I took a week off of work to level to 80, make some gold, and prep my character for raid release. All of that went extremely well, and I was extremely excited to PUMP them dps numbers tonight.
Now, playing on Faerlina, I recognize there will be a big queue tonight - as if we don’t have a 3+ hour queue every night. So I logged into queue remotely from work at 3pm. By 4:30, I checked to see how the queue was doing and I was met with a ‘You have been disconnected’ message. Panicking, I quickly log back in to be met with position #8700 & an estimated wait time of 350 minutes.
Blizzard, your classic wow team and entire organization are a bunch of …ing half-wit idiots that are completely incapable of decision making and ultimately running this game. I can’t believe you have a team dedicated to supporting this game, because it seems like you just turn the servers on and let it be. The fact that you let server and faction imbalances get this out of control is completely mind-boggling and your only solution to lock new character creation and restrict transfers was implemented 2 years too late - literally. Not to mention the several game breaking bugs that are not being addressed - cross faction battleground players can’t resurrect in Strand of the Ancients… This bug has been in the game since Launch on the 26th and you still haven’t fixed it??
I hope you all have a terrible night, just like I will be. I have been subscribed to this game since 2005 with 1 or more accounts every month since. I have not experienced this queue situation since 2007. 15 years later and you’re still incompetent.
I have been raiding with my guild for 9 years and we run 2 raid teams. Why would I take this terrible suggestion as a solution to a problem that was created by Blizzard’s incompetence? Blizzard needs to take accountability and enhance their servers to support the population THEY ALLOWED onto the server.
If you don’t want something to happen, remove the ability for it to happen. This is what a responsible operator does.
Blizzard saw the massive server imbalances as people started flocking to mega servers, but instead of getting involved and creating a solution, they kept collecting money from people who were paying to leave their dying servers. Throughout Vanilla classic, we saw multiple servers die, as players joined new communities. This has been occurring since day 1 and to this day, Blizzard’s only solution is: leave all of your friends behind so you can play on demand.
I wouldn’t be surprised if their next solution is a paid fast-pass to skip queues.
i don’t understand how someone can type a wall of offensive crap like this guy did and still be up… while i can say 3 little words, it’s removed, and i get silenced for days.
I’m just a person who was on a perfectly fine server that everyone screamed was “dead” and forced all the guildies to pay $100 each because the GM couldn’t find a GDKP for his 4th alt at 3am.
The server was completely fine. Now they are stuck in queues. F em. Their fault.
Back in vanilla my guild had the same problem (real vanilla like 2006 right) anyways we all decided to as a group switch servers and boom that was that. We did overdo it a bit now that Im just typing freely and went to a very low pop server and it was basically a 3rd world server, no one had any gold, couldnt find anything in the AH. Man vanilla good times am I right. What were we talking about?
Same boat. Working today didn’t really enable me to get in queue early enough. Weak-kneed weirdos can shill out for them if they want but this is absolutely a Blizzard created problem. I rolled here initially as my first pick during the classic pre-launch name selection. I did leave and come back but that was based on guild / community elements.
It’s good they’re FINALLY sacking up to lock megas, but they still don’t seem to be doing anything about faction balance, WG etc.
Classic has made me resent Blizzard and I wish it hadn’t. I realize it’s likely a funding issue and overarching leadership misallocating resources, not individual engineers and stuff… but it’s sad to see.