Every server full with 10+ hours queue times

Imagine thinking people are going to flock to some boomer skinnerbox and stay there.

>Newman: How quickly will be you be dropping the number of layers, do you think?

>Hazzikostas: We actually expect fairly aggressively to reduce the number of layers that are running, even after the first couple of days.

>Once the populations spread out around the world and people aren't all in those handfuls of starting zones, we'll be able to have even half as many layers as we did initially, with the goal just a few weeks into launch, as we go to phase two, of having all layers stable and having a single layer for each realm as the end state.

very smart just dropping layers day by day, that's probably why the queues are worse today than on launch

retarded fucking developer, ADD MORE OF THEM - IT'S A 15 YEAR OLD GAME

Ha, Ha, Ha! Blizzard literally has multiple servers just sitting around. They had to reduce WoW servers due to several servers being so dead that they could be incorporated into others.

When you have hundreds of thousands of people paying 15$ to queue for 10 hours so they can play your game, I can imagine that they actually want to play the game

>Implying
You don't have their data. You don't know if player numbers are increasing.

The layering system operates as a network-wide ecosystem. It's built to handle the eventual demand, not the extremely temporary, retarded hypefaggot demand.

It's not about what Blizzard wants. it's about setting realistic expectations. Half the reason modern WoW sucks so bad is because the player base is spread out over a thousand dead servers.

It's not 2004 anymore. It is litterally just a config file and script to set up a server.

I'm fucking done

>You don't know if player numbers are increasing.

queues are longer than at launch, the few new servers they added are already full and have the same queues

>entire list of full servers after being told 'you think you want it but you don't' for years
Shit nigger we're not cocky ENOUGH

>Buying and setting up new servers is exspensive and hard

Can you tell me how a bunc of retarded slavs with self-taught programming skills could setup extra servers within 12 hours?

>haha yes our strategy is to hope people quit
>but sir wouldn't you want to entice new players to become engaged and dedicated to your product
>CHECK OUT OUR NEW STORE MOUNT

>no goyim! buy BfA and the other soulless crap we're shoving down your throat!
I like the consumer base is so overwhelming against their aim that it's gonna force their hand and change their product strategy.
Now that the news it out, investors/analysts will be on there ass over this.

they think they do, but they don't.

>'you think you do, but you don't'
>releases game anyway
>'you think you queue, but you don't'
>don't do anything

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this

there's no fucking logic

there are more servers AND longer queues, they have to be fucking with the layering or capping the severs differently

>So far they have, before launch they had to open more servers, the day of the launch they opened even more servers today they opened even more and servers that were previously without queue are now full, the numbers keep increasing by the day.

server only just opened and its already full
cant i just play video games when i get home from work
for fucks sake

blizzard are absolute incompetent clowns

blizzard is shit

Well, that wouldn't be wrong.
100 landwhales being paypigs can make 10x the money all the nostalgic boomers/baited zoomers can from classic subs.

open more servers you complete cunts

so let me get this straight

their business strategy is to hope the tourists STOP playing and PAYING FOR their game.
what the FUCK am i reading

They cut layers every day, hence the longer queues.
Now they're deploying a hotfix to increase max players per layer.
The number of players cannot be measured by queue length.

I made a new account on some joke RP server with low population yesterday because I couldn't play on my real server

Now I even have 10 hours queues on this joke server

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Give it a few weeks.

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No there's logic; it's called "we gotta make sure this fails".
The last thing they want is for Wall Street to figure out that their customers prefer this to the new schlock the shovel out. Projects will get cut. Heads will roll.

>They just WANT it to fail!
>That's why they're spending asstons of marketing money hyping it!
your IQ never seems to stop falling, Yea Forums

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So the plan is to make your game so badly, that you will force the majority to stop playing, in order that a small minority can actually play the game?

>...and everyone will go right back to lootboxes

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damn, so my subscription fee is worthless huh?

Refer to

When did WoW peak, content wise?

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twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/1166781508721549313

ITS HAPPENING

>every server with queue times
I rolled on Bloodsail Buccaneers and don't regret it at all. No queues whatsoever.

80% will quit within the month leaving them with empty servers

Compared to the fuckshits buying winged dragons, you're nothing.

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Seems like it
Cash shop inbound boyos
Yup. Welcome home

So is blizzard to fucking cheap to add more servers or are they actually hoping classic fails so they can push BFA : Microtransaction edition harder?

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Why would they do anything?
Seriously, they got the money already and "fixing" this won't make them more money.
These queues are more or less meaningless to the people who are gonna play after the first month.

>are they actually hoping classic fails so they can push BFA : Microtransaction edition harder?
Yup. Because if it doesn’t that means they have to accept their current game is shit. So by strangling it like this they admit nothing

Classic - TBC - WoTLK until Ulduar

They genuinely want classic to fail. They want to prove that people don't actually like it.

anyone wanna buy me a one month subscription? i'm poor and i've been waiting to play for months :(

You’ll be waiting even longer than that fren

>they're spending so much money on marketing that they're posting on twitter
wow did the marketing budget get upsized?

So you can stare at a +600 minute long wait screen?

FUCK THIS IS TRUE LADS

my queue just dropped 2k players in 5 minutes

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that tweet is for a studio-commissioned video
in addition to a press junket
in addition to a twitch takeover
in addition to website ads on every major media site
Please argue those are cheap so I can laugh at you.

based

The ads aren’t cheap but Blizzard sure is.

>...and here's why that's a good thing.
Thank you Kotaku journalist for you insightful prediction.

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i'm EU and the queue times here are only a couple hours apparently... i just wanna play ;-;

>studio-commissioned video
how much do you think this costs?
>boilerplate advertising otherwise
is classic not the only product blizzard has a reason to advertise right now? Do you really think they're working with a higher budget than any other quarter?

>only a couple hours
Your time is seriously better spent doing something else. Just wait a month like everyone else that has an IQ above room temperature

Here's a pity (You)

im in EU and the servers where my friends are is +6 hours of wait

I asked you questions that you pretended you were capable of answering earlier.

I'm on Mograine which was just a medium realm and now look at it LITERALLY almost every server is full this is insane

I've been queuing forever
Fuck this

I'm EU and I have been queuing since 12.45 pm, still have 2.5k people in front of me

That's what Blizzard thinks of you and your time.

Thanks for the $15, paypig

you have 2 choices:
1) Play in the morning and DO NOT LOG OUT
2) If you're a wageslave call somebody at home and tell them to have you queue up like 6 hours before you get home

This happens to literally every single MMO launch. Most companies add dozens of extra servers because of the demand, but then in 1-3 months, about half the players have quit and 90% of servers are empty. Almost every non-Korean MMO released since WoW did this, and almost every single one of them had this problem. Its better to have server queues for the first week and all realms have a decent population than to make 30+ extra servers, and all but 5 or 6 be dead in a month with the few players on there unable to do end game content

Worst part is this fucking estimated timer. Fucking estimated time for my queue is 4 minutes for the past fucking 7 hours

Here’s a third choice:
Wait a fucking month

you're implying they won't be quitting in a month tops anyways.

they don't have to make new servers, just expand the current servers to be able to have more layers

>More layers
I know it’s only the first couple days after release, but those things are surely here to stay

>we think they will quit so we will make them quit even faster

They want you to quit classic and play retail. That cannot be simplified anymore

>every server full with 10+ hours queue times
>do nothing and hope people just try retail
worked for me

Layers don't fix the issue of server congestion. Only zone congestion. Bandwidth is still a concern that's gated by no. of players allowed on a server.
They hope the hotfix will resolve the problem at the risk of tanking server bandwidth until all the tourists consume product them get hyped for next product.

fuck you blizzard

>user can you bring me some good please while you wait for the queue?

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kys

you kys yourself fag

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Not really, because this is what they're trying to do now. In stead of releasing new servers, just add more layers to increase server capacity

us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/maximum-realm-capacity-increased-august-28/275248

yikes

>just join a low pop server bruh

>am at 1.7k in queue
>'fuck it, I'll just reroll on a new server'
>leave queue and check list
>every server is full
>go back to old server
>15k people before me in queue

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

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They just increased the server caps about 30 minutes ago classic.wowhead.com/news=294779/maximum-wow-classic-realm-capacity-increase

it sucks but i have nothing else to do anyway, i might as well just sit in queue. seriously who do i have to show my boobs to to get a subscription

I'm fucking seething

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I honestly don't mind waiting in queue, what i do mind was the terrible lag last night from the servers being work horsed to death. It was unplayable on kromkrush.

keked, thanks for the 15$ bruh

>Come back from College
>40-80 mins queue
>Do some of my homework while waiting
>Get most of it done
I'm ok with it

I've collectively been in queue for 20 hours since launch. This is not ok.

I have not been in a queue longer than 80 mins.
That's why people warned you about server choices.

Even the owest pop servers are at least a 3 hour wait. Honestly it's not worth trying to log in between 12:00pm and 1:00am, everything after 1 in the morning and before 12 in the afternoon is smooth sailing though. Fuck bugmen they ruin everything.

You can always try Hydraxian Waterlords no queue there :^)

server choices? all the fucking servers are full

FUCK IT BROS, 9 AND A HALF HOURS QUEUE AND IM IN

FUCK YOU ALL IM IN WESTFALL

>600th in queue
I'll see you soon brother

Ulduar for difficulty design
First tier of Cataclysm for mechanical design

I unironically believe that this is the case.
The higher up cunts who didn't want to bring vanilla back for years are praying for this to fail, just so they can save face and say "See, we told you that you didn't want it. Now go and play the new shit and buy some mounts"
I think the low amount of servers is a symptom of this.
If they really wanted this to succeed, they'd open a fuckton of servers and then later on offer free server transfers as the population starts tapering off.

>offer free server transfers as the population starts tapering off.
O I am laffin

Yes, the word free shouldn't be used in any context when talking about Blizzard.

Engineered scarcity.

Except there's no longterm to this game. Nostalgic cunts will get there fill and then it's done. One month is all it will take.

I had to reroll away from Mograine as it became another megaserver.

>get to hogger area
>need to kill gnolls for armbands
>not one in sight
>abysmal spawn rate AND drop rate
>gorillion fags camping every possible spawn point
>all while spouting "HOME XD" memes
>"LFG gnolls" for a while
>no response
epic gamer moment, lads

in what world do you need to do that quest instead of moving on?

>just skip the content bro :)
epic indeed

it's one quest on the margin of that zone, right by the bridge to the appropriately leveled, next zone. You deserve whatever inconvenience you choose to put yourself through.

u mean bfa?
they're shit at predicting so nobody cares.

Lets see how it pans out

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nice retail players

if this is what you think of blizzard, why would you even give them money for a 15-year-old game? this is what i don't get. classictards are (rightfully) bitching about blizzard, but still subscribing to their trash product anyway.

Is this what they meant by when they always said 'Theme Park MMO'? You just sit in a long line for hours to log in just to sit in a long line for hours just to do a quest and repeat the process over and over again?

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>wait in queue for 2 hours
>play 40 minutes with insufferable lag
>dc
>server dead
im done dude
fuck blizzard

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The number of quests you COULD wait in line for (or just skip because they give almost no experience and zero notable loot at such an early level) add up to less than 5, less than 10 if you count every race's. But you knew that already didn't you Mr. Shitposter?

have you ever met a boomer who always complains about service at restaurants but keeps going to the same handful over and over again?

only like 2 days too fucking late

>play classic and have fun
>played on nostalrius so i cant be suprised by shitposter
>suddenly Yea Forums is full of people triggered as fuck because i enjoy the game

lmao@you

Just like when you go to the DMV. Sitting among all those people in line, you can't help but marvel at the sense of community you are all sharing and partaking in.

>implying you have to wait at the DMV anymore
when was the last time you actually went to one and what was it for?

>roll on a no-streamer server for people with at least 100 IQ
>work from 6 to 2:30
>get home at 3 and log in with no queue
>I get to play on a comfy server
>Yea Forums gets to be mad that I play video games
HOME

>Just like when you go to the DMV.
Paying $15 a month to spend countless hours waiting in line at the DMV. There's something wrong with your brains. Holy shit.

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imagine being cucked this hard where you choose to sit in line

Roll high pop server with friends
>600min Queue
>No thanks
>Roll low pop server
>Log on today 5 hour Queue times and full now
Nope, fuck this

holy fuck i just got in no queue

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>Buying and setting up new servers is exspensive and hard
Back when wow first launched, sure.

In $currentYear there's no excuse. It's super easy to spin up new servers.

>lightning strikes just like in those youtube videos
>shit my pants because of the bang
>power cuts out
>queue for 12+ hours

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small indie company

>shit my pants because of the bang
>drinking so much of this crap that you literally shit your pants

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>Buying and setting up new servers is exspensive and hard
It costs almost nothing and it's not hard at all. Ifa 12 year old can start a minecraft server then a multi million dollar company can set up some for a 15 year old MMO.

>My queue is going up instead of down
You what now?

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>Waiting hours to join a game to wait more hours in lines to kill a monster
The absolute state of Yea Forums

some streamers and their whitelisted groupies bumped you back

Player base over the past decade hasn't dropped off that much, right?

No, you fucking retard. They know that people will stop playing the game, and they don't want to have to go through the hassle of merging servers when the population inevitably drops to 1/10 of what it is now.

They hardly announced that they had plans to cripple the launch by restricting the number of servers. In fact they said they had servers ready to go up at a moments notice yet we keep having 130 000 people in the queues. They're trying to make it fail since it doesn't have a cash shop.

Better to have congestion at launch than ghost servers few months forward.

People are leaving the server at a slower rate meaning less people in the queues get it.

>They're trying to make it fail since it doesn't have a cash shop.
you do realize they're just going to add a cash shop once the hype dies down, right? activision just did the same thing to black ops 4 and crash team racing. that's their new shtick, sneaking in microtransactions when people aren't paying attention.

>he isn't aoe grinding SM at 30+ while browsing Yea Forums and watching popular shows from 2005

What are you even doing

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>You aren't bothering me! I'll check it soon enough

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Working :(

Virtually every launch ever

>Watching old anime and fishing
I thought comfort like this was lost forever
almost to best girls arc

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Management does not give a single shit about what bing bing wahoo brings in the money