They always use layering. Not just during major content patches as was originally planned. So there’s really no such thing as an event that qualifies or not. Layering is used regardless.
If you’re sitting in a queue, then the server is probably already layered. So the bandaid solution is already in play. In this case, it just seems like they’ve capped the number of layers a realm can have, which is a good thing. Literally, the only upside to allowing the server capacity to balloon to ridiculous heights is that the selfish people who play on those realms don’t have to reap the discomfort that they sow.
Are you saying that you’re in a queue, but your server hasn’t spun up additional layers?
I can’t tell if you actually attempted to answer me or if you just dodged the question.
So your explanation of layering is just “adding dividers to a room”? There’s nothing else to it? No explanation of what causes additional layers to spin up?
I LITERALLY CAN NOT GET INTO THE SERVER I PAID TO GET INTO BECAUSE BLIZZARD DID NOTHING ABOUT THE DOGPILING TO THE SERVER I WAS ON.
Just shut up already. Server transferring again makes sense for people who only log on and basically do questing and what not. But it makes no sense for a guild that has 40 players WHO ALREADY PAID to transfer once and do not want to transfer to a server that is going to be dead and you can not recruit new members.
Guess you made a mistake to be one of the many thousands who dogpiled into Benediction, huh? You can either keep throwing tantrums on the forums about it like a Karen, or you can make better decisions in the future. Choose your choice.
While not entirely correct as if we look at the current que times totalled across all waiting realms we have at the least 1.8 mill people. No server to date can handle that.
Guys I don’t know what’s so hard to grasp here. Blizz could have invested in the server infrastructure to prevent people from not being able to play the game they pay for and they didn’t. It’s things like this that drive players away from the game.
They offer free transfers to smaller servers, but with no LFG its going to be harder to get groups than a larger server. Not everyone can spend an hour looking for a healer or tank, so i can see the incentive of not leaving a bigger server.
Ok, and how should they have invested in their server infrastructure? Ion has said they have the best servers out there and that if you know of better ones, you should send them to him. So please, share your better server with us.
I don’t recall these absurd wait times, and these are way better servers and they should have more experience. It was also Blizzard’s decision to up the cap and rely on layering.
We had layering opened up with a huge number for TBC launch, why not now?
What server infrastructure? What server could they use that would fix the problem?
There were a lot of realms. And there were also queues even then.
It means that you shouldn’t play on the most grotesquely overpopulated WoW server in the cataloged universe if sitting in queues sends you flying into a ape-like rage.