I like this post, you should definitely follow your own advice. If others aren’t being civil, I would suggest not engaging, as it won’t end up being a productive discussion to come to a solution.
I actually think that you’re the one saying “Blizzards solution is the only solution” and that’s the part I take issue with. Regardless of how others have responded in this thread, your need to tell people Blizzard is right and they are wrong really adds nothing of value to any discussion about the topic.
So what brought us to that point? How long have you suffered those queues vs the time you haven’t? We are seeing a spike now for a multitude of reasons, and none of them date back to you having a 6k every single day since day one.
Oh but a company made of those individuals you claim have no such power can? It’s the same thing with Covid. Do you think all those businesses foresaw the need for the supplies people panic bought? Are those businesses at fault for the decisions the consumer made?
Nickole, if you work for Blizzard. Get your butt on your work computer and try working at this issue that has tens of thousands of players annoyed. 10k players = $150,000. We pay your paycheck so do us a favor and earn it.
wow really… they didn’t know this was coming? This is a RE-RELEASE… its not magic. They had ample time to update their architecture and make sure the product they were offering paying customers was well maintained and able to adapt to the dynamic nature of said service.
Blizzard’s ineptitude and greed brought us to this point. Blizzard has been running this game since 2004. They know when a server needs more players and when it has way too many and have the tools to prevent servers from being THIS overpopulated well in advance to it happening, but they opted not to prevent it to get that sweet server transfer cash from dead or dying servers prior.
By what metric Blue did they have to “see this was coming” if I may ask? Do you have some market source I don’t? It’s part of the WoW subscription plan for the actual Retail server, there was no way, shape, or form to detect a massive influx like this. There was no sufficient data to see anything like this coming unless you can share something with me I haven’t seen.
I went from Mankrik to Benediction. Sadly Mankrik was dead benediction has one of the highest pop of alliance so I went there… que time was nothing as soon as they did the pre patch 226-300min wait time… i wanted to play on a realm where i can run dungeons and lvl in a group… this is a crap show.
To Sulfuras? where 73% are horde players… Its not an option for alliance, lastnight SW was almost empty at 8pm st!!!
Blanchy its almost empty too plus its not pvp.