Alot of MMO's have their servers programmed to let you back into the game without a que if you were in the game within the last 10 minutes. It's incase of things like, needing to reboot, crashes, kicks, accidental exits, etc etc. Hopefully they get that feature implemented soon as most all of the people upset here seem to be more pissed about having to get back into the que again than they are about the initial wait or the untimely crash.
However, to be fair, duuuuuuurr.. welcome to Launch DAY of a mmo, wth did you think was going to happen? If any of you have the slightest inkling of how complicated a process launching an mmo can actually be, please, stand up and feel free to complain. Also, these comments of "I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt the first week"... so ummmm, why are you posting such inflammatory and pissed off threads on the boards right NOW, and not a week from now?
Head starts are a little bonus for pre-orders, but the main purpose for the company is to ramp in customers, rather than have everyone coming in on launch day.
You know there will be crashes, full servers, queues, etc...
If you are in a guild or 100% stuck on a particular server, you grin and bear it. If not, look for a server and faction combo with no queue. Help balance the populations and spend your day playing, rather than sitting in a queue.
The good news is that the server caps will be increased steadily as the leveling curve spreads out. The bad news is that there will be a lot of SE and retail customers looking to join friends and guilds on those same servers.
CE servers are likely to be crowded for some time. Once again, people will need to weigh their reasons for staying there vs. starting on a less crowded server.
Just remind yourself that it could be worse: You could be one of those chumps that paid hundreds of dollars on Ebay this week for a CE slot.
Logged onto the collector's edition head start this morning, started knocking out quests with guildies, then got kicked from the server for some reason. Ok, no problem. Except when I log back in I get a little error saying realm full - you are 280 of 280. Estimated wait - 1 hour 35 minutes. I know it's the first day of head start, but c'mon. Over an hour wait. I'm absolutely willing to give Mythic benefit of the doubt since the game hasn't even technically launched. But I'm not - repeat not - looking forward to the days of WOW when it took hours to just get online. This stuff drove WOW players crazy back in the day - and at the time WOW was the biggest game in town. If Mythic doesn't get this under control in the next few weeks, they're going to get absolutely crushed by WOTLK.
The queues disappeared or reduced by more than 80% in about 5 hours. The reason was that Mythic raised the cap for both sides 100 by 100 every hour. They did this to make people chose lower populated servers at start, very good strategical thinking.
OP fails. Go back to WoW for your queues.
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I want to give props to Mythic and GoA for a very nice headstart launch, yes there are queues on various servers, but almost exclusively for Destrucion side, my friend wanted to play Destro too, but we agreed we should start with Order now, because we don't want queues.
So either roll Order, have queues or find a lesser populated destruction server ( yes they are there ).
It is 100% your own fault for rolling on overpop realms.
Mythic and GoA did great strategical planning and did what was needed for server health.
Edit : I had 0 crashes, seen 0 bugs and had 0 queues so far in headstart.
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I was in as soon as the server opened today, through the first 5 hours or so on destruction side. I didn't have a single problem or crash. (And I am running a POS computer.)
Granted, I had some horrendous lag at times..but my pc comes in at the low, low end of the requirements, and I had my guild website, voice chat and another site open at the same time.
One of my guildies did have a 20 minute wait about 3 hours in because he got a late start though.
All in all, I can honestly say there has been nothing wrong with this launch, they are forcing overflow to less populated servers. Good for Mythic. It will help to avoid the horrible start that WoW had in the long run.
Plus they have already said once the game is in full swing there will be free transfers to other servers if they are needed. No big deal.
Why you bums go on about the HORRIBLE waiting? You can be anywhere in the world while standing in line for Scenarios. Anywhere! Go RvR while waiting :P
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If you're Mythic and you're going to hold a special headstart event for CE holders, do it right. Have enough servers open so that it's not a total goat rodeo. That's all I'm saying. If you're servers aren't up to snuff, then don't hold the headstart. Overpromising and under-delivering is a bad business move, especially to CE edition holders who are likely your most dedicated fans at launch. Some of us have been hardcore Warhammer tabletop fans for the past 15-20 years. We're Mythic's core audience, the guys who will stick around and sink money into the game after the WOW kids have left to go play death knights.
That's right. Then in 3 months we could all start whinning about needing server mergers cause Mythic didn't undertstand the difference between initial rush and settling out.
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Alot of MMO's have their servers programmed to let you back into the game without a que if you were in the game within the last 10 minutes. It's incase of things like, needing to reboot, crashes, kicks, accidental exits, etc etc. Hopefully they get that feature implemented soon as most all of the people upset here seem to be more pissed about having to get back into the que again than they are about the initial wait or the untimely crash.
However, to be fair, duuuuuuurr.. welcome to Launch DAY of a mmo, wth did you think was going to happen? If any of you have the slightest inkling of how complicated a process launching an mmo can actually be, please, stand up and feel free to complain. Also, these comments of "I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt the first week"... so ummmm, why are you posting such inflammatory and pissed off threads on the boards right NOW, and not a week from now?
Head starts are a little bonus for pre-orders, but the main purpose for the company is to ramp in customers, rather than have everyone coming in on launch day.
You know there will be crashes, full servers, queues, etc...
If you are in a guild or 100% stuck on a particular server, you grin and bear it. If not, look for a server and faction combo with no queue. Help balance the populations and spend your day playing, rather than sitting in a queue.
The good news is that the server caps will be increased steadily as the leveling curve spreads out. The bad news is that there will be a lot of SE and retail customers looking to join friends and guilds on those same servers.
CE servers are likely to be crowded for some time. Once again, people will need to weigh their reasons for staying there vs. starting on a less crowded server.
Just remind yourself that it could be worse: You could be one of those chumps that paid hundreds of dollars on Ebay this week for a CE slot.
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The queues disappeared or reduced by more than 80% in about 5 hours. The reason was that Mythic raised the cap for both sides 100 by 100 every hour. They did this to make people chose lower populated servers at start, very good strategical thinking.
OP fails. Go back to WoW for your queues.
-----------------------------
Osbourne Cox: You are the guy from the gym.
Ted Treffon: I don't represent Hardbodies.
Osbourne Cox: I know very well what you represent. You represent the idiocy of today.
Ted Treffon: No, I don't represent that either.
Osbourne Cox: You are part of a league of morons. Oh, yes. You see you're one of the morons I've been fighting my whole life. But guess what. Today, I win.
It boggles the mind when almost everyone was going on skull server. There were plenty of servers without queues yet guilds just had to go there .
Two servers had queues for destruction. Not Myhtics fault a guild picked that server. I got in just fine on a low pop erver.
I want to give props to Mythic and GoA for a very nice headstart launch, yes there are queues on various servers, but almost exclusively for Destrucion side, my friend wanted to play Destro too, but we agreed we should start with Order now, because we don't want queues.
So either roll Order, have queues or find a lesser populated destruction server ( yes they are there ).
It is 100% your own fault for rolling on overpop realms.
Mythic and GoA did great strategical planning and did what was needed for server health.
Edit : I had 0 crashes, seen 0 bugs and had 0 queues so far in headstart.
Greetz
If you are interested in subscription or PCU numbers for MMORPG's, check out my site :
http://mmodata.blogspot.be/
Favorite MMORPG's : DAoC pre ToA-NF, SWG Pre CU-NGE, EVE Online
I was in as soon as the server opened today, through the first 5 hours or so on destruction side. I didn't have a single problem or crash. (And I am running a POS computer.)
Granted, I had some horrendous lag at times..but my pc comes in at the low, low end of the requirements, and I had my guild website, voice chat and another site open at the same time.
One of my guildies did have a 20 minute wait about 3 hours in because he got a late start though.
All in all, I can honestly say there has been nothing wrong with this launch, they are forcing overflow to less populated servers. Good for Mythic. It will help to avoid the horrible start that WoW had in the long run.
Plus they have already said once the game is in full swing there will be free transfers to other servers if they are needed. No big deal.
Why you bums go on about the HORRIBLE waiting? You can be anywhere in the world while standing in line for Scenarios. Anywhere! Go RvR while waiting :P
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http://www.rlmmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=424&start=0
"
And I don't want to hear anything about "I don't believe in vampires" because *I* don't believe in vampires, but I believe in my own two eyes, and what *I* saw is ******* vampires! "
Reroll Order.
Yep, no queue on my server at all. Hope if stays that way once everyone else can get in.
That's right. Then in 3 months we could all start whinning about needing server mergers cause Mythic didn't undertstand the difference between initial rush and settling out.
Here's what i remember of WOW's lauch:
http://www.leagueofpirates.com/sirvival/queuedance.html