Some of you cant wait 10 15 minutes? Lol. The entitlement is unbelievable. This generation is going to make an … interesting community - full of loot reserved and tanks charging money because they don’t want to level an alt.
Lazy.
Wait so your saying because name reservation had que times that that is a sign of ill-preparedness by blizz? While I don’t think blizz is ready the que times are not a sign of that.
It’s a name reservation/character creation which means people will cycle in and out quickly enough that throwing lots of resources at having large concurrent logins for it doesn’t make sense. They said they were rolling out new hardware for classic so these last two weeks are likely them standing those servers/blades up and getting them configured so they were likely not up for character creation.
12 realms. Did you not see what Blizzard has done? They added a realm as needed. Launch will be no different. Realms fill, realms get added, catastrophe averted.
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You know nothing Jon Snow. You don’t know me. If I sounded entitled, I’m not in the least bit.
I’ve thanked Blizz for letting me into Beta and playing over the past weekend and had an absolute blast playing Classic Beta.
I’ve done my part and paid for an early name reservation b/c I’m excited to play classic wow.
Do you want a smooth launch?
Did you love Vanilla?
I do. I did.
I want Blizzard to do their best to put out a great product and I think there are areas they can improve.
Okay if you disagree with me on how that goes about.
Some of you cant wait 10 15 minutes?
I hate to burst any bubbles, but the queues on herod and whitemane at release are going to be MUCH longer than 10, 15 minutes without some kind of solution. Mark my words.
Blizzard has admitted as much, I’m not sure why people are still having trouble believing it.
Except Herod and Whitmane are overbooked. Problem is still here. Could get fixed, but the problem is still here.
And realms die. People need to be careful what they wish for.
10-15 min waits are fine by me.
But when blizz described the queues, they said something like extremely long queues, which to me, doesn’t fit into the 10-15 min time frame.
Well, at least you can say you are getting the vanilla launch experience. Queue times and all. Even players whining about it makes it more authentic.
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Thats a community problem and not a blizz problem… You solve it by rolling on a not overpoped server. There are what 2-3 other options. One of the benefits of the modern internet is that distances are less of a slowdown than they were in the past so the locations of the data centers are not as important as they once were.
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agree to disagree here. Should have had another eastern, non Brazilian/Streamer server, or Blizz should have added the other server sooner and Locked Herod.
I don’t have a stake in the queue times because my characters are on the RP and RPPvP realms. However, the Blizzard reaction here could easily be predicted by the sum of the various blue posts. People that are all “rah, rah, gotta play on the highest population pvp realm” are ramming themselves into serious queue times. You don’t even know what the server faction balance is. (No, the reddit click survey doesn’t count for meaningful numbers.)
I can handle 10-15 mins of queues and sometimes I like to live in fantasy worlds. It’s why we game isn’t it, to remove ourselves from the real world.
I do want a smooth launch but the likelihood of that happening is negligible. I am incredibly excited for Classic because, for me, it will be my first chance at seeing WoW from the beginning. I still play the game and enjoy many things about it, but Classic is more my speed. However, even though i never experienced it, i know that the launch of Vanilla was very rocky. Why should we expect that Classic’s launch would be any better? What is a realistic solution?
If Blizzard tells us player numbers or Horde/Alliance balance or what not, how does that enable us to help the launch go smoother? Blizzard is supposed to hire ad hoc employees from the forums who got this information to help them code servers better? Are players on PvP servers suddenly supposed to say, “Oh, you know, i think i will switch to PvE to make launch smoother?” If they add more servers, as many are &#^%$ing about, then eventually they run out of players when pops normalize, if they had fewer servers, then no one can log in and play. Blizzard, for all their faults, does know what they are doing with this launch. I do understand your point about better communication from them to the fans. That would be nice but the launch is what it is. And it seems like it will be darn close to the original Vanilla experience, “warts and all”.
yes and no…
Yes blizzard should of had more servers… lets not pretend though that we all don’t want to be on the highest pop realm possible just short of a queue though…
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Yeah, i am not sure what people really want concerning this. You reserved yourself on a high pop server and then expect no queues? Common sense isn’t common, apparently.
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lets be honest with ourselves, i think this is largely thanks to folks funneling into a select few servers on name reservation day to avoid the possibility of streamers or a large BR population, not so much a desire to be on ‘high pop’.
Now plans have been made, names reserved, and entire guilds have coordinated with hundreds of members to go to their server of choice, so simply moving to a newly opened server becomes a huge headache to coordinate.
Again, this is something that should have been handled pre-name reservation. The playerbase was very clear that there werent enough pvp servers, particularly EST.
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Not sure how you could view it as anything but a community issue…
It’s like going to a starbucks and seeing it’s packed but then choosing to wait in line for 30 minutes. Then saying it’s starbucks fault you had to wait in line when there is another much less busy one 2 blocks down the road.
When there are alternatives available and you choose to wait rather than take the alternative you have no-one else to blame but yourself.
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And your post is exactly why i have said in my 15 years of playing wow. Blizzard is damn if they do and damn if they dont.
If you are going to complain about lack of servers blizzard should have never listened and just said NO to classic. The game isnt out maybe they did the name creation to adjust before launch they already created new realms
Maybe instead of immediately complaining you should give them a chance or just unsub and move onto another game.
I think doing a name res day was forking brilliant.
It lets Blizz know about how many people will be trying to log in on the 27th.
They can fortify and layer their servers based on name population at the time.
But lets be honest…
If you want the REAL vanilla experience, the servers must crash and be unavailable for the first 3 days, followed by random crashes and boots for the following week.
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