard sold unlimited tickets to a PPV stream and let people know in no uncertain terms that there were different channels for chat some of which would likely be super crowded, the queue if you will.
But you and the people you wanted to watch with all just opted for a random channel and started watching the show, ultimately being spread out all over the place.
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Pick a low pop server like they warned huh?
And then that one filled up
So pick another
And then that one filled up
So basically just keep re rolling until the population dies down?
Yea sweet, good call guy
I picked non-streamer server and have been able play with my friends all of them… We all coordinated and picked times that queue was dead or slow on so we can jump in together and get to it. >_> So far we have had a blast… Might want to coordinate better.
classic is only a social bust if you didn’t put any effort into being social, so it’s on you
I legit joined a random guild on the forums and have been grouped up and in discord and whatnot with what were total strangers just a few days ago. should’ve coordinated with your friends if you wanted to play together
This is a really really hard problem. I don’t suppose you could just enjoy the game and make new friends along the way?