TIme Limit for Demo posted

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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11/01/2018 08:25 AMPosted by Ythisens
When the World of Warcraft: Classic demo becomes available to play at home on Friday, November 2, we will ensure maximum availability to players at home by initially establishing session limits.

When the demo goes live, we’ll use a playtime time limit and a cooldown (that starts when you first log in) to help as many people as possible play the Classic demo as much as possible. We’ll start with a playtime limit of a cumulative 60 minutes and a cooldown of 90 minutes. Here are some examples of how that might work:

• If you play for 30 minutes and then log off for 60 minutes, when you come back you’ll have a fresh 60 minutes.
• If you play for 60 minutes, you’ll be disconnected and then have to wait 30 minutes before you can play again.
• If you play for 20 minutes, log off for 20 minutes, then play 40 more minutes, you’ll be logged off and wait 10 more minutes.

Our goal is to lift session limits as quickly as we feasibly can after the demo goes live. We will then only reinstate session limits if unexpectedly high demand returns.

We will update this post with further information on this, as necessary.

Thank you!


https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20769628564?page=1
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Seems fair and reasonable tbh.
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Seems reasonable
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Fair Enough.
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I'm Quitting and posting in a thread where the word FAIR was used in a positive way.

Also, thanks for posting this info, Stud!!
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That’s actually better than I imagined! Was thinking we would have a multiple hour cool down
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Not as bad as I thought it would be. And it looks like they're hopeful to get rid of the limits entirely at some point.

I'm ok with this.
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/does the Snoopy dance
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Hey, that's actually a pretty good way to handle it.
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Sooo...Warsong Gultch?
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Huh.. i figured we would have a few hours to play. You can’t get cery far in vanilla with an hour. But yall said yall will try to lift it. I’ll take what i can get
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Zones might actually be questable
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You'd think they would post classic news in the classic forum. But oh well
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At least you get to play it. I want to but didn’t want to fork over 60 dollars for a demo.
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wonder why they didnt they post that in classic discussions ?
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Seems like I will get to play 0 minutes of this demo, I cant get it to install at all. The window to Start Install pops up, but the loading icon just spin and spins, and spins ... ><
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Sounds painful for whoever forked over the $50. Play for an hour and then rub your nose for 30 mins before you can play again.

And you guys think, “That’s Great, Man!”

Oh well, another footnote in the Blizzard fanboi page.
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If I get to play an hour and then only have to take a 30 min break then that isn't too bad for my money.
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11/01/2018 01:13 PMPosted by Doxima
Sounds painful for whoever forked over the $50. Play for an hour and then rub your nose for 30 mins before you can play again.

And you guys think, “That’s Great, Man!”

Oh well, another footnote in the Blizzard fanboi page.


I can spend my time on and off the game watching BlizzCon panels, pretty much the main reason why I get a ticket.
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That’s actually more time that I was expecting. 60/90 works great actually. When you take a break, you will have enough time to go out to a nice restaurant as long as you make reservations (in most cities). Have you tried going to Walmart lately, even for something small like Italian Ice? It will take you 90 minutes before you get back and that is if the Walmart is less than 3 miles away. Just about everything takes about 90 minutes today, even putting the kids in bed in some cases (when they don’t want to sleep).

But if this 60 on/30 off, that’s a little more tenuous for getting other things done. But the point is, for some people, it will almost be like they are playing nonstop.

Granted, I wish I could pull a marathon playing the WoW Demo, but this is more than fair.