Yup, and id wager in classic – where id argue HUGE swaths of people returned specifically to play with old friends, old guilds, existing server communities, where those relationships are so integral to your experience in the game, ‘just reroll’ becomes an even tougher pill to swallow. i doubt id have even played classic if my vanilla guild didnt come back together. the experience i had with them is an experience i had been unsuccessfully trying to replicate for almost a decade with other groups.
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Driving customers away the hard core Classic player will stay. They will stay forever. The customers are not stopping their subscription. They are and will play BfA. Some players will cancel not because they can not play. Wait until your server is very low due to people not playing. Remember only people that will be keeping one or two severs live is the hard core players. Hope your server is not one Blizzard shuts down.
blizzard never shuts a server down, they ‘link’ them. though the more recent approach seems to just be ignoring them as they slowly languish into irrelevancy.
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I have noticed that it seems to be the what I will call the “retail troll” which does not understand what a community or real friends are. The “its your own fault you want to play with your friends” crowd probably don’t have any friends themselves and just “LFR’s” in stormwind all day long.
Just because you do not care about community, friends, guilds, or people in general does not mean that we do not as well. This is actually the primary reason for which MANY people are playing classic. It is not so easily thrown aside.
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which is why you need to talk with your guild and move everyone, not just a couple. Now if you are unwilling to do so then you will need to live with the queues and hope that other guilds figure out that life is better when you can log into your chosen server.
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Yeah I’ve seen threads about this before, where people AND their friends/guild had already rolled on a different server no less than THREE times to avoid queues and STILL had high pop issues. 100% this is all on Blizzard for telling everyone to “reserve their name” then not making new servers fast enough when the first servers made suddenly became full, and THEN not giving enough notice to everyone when new servers finally DID open up, making it impossible for large groups to switch servers, and with no chance or guarantee on keeping their names. It’s just been one $hitshow after another from day 1
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If you could coordinate them to all roll on your server, you can coordinate them to switch. It’s poor guild management to not have them move earlier.
Now they’re invested in their characters and you’ll have to deal with your guild masters mistake.
-insert jennifer lawrence okay sure gif here-
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For less than a quarter of all available servers
Blizzard told you there would be queues. Blizzard told you to pick a low or medium pop server
Blizzard gave everyone ample opportunity to reroll
Nobody cares that you already “created characters, guilds, and communities”. The lifespan of this version of the game will be measured in months, hopefully years. The /played time invested in characters will be weeks, not days or hours. Your level 15 and professions on Herod or wherever are absolutely insignificant. If you’d been paying attention, anything you had accomplished through Tuesday could have been recreated in a long afternoon by Wednesday. Get over yourself.
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You know I’m right 
I’m Triggggeeerred 
Wow, who peed in your cheerios?
No one cares about community or guilds? Perhaps you don’t but a lot of people do. Sounds like you need to get over your self because you are the only one acting like a spoiled child.
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well, except a number of the high queue servers such as stalagg were rolled out post-name reservation.
blizzard BEGGED people to abandon their existing name reservations and reroll on stalagg to avoid queues. so folks did.
now stalagg has 9k queues at night.
at some point you have to recognize blizzard’s blunder, here.
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From the guy making a REEEEE thread about queues you should have known about a week before launch? Your guild wasn’t paying attention if they didn’t know they were going to have a queue on whatever server you chose.
TL:DR: OP claims to know how to make money better than one of the biggest media entertainment companies listed on the NYSE.
Someone needs to hire this self proclaimed titan of industry ASAP lol.
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I can. And we moved twice and since have added some new folks to our group. Seems like a “you” problem.
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I totally called this 10 days before Classic launched.
Look here:
Btw Shocktastic is my classic avatar, but for some odd reason the forum won’t allow me to post links from one avatar on another 
so, millions of people will come back if a few hundred thousand don’t leave? What
Dude go roll on any sever other than Herod. I found a server on launch day for alliance toons and one for horde toons and I’ve only had a queue on day 2 during prime time, and it was ~350 and took 3 minutes.
Seriously. At this point just abandon Herod if you literally are unable to play. Stop complaining when other servers don’t have a queue.
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Stalagg was opened before launch.
Should’ve rerolled.
Let me see if I can give you a real world example of what is happening here and you tell me, once you finally understand, if you would react the same way:
You are buying a house in Boston. Your relatives and friends all live nearby. You sign a contract, you pay the money you owe and you expect the product you paid for.
A week before you are scheduled to move in your contractor tells you “Sorry man, the pluming, sewage, power, and water don’t work in this house that you wanted. I would recommend you moving to Las Vegas, because they should have running water there. Good luck”
Would you be okay with that? You were warned things wouldn’t work how you expected. Would you be alright moving to Las Vegas to get running water OR WOULD YOU EXPECT THE WATER TO WORK IN THE HOUSE YOU PAID FOR?
Yes I agree, rerolling character in a video game is just as hard as moving city irl. 100% agree.
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