People care way too much about timezones. I live in DC and have played in PST servers several times in my wow career. I’ve always found EST players and guilds, or at least guilds that had raid times that worked for an EST schedule. Most of the US is EST and CST, timezone issues will rarely ever be an issue. The ping also doesn’t matter at all.
the streamer server will be much worse i remember when back then soda and swifty crashed the servers they were on and swifty even got banned for it.
and all the streamers want to roll on one server?ill take herod…lmao.
the streamer server is going to be down 80% of the time…lol.
Here’s the thing, remove the desire for a specific reserved name and folks are just going to wait it out, roll the rest of their characters on other servers and leave their original ones on the full ones.
There is zero upside to giving up names on herod or other fulls.
Now if they temporarily opened a server for transfers from herod, then open it up to everyone after a day or two, that would solve the issue completely. But I am not holding my breath that blizzard will do anything beyond continuing to blame the players for what blizzard caused by lack of foresight.
Many players took off work for day one, many players paid for a monthly sub 2 weeks which were not able to be used for classic. Now blizzard is asking those people to move and give up the names they paid $7.50 for or took a day off to reserve? Nice optics.
Players have 47 more character slots. Do not expect many to voluntarily give up their reserved names.
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In a way it shows the majority of classic players wanted to avoid streamers. Settles that little mystery.
Everyone knew blizz released too few servers for launch. The plan for the future drop off only helps the future and makes the present suffer que times.
My guild made a mini event when we reserved names on herod, a few even took off work to be there. We all got our names. Blizz should have added more server options from the start.
This is an absurd assertion, only the most entitled of brats would even attempt to paint this scenario in this manner.
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It depends if they are playing with friends or guilds. Some of the guild will get in and when others are complaining they cant get in it will divide the guild. If you are going alone planning to make friends on whatever world you call home then changing now is an option. Blizzard didnt give people enough time to coordinate stalaag as a group so ya this is not good no matter how it plays out.
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Please do not use big words like “entitled” without actually knowing that the word means. Many literally invested money, time and sacrificed PT at work to reserve names. In what possible universe does the word “entitled” have relevance or apply to those facts?
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Just so everyone is clear. Blizzard is not as concerned about launch Herod vs phase 2 Herod. Layering will help with launch and while it might still have long queue times its when they turn off layering right b4 phase 2 where things will get real. The queue times post layering would probably be around 5-10 times the wait (assuming no one quit which is unrealistic). What that means though is we would need to reduce the population by 80-90% just to keep the queue times the same as launch which will still be high. This is what Blizzard is trying to warn people about… not so much launch.
There post clearly indicates excessive queue times ON LAUNCH for Herod. Excessive is not 10 minutes.
Seems like a lot of people are over exaggerating the population of Brazilians and South Americans on Thalnos too, it’s likely to hardly be over 20% of the playerbase and even then a majority of them will likely know how to speak some English regardless. But, hey, if that means no several hour queues just to play the game then I’m all for it.
Here’s the thing that concerns me. If blizzard cannot even predict how many servers to have open upon name res day, despite the warnings from players about how popular it will be, how can we believe that they have even a remote handle on the % of players that will leave before phase 2?
I would love to think they have an actual plan. However if they cannot even navigate name res day without predicting the impact avoiding streamers, weak server names, too few servers overall 2weeks prior to release, how are we to have confidence that release day onward will be anything but a biblical scale cluster?
Your “plan” cannot consist simply of blurting out “layers”, and decree that layers will be removed by phase 2, without actually making an effort to actively herd players where you want them. You do not open a handful of servers with select ones being purposefully and quite vocally shunned, leave no cap mechanism on them, continually adjusting the “algorithm” after the fact, and then do a hail mary sudden server opening 2 days later.
As I wrote above, many are literally invested in the names they got on day 1, and blizzard needs to do more than to blame the players.
Yep and right now I bet streamers are laughing their butts off. Cant say I blame them.
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Mark my words.
The number of players we have seen reserve names is a FRACTION of those who will SUB come LAUNCH.
I can tell you, Blizzard has no idea what’s coming.
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This part right here explains what will happen when layering goes away and why they will not increase the cap anymore for launch. It appears as if things stay how they are it will be very unstable come p2.
They are very concerned about launch Herod. That post you just linked explains it.
Entitled - believing oneself to be deserving of privilege or special treatment.
Blizzard is not asking you to lose anything. You (the proverbial) chose to take time off. The fact that you don’t realize you are being an entitled brat just makes it more humorous.
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Please just stop. It is abundantly clear you are just picking words out of a dictionary to appear smart, and you are failing utterly.
You only need to fight the queue once, after that never log off. Easy
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I have to agree.Anyone who sacrificed money by taking time off work for a video game has only themselves to blame. Entitled fits perfectly to such peopke.
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You were proven wrong. Move on man it happens, this is not personal. Learn from it and get better.
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