I’m going to be as blunt as I can in regards to the recent queue issues:
This is completely unacceptable.
But what really astonishes me are all of the players who are parroting the same tired lines. “Blizzard gave you free transfers to select realms” or “Maybe you shouldn’t have rolled on a high pop server” are not good counterpoints to the issues people are having with logging into the game.
You are being intentionally obtuse, and in some cases, flat out contrarian to the current issue. It’s not just one or two “mega severs” that are seeing these unrealistically long queues. It’s a lot of servers, and it’s actually only worsened with each passing day. This current mess was Blizzard’s doing, not the player’s. But I suspect you already know this and just want to be obnoxious.
Blizzard could be layering realms more. We’ve seen them do it before. They could update their architecture to not be from the Victorian era. They are actively choosing to not communicate on this issue (no, their free transfer was not a well thought out solution for a myriad of reasons), and you are actively choosing to defend this.
I would wager 90% of the people complaining about the queues don’t care if we experience an hour or two long queue here and there on new content releases or peak play times. THAT is the part you agree to when going to a higher pop server.
I implore you to think about the current issue that so many are experiencing. You’re not being productive by being difficult. At the end of the day, we all just want to play the game.
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Im on queue right now to play around 6pm…but i tell my wife im hanging with her rather than play. Taking advantage of this
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i agree but the bad thing is, there is no guarantee these dead servers people are xferring to will last… at all. especially on alliance which is what i play. my options at this point are either
A: accept q’s and cry for another 2-3 months
B: switch to sulfuras and pray to the blizzard and azerothian gods that alliance makes a decent comeback and i can enjoy the game
in my eyes. it a lose lose situation. not very thrilled
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in b4 “breh you have a free transfer to old blanchy”
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No, being obtuse is refusing to accept any kind of alternative to your “solution”.
We accepted the options we were given. I re-rolled fresh and started from scratch. I wanted to play the game, so I made it so I could play the game
They gave you 2 options. You refuse to accept either of them. At this point, it’s your own fault for choosing to sit in a queue.
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Hell even if one is understanding of a queue these are terrible arguments.
I rolled on Grobbulus on day 1. It’s not my fault a bunch of people transferred here and snowballed it into a megaserver because it was one of the only PvP servers with any actual world PvP.
and now it’s also the ONLY RP-PvP server. I quite literally do not have another server to transfer to of the same type even if I DID want to transfer off.
The sad part is that we knew this was coming. It happened back in the original game even if they didn’t have megaservers, and dead servers were a thing. These were issues we all knew that Classic would eventually have to deal with.
and while they’re probably not issues that could have been 100% solved, it feels a lot like Blizzard just didn’t make ANY plan to deal with it.
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I sincerely feel bad for you for accepting this as an option. Hoping your new realm is healthy in a few months. Not sarcasm.
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I don’t understand why you people think there won’t be a queue when you jam yourselves onto the same server.
Like what did you expect? This isn’t an exclusive issue to WoW.
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Smart. That is a good way to take advantage of it!
Any game where you’re paying a monthly fee to play should have NO servers with a que time, especially if the game is nearly 20 years old.
I don’t mind maybe waiting an hour or two if the server is omega huge, but Blizzard can definitely fix these que times and just aren’t.
Basically paying Blizzard to sit in ques lol
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This is a result of Blizzard’s poor handling of the game and servers overall. Queues are fine, 6 hour queues are not. Blizzard has the tech to alleviate queues, they’ve done so in the past.
I expected Blizzard to do the same thing they did for TBC launch. Other games respect their players’ time and money more, and do something.
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I bet you they will make it better on Tuesday’s maintenance. Why waste time and resources when you can do it tuesday when its scheduled
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Hopefully, but that’s being quite optimistic cause now the problem is, the players that accepted the free transfers just screwed themselves over.
Play on a different server. Problem fixed. There’s ques because you want to be on a big server. You’re the problem.
Imagine putting 50k people in a battle royal… You wouldn’t be able to move. It’s the same thing.
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Bilzzard could’ve easily prevented this by capping populations then?
If I’m hosting a “battle royal” and I allow 50k participants, would you blame me or the participants?
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Blame the person that thinks they won’t lag.
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At this point I’m convinced that you’re trolling. There’s no other reasonable explanation for you to double down on this lol.
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i rolled on bene in the beginning of classic. my 1st toon. is it still my fault i “jamed” myself into these ques? why should i have to leave my home server bc blizzard was greedy for the transfer money. Defending the poor decision making process of blizzard doesn’t help improve the game play for the players. our complaints is what pushes them to make better decisions. your defense helps them do nothing
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