<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Looks like Blizzard has some WoW kinks to work out. Thought it was just me until I took a 3 second glance at the WoW forums. :)</div>
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Looks like Blizzard has some WoW kinks to work out. Thought it was just me until I took a 3 second glance at the WoW forums. :)
- Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>They didn't even change the code from the beta to the real client.</div>
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The excuse given is to prevent overcrowding of noob zones. I suppose forcing people to wait in 300-2000 person long queues (no that is not an exaggeration) is superior. I give Blizzard credit for a new and inventive way to foul up launch day.</div>
"For one thing to live, another thing must be killed. God, or whoever is responsible, deserves respect for creating such a system. It reveals that we cannot take all matters into our own hands. We need only to focus on doing our best--a simple, yet profound way to live, is it not?"
<div style='font: 10pt georgia; text-align: left; '>I didnt have many problems. There were a couple of times I got looting lag, but otherwise it was fine..Level 6 Dwarf Hunter, Lothar server Eastern time.</div>
Being married to a programmer is like having a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say.
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Players are perfectly willing to put up with a ton of abuse on MMORPG in general. If every person who claimed to have quit EQ actually did you'd have a negative number of people playing it right now, and WoW will be no different.
And while I don't think launch problems are critical, I'll have to agree with Tort. Having a queue is certainly one of the better ways to get people to stop playing your game. I think people would rather just see the Server go boom and knowing no one can get on instead of being told it's up there but you got to wait in this queue because you didn't login and play for 8 hours straight earlier. It also encourages people to get programs to stay logged on (30 mins afk = boot, which is a dumb, dumb idea) or play long hours, which is totally against what WoW is supposed to be.
Blizzard forgot to steal EQ2's instancing newbie zones idea, i.e. if a newbie zone can support 100 guys just make newbie zone 2 pop up when you get more than 100 guys in it. Their solution was to make everythiggn respawn in 15 seconds which makes it really fun when you just cleared out 3 things and get killed by 3 things that respawned as you're looting the last corpse. But at least death is completely irrelevant in WoW so who cares?
Phantron on Zuh'jin (East) server, human war level 8.</div>
And while I don't think launch problems are critical, I'll have to agree with Tort. Having a queue is certainly one of the better ways to get people to stop playing your game. I think people would rather just see the Server go boom and knowing no one can get on instead of being told it's up there but you got to wait in this queue because you didn't login and play for 8 hours straight earlier. It also encourages people to get programs to stay logged on (30 mins afk = boot, which is a dumb, dumb idea) or play long hours, which is totally against what WoW is supposed to be.
Blizzard forgot to steal EQ2's instancing newbie zones idea, i.e. if a newbie zone can support 100 guys just make newbie zone 2 pop up when you get more than 100 guys in it. Their solution was to make everythiggn respawn in 15 seconds which makes it really fun when you just cleared out 3 things and get killed by 3 things that respawned as you're looting the last corpse. But at least death is completely irrelevant in WoW so who cares?
Phantron on Zuh'jin (East) server, human war level 8.</div>
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Depends on the server. The biggest queue is on Archimonde, which every major PvP guild decided to meet on. The fun part is I sincerely doubt any of them will back down, either.</div>
"For one thing to live, another thing must be killed. God, or whoever is responsible, deserves respect for creating such a system. It reveals that we cannot take all matters into our own hands. We need only to focus on doing our best--a simple, yet profound way to live, is it not?"
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v488/ ... /queue.jpg">
This was from around 9-10 PM EST last night. The line did get longer as the evening progressed.</div>
This was from around 9-10 PM EST last night. The line did get longer as the evening progressed.</div>
"For one thing to live, another thing must be killed. God, or whoever is responsible, deserves respect for creating such a system. It reveals that we cannot take all matters into our own hands. We need only to focus on doing our best--a simple, yet profound way to live, is it not?"
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.leagueofpirates.com/sirvival ... ml">Catchy song.</a>
Do the queue dance!</div>
Do the queue dance!</div>
"For one thing to live, another thing must be killed. God, or whoever is responsible, deserves respect for creating such a system. It reveals that we cannot take all matters into our own hands. We need only to focus on doing our best--a simple, yet profound way to live, is it not?"
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Lum_> I gotta say I love Tortolia's avatar.
Lum_> It has that "wha da fuck?" air about it. Although I do envision you as a homeless black person now.
Tortolia> It's James Brown!
Lum_> Despite actually meeting you in person and stuff.
Lum_> well yes, but it's James Brown as a homeless black person.</div>
Lum_> It has that "wha da fuck?" air about it. Although I do envision you as a homeless black person now.
Tortolia> It's James Brown!
Lum_> Despite actually meeting you in person and stuff.
Lum_> well yes, but it's James Brown as a homeless black person.</div>
"For one thing to live, another thing must be killed. God, or whoever is responsible, deserves respect for creating such a system. It reveals that we cannot take all matters into our own hands. We need only to focus on doing our best--a simple, yet profound way to live, is it not?"
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The fun part is if you let it run all the way to place 0 in the queue, then it starts counting back up. I was up to 2000ish and 28000 minutes when I finally stopped it.</div>
"For one thing to live, another thing must be killed. God, or whoever is responsible, deserves respect for creating such a system. It reveals that we cannot take all matters into our own hands. We need only to focus on doing our best--a simple, yet profound way to live, is it not?"
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>People like that exist? I thought Starcraft and Diablo already weeded out people like that, or does everybody just have short-term fucking memories?</div>
Rosalina: But you didn't.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.
Robert: But I DON'T.
Rosalina: You sure that's right?
Robert: I was going to HAVE told you they'd come?
Rosalina: No.
Robert: The subjunctive?
Rosalina: That's not the subjunctive.
Robert: I don't think the syntax has been invented yet.
Rosalina: It would have had to have had been.
Robert: Had to have...had...been? That can't be right.