Point out where I said that? Literally re-read it. It’s called assumptions. Not every person is going to reserve a name, meaning the actual population is going to be WAY more massive than that.
Exactly my point, it was insanely packed WITHOUT everyone making toons. Clear indication that HOLY COW maybe we should add 25+ more servers BEFORE launch and not after. 
That’s exactly what I’m saying happened…because it did. Which is why it’s stupid they were so unprepared. They had solid knowledge that there was going to be a TON of people, but waited 'till AFTER launch to open up over 25 new servers?
GET IT TOGETHER
Implying I’m not already calm. Grow up.
Blizzard knew that information days before launch with people reserving their toons. They knew that their servers were jam packed.
Lol your logic wow… just wow. You’re right, a multi billion dollar company didn’t see it coming but drougen from emerald-dream did. Oh if only you were leading the company, you’d have had this all figure out.
It’s not launch day anymore.
Rofl again flawed logic. You have no idea how many people signed up vs created the day of. You’re just making assumptions.
Rofl again flawed logic. You have no idea how many people signed up vs created the day of. You’re just making assumptions.
Can I live in your world? Are you surprised when the Sun rises every morning?
I mean they did, they literally said “be prepared for ques” they KNEW this was going to happen and didn’t make any more servers until after launch…now they’ve made over 25 servers and people are even more pissed because they had guild choices, leveled characters, and friends on one server and It’s all chaos now.
Like, how do you not understand that?
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No. I pay money to play. Not sit in a queue while Blizzard refuses to open more servers because they are salty that retail is a joke compared to what they thought would fail.
But that’s what happened… Are we living on the same planet? It literally happened yesterday. Did you already forget something that happened last night?
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There’s always queues on any release because they’d never be stupid enough to over supply servers. Again a billion dollar company probably has better cost sense than you.
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But they under supplied it…by over 25 servers and counting as they continue to add more.
Clearly not.
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Take the petition for vanilla as an example, that is 250,000+ people that signed the petition and was presented by an original dev Mark Kern. Now you have that amount of people PLUS an unknown amount of players who were not vocal. Let’s call them player x, let’s say there is another 5% of active subscribers that were not vocal:
2019 active player base = 5.03 million * .05 = 250150 = x + 250000 = 500150
This is just a very menial guess, without adding curious players or other variables that may influence demand. The actual number of players who have not vocalized their desire for classic may be much higher, possibly topping 25%.
You cannot expect a launch such as this to go smoothly.
it has been gr8 for me until tonight. Sitting at level 17 but can’t get back in…
Your point would be valid if I wasn’t completely used to smooth launch days from Wrath onwards.
Seriously, I remember the Wrath pre-patch crashing the servers. But after that point, the worst I can think of is WoD, with the bug where you got stuck floating mid air when going back to your Garrison.
Nothing on the level of waiting 45 minutes, getting a random disconnection, and being told to wait another 70 minutes.
15 years to get it right. But they will still make people change their main’s names after 12 years of playing on it. This “corporation” needs to chill, bro.
Holy crap dude what kinda mental gymnastics are you pulling here. You’re arguing something that happened literally LAST NIGHT didn’t happen?
Again a billion dollar company probably has better cost sense than you.
I would’ve thought so too yet here we are.
How I feel atm one member stuck out. Blizzard just needs to do free transfers off servers this packed. Even picked one to avoid queues since blizzard warned yet did not act upon their own warning.
I’d have to disagree.
As someone who has been playing on full servers since MoP, launch days haven’t been this bad in a long time (I was on low pop servers from TBC-MoP so I didn’t get the joys of those days).
WoD’s release is really the only comparable xpac to date that comes to mind, but this release is much worse. What made it worse was the opening to get names full well KNOWING the amount of people they had already. They waited until after launch to continuously add servers, which really screwed people over.
Like said below, Blizz has been doing this for a very long time. The last major sh*tstorm Blizz used the fact that their servers were old and out of date. The one before that was DDoS. That is definitely not the case now, unless they just didn’t allot for enough server space from the get go for Classic. Small game, small space??? Lol… Basically, the only reason this is happening right now is due to poor organization. That coming from a huge company like Blizz who has launch dates at least once every 2 years? Very, very sad.
That being said, I hopped onto a low pop server even though I had made my characters on the available ones during name claim simply because I wasn’t going to be wasting my time in 7 hour queues. I can hop on and off as I please with no queues, but that comes with the fact that I don’t get to play with my guild.
This isn’t a reliable metric. I could have created 1 character, or 10 characters, or 17 characters across multiple realms.