Fellow Azerothians, I bring grim news from the front lines and hope to find solutions through the collective wisdom of this community.
TL;DR:
- After the shutdown of the Mainland China server, players migrated en masse to the Taiwan-HongKong-Macau servers.
- Scripted bots also migrated to the Taiwan-HongKong-Macau servers alongside the players.
- Within less than a month of HC’s start, the server is already overwhelmed by bots. The queue times have reached upwards of 4 hours nightly. Yet, Blizzard has taken no constructive action. (I come home from work at 8 pm, and can only get in by midnight. Log in just to say hi and goodbye to friends? What?)
- Players, myself included, are now discussing the feasibility of moving to US servers.
Currently, we’re in the fourth phase. If this phase concludes, the foreseeable future may bring about Phase 5 and Phase 6:
- Scripted bots follow players to migrate to US servers.
- The US servers begin to queue until they’re overloaded.
If Blizzard remains indifferent to the issues of the Taiwan server, what reason do we have to believe they’ll effectively manage other server problems? There’s a high chance that the US servers could also fall victim to scripted bots.
Avoiding Phases 5 and 6 is simple:
All Blizzard needs to do is ensure that players on the Taiwan server can log in normally, thereby preventing them from migrating to the US servers and ensuring Phases 5 and 6 never occur.
How can they ensure normal login for Taiwan server players?
The answer is straightforward:
- Conduct a large-scale purge of scripted bots immediately.
- Expand. Add more servers or increase layer counts. Any measure that can accommodate more online players should work.
However, Blizzard Taiwan seems inactive. Do they believe these solutions won’t work? Does anyone have better suggestions?
Starting the queue remotely isn’t an ideal solution because any disconnection means no gameplay for the entire evening. HC appears to lack a disconnection protection mechanism, or maybe the protection duration is too short?
Fellow Azerothians, as I bring these disturbing updates, I also seek your assistance. We’ve tried various channels like reporting and appealing, but Blizzard Taiwan remains unresponsive. Many of us have received numerous thank-you notes from Blizzard for reporting bots. But you know what? There are more and more bots out in the wild, and the login queue time is increasing.
Fellow Azerothians, we hope to find a solution through collective wisdom. Migrating is our last choice, and we hope it doesn’t come to that.
We truly appreciate any brainstorming and insights you can provide.
(Note: Blizzard prohibits petition posts on the forum, so we’re not here to petition. We’re here for discussion and to seek collective wisdom.)