World of Warcraft: Classic

Well this sounds fun. Way to go starting off with way too few servers and dumb fucking names on half of them. I don't ever remember not being able to get into a queue at all even at the height of wow.

If that's what we're looking at the first night I'm just going to fuck off on an entirely different server/side/ruleset until either it clears up or BoozeCube gives the signal to bail.

Look out European Alliance PvE Roleplay, Imma crash on your couch the first night.

A lot of people apparently think if they leave a "Full" server they'll end up with a dead server in a few months. That and often times when people make up their minds as part of a community and get their names reserved it's pretty hard to make them move. If they would have given a 24-48 hour notice for some of these new realms things might have gone a bit smoother. The full realms would still be full of course. That's never going away. That ship has sailed.

I do expect a ton of people to jump ship on launch when they see 24 hour queues though.

I think most people realize queues last for a week maybe and whats left is a very healthy server. The alternative being you go to one of these new servers that are low-medium and in 4-6 weeks its a ghost town or low pop and now you have to pay to go to a healthy server. Thus people keeping making on full realms(they could lock them to chracter creation then they just get a different group bitching).

I bet if they announced some free transfer later to more healther servers people might roll on low pop realms, but they usually only let those go from high/full --> low/medium, not the other way around.

While this venture will likely succeed, it's still mostly true that a decent chunk will quit in the first week(s). Then burst of population for each new phase release. Not to mention concurrent users on drops dramatically after the first week or so in almost every game.

I'm 50/50 on how blizzard is handling it. I think they are under estimating server needs because you will still have a pretty sizeable chunk log in that day to play(especially with it most likely being top on twitch) but I also agree with them on not wanting servers to be low-medium population later because of too many and the rush dies down pretty fast in the scope of things.

This entire idea was fucking stupid. Should have just released then brought up fucking new servers as they go. This is the easiest time in the history of mankind to spin up new cloud servers. Now they've created a situation where everyone has had too much time to plan.

Reserve your names on this handful of terribly named servers and sit around for 2 weeks holding your dick in your hands!

I think moving is a bad idea though. Have to just put up with the shit show beginning until enough people quit that you're still left with a nicely populated realm.

Them not making a lot of realms is a good move cause more than half of the population is just going to quit real fast.

but lol @ all this at launch is going to be great

also never forget
"you think you do but you don't"

followed by 3 years later "please there are too many of you please I am begging you do not play here "

Dom said:

If they had any sense, they would have made it possible to be logged into classic and retail at the same time so at least you could fuck around in BFA while sitting in queue, and possibly get interested enough to participate in that shit.

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this would make me hard cause I could just run AH while on a flight path for 39 minutes

BoozeCube said:

Even a Full realm in 2006 would be Low by our current metrics

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If this is the case, I see little threat of becoming a "dead realm" on any server at Medium population and up.

In fact, if that kind of scaling is true, it sets Full realms up to be an absolute cluster-fuck.

I remember winning the straglethorn fishing extravaganza to get my dread pirate ring. I read all the guides the first week about the best places to win and found out that's where everyone was. The second week I went to the places all the guides said were dead for any chance and ended up winning by more than two minutes.

Point is everyone is reading those guides and turning the "best" spots into the most contested, and therefore the worst spots. Read the guides to figure out where people are going and then figure out for yourself where it will be empty and faster as a result.

They needed more servers when they launched the name reservation. There's no unfucking that chicken but now expecting people to pack up all their guilds and friends and go somewhere else is too much to ask. Everyone has been telling everyone they know where they are playing, people have made decisions and changing course is going to leave a bunch of people lost in the shuffle. It's true for us and it's true for every single clique that made plans. The incentives in this Prisoner's Dilemma are such that everyone is going to just try and ride it.

Turning off new character creation (until launch) on the full servers days ago would have also been a decent idea. Yes you can still make characters on those servers when they go live but name reservation is closed to combat high queues.

Bribe Asmongold to talk his sperg fest to one of the low pop servers with his name locked in and a promise to let him help design an in game NPC or something for the next expansion