Thousands left Benediction for the spillover servers. Thousands more quit because of ques.
Somehow prior to pre patch there were 25k+ players (parses) source ironforge.pro. April through now there were regularly 25-30k parses per week.
Week 1 of prepatch there were approx 18k parses where we saw the highest ques ever. Makes sense because people leveling. People were 70 in 2-4 days and were raiding and thus parsing. By the second and third week of pre patch the numbers went back to “normal” and the que disappeared. Last week we hit a peak of 32k parses which also makes sense because the content was so easy you could carry multiple green geared players through Sunwell.
Now the ques are at an all time high with last night hitting a record 13 hour que and 17k players. You seriously expect me to believe the ques are organic? I cannot believe it. How can we have these numbers without interferences? If the free transfers worked so well why are the ques so long?
Sulfuras, the spillover server, is full and has ques. Sulfuras is a underdog story, bravo with that. You’re telling me that not only did the mass exodus of players taking free xfers (server discord has records of many guilds leaving) did absolutely NOTHING to prevent launch ques?
Yep, it’s not Blizzard’s fault, it’s yours, they tried to warn you that their game was garbage, but you didn’t listen, there’s nothing they can do, except the bare minimum, get exposed when their transfer story doesn’t hold water, but thanks for the $15, we’ll put that into recarpeting our famously named conference rooms and still giving our C level executives awesome bonuses. Remember, you did this to yourself, Blizzard didn’t do anything wrong, they provided you with a game to play, it’s called Season of Mastery. You can go play the game, they never said which game it was, stupid customer, all your fault.
You can’t make everyone happy. These queue’s are only going to be a problem during patch releases/launch. Eventually when the hype dies down, no servers will have queues.
People don’t want to transfer off because they know that long term staying on a mega server provides more stability and assurance.
All my mains were on Sulfuras, in TBC, Sulfuras was pretty much a ghost town. Finding groups was impossible, forget about finding players for leveling. I paid $100 to transfer four characters from Sulfuras to Faerlina. I still have 4 other level 60’s that I wanted to transfer but am unable to due to transfer lock at the moment.
All of a sudden servers get consolidated and Blizzard offers free xfers from Benediction to Sulfuras. This makes the server somewhat playable. It’s nothing compared to Faerlina. During peak times sure, finding players is viable, otherwise forget it.
Now I’m faced with either waiting in hour queue’s, or taking a free/paid transfer to server of my choice. Eventually in a few months, I’ll be back to square one, on a server with not enough players to play with.
I believe that the majority of players who took the free transfer will end up paying to transfer back to the mega server once the queue’s die down again.
Well how about a 2.5 hour queue at 11am PST right after a maintenance that forced you to log off for an hour? Hope that lunch break, shower, nap, basic human life-living didn’t get you stuck in a queue on a Tuesday at Noon because you thought you could take an additional 30 minutes to an hour to enjoy your morning. Losers, lol, such dumb customers, nothing Blizzard can do, nothing to see here, thanks for the $15, enjoy taking vacation from your job to waste it in a queue timer, stupid customers, go check out Season of Mastery. We said you could play the game, we didn’t say which game, lol foolish person, Blizzard is infallible, how dare you even try.
How is this even a question? You should be asking why Blizzard didn’t invest in better server technology KNOWING these queues would be coming. It’s funny when people like you sit here and spit your vile Stockholm syndrome excuses at us who pay to play and cant.
Because there wasn’t anything to do for the majority of people in prepatch. Most of my guild didn’t log on apart from raid. A lot of people got their dk to 70 maybe farmed honor but then didn’t play until launch.
I agree it is unacceptable that you don’t understand the terms and conditions and expect a handout after making an absolutely horrible decision. Glad we could find common ground on that.
I mean if they locked servers from start you would complain some guildies got left out or yell your new friend can’t come play with you. The root of the problem, the cause of the problem, players dogpiling onto mega servers. You say things like they only put out limited servers as if to imply they were going to have ques regardless. But that’s again misleading. Plenty servers have/had no ques at all. You all like to try to shift the blame around. Why should blizzard have to play this back and forth with people like you guys. Why should they treat all the side affects of a problem you keep creating and you refuse to fix.
Tldr. Stop dogpiling onto servers. Problems solved.
As a paying customer I should have a right to complain why I can’t access the game I pay for to play with friends on certain servers. Sure, we can all move. But it’s my money and if I don’t get the services I like, I can complain.
What? Is this a joke? Blizzard had years to invest in flexible server technology. Why didn’t they? They have the data. They’ve been through this before. They funnel people to servers that will die, ( THIS HAS HAPPENED TWICE NOW ), then they pay to xfer back to a server where they can actually find groups and play the game in a timely manner.
Why are you people spewing your stockholm syndrome excuses for blizzard at us when Blizzard could have solved this? We pay to play, not to sit in a queue. They knew this would happen and could have invested in their game. They didnt. We are NOT to blame. They are.
Case in point. Lol shift that blame hard as you can. I literally have you a server that debunks everything you say. And you just disregard it because it doesn’t suit your agenda lol.
