Comments on: World of Waitcraft

By: Ethic

Ethic — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:43:41 +0000

Account is cancelled until they actually do something about the problem. If it is a permanent situation, then it’s a permanent cancel. Oh well, it was a fun game – just not available to me when I wanted it to be.

I understand some people never encounter these problems and to them I say congratulations. It may just be a time zone thing, but whatever it is – it affects me and not you. Don’t invalidate my complaint because it doesn’t happen to you, I wish I could have the same experience you have. But the fact remains, I cannot log directly into the game when I want to. 5 minute queues I could even tolerate once and a while. WoW is just too popular for me I guess. That’s life.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:22:43 +0000

The problem is that I am busy. I have things going on. I have some time free up all of a sudden so I decide to go play. Queue stops me dead in the tracks. If I had scheduled time to play, perhaps I could log in 30 minutes early, but I don’t. And sometimes I just want to pop in to check something, like an auction. No dice. So it’s really a game-killing issue for me, and that’s ok. I cancelled my account and won’t likely come back unless something changes on their part. The only other game that gave me this level of frustration regarding just getting in to play whenever I wanted to was Anarchy Online. That game seemed to predict my desire to play and crashed just before I doubleclicked the icon. I have not yet once been denied play by EVE Online, even with over 20,000 people playing at the same time on the same “server”.

By: Zxyrox

Zxyrox — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:02:49 +0000

lol, i refer you to my above topic, blizzards patch 4tw!!! honestly, ive not yet formed words to express my frustration..

By: Ethic

Ethic — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:43:53 +0000

Well, all that matters to me is *my* personal experience. WoW is the only game that has done this to me and thus why I can say a hearty FU to Blizzard. My money goes elsewhere. So far, EQ2 Trial of the Isle is fun fun fun and free free free. I’m beginning to accept that the MMO lifestyle may no longer be right for me. sigh

By: Zxyrox

Zxyrox — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:33:52 +0000

I will second that every MMO has queues, EVE does infact have “world server full” at many times on me, infact, every major content patch and/or world event the server has been on a clog for a good part of a week, and often times on holidays and weekends i have gotten the same “world server full” message. Glad some people can say they haven’t, cant say the same for myself.

By: Inhibit

Inhibit — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:32:32 +0000

VanHemlock, I must agree. Blizzard seems wholely unprepared to deal with their success. Much more hardware should have been in place, and designs to limit who can access what server should have been there as well.

But, after all…. this IS Blizzard we’re talking about. Not like it should be a shock. Heh

By: VanHemlock

VanHemlock — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:53:43 +0000

The WoW EU servers have had similar troubles since the patch…possibly the novelty will wear off sooner or later, once the Gates are open, and the new Raid Instances comprehensively mapped, analysed and thottbotted.

It does annoy me that they continue, even after a year or more, to be shocked, suprised and not very well prepared, for their own success though.

By: Inhibit

Inhibit — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:30:47 +0000

LtWarhound: I dont know what EvE you play… but the one I played it happened many times. If you have never seen it, you etiher stayed logged in more than I, or did not attempt to log as often.

But it’s a fact, I have been kicked back from the login many times… with the message of “too many”. And this from a paying account, not the “Hey, come try us for 7 days you like us” accounts… about 30k subs online seems to be EvE’s limit….

And yes… it is an authentication server thing with WoW… it’s how they set their system up. It’s not number of players on a specific server. It’s number of people trying to log onto a specific server.

You go thru a login in server.. Name/PW… then your info is attempted to transfer to a specific server… but if too many people are trying to do that… you get a queue… not sure why this is hard to understand….

Do I like it? no…. will it improve? most likely not… can we as a playerbase force an improvement? Of course… but not until we… the players/payers…. in a concerted effort do so. And the odds of that… are less than me finding some omgwtfbbqpwn!!!!!eleven purple epic on a rabbit….

By: winter

winter — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:36:31 +0000

When I only have limited time, but I know in advance that I will have it, I just log in early, if there is a queue, I wait while I am doing other stuff and once I am in, I can AFK for 15-30 mins before I get booted. Harsh for people in queue I know, but it works for me.

By: Ethic

Ethic — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 02:45:28 +0000

For someone like me, that only gets X amount of time to play and when the beginning of that time involves a 30 minute wait to play, I’m not going to put up with it. I know other people don’t care and that’s wonderful for them. I do care and I’m not going to pay for it. I guess this just means I have to avoid popular mainstream MMOGs. Nothing wrong with that I guess.