Blizzard is rolling in cash. We have high expectations from them, to, I dunno, upgrade their 2004 servers sometime before 2009. This is unacceptable.
You can't simply throw money at a problem and expect it to go away. It takes planning, research, testing and implentation. Those things take time and I think the mmo genre is filled with to many rush jobs as it is already.
It is easy for me to say this, because I am not affected by this problem, but that doesn't change how things happen. Also adding new hardware doesn't always solve the problem. There are a lot of coding and network systems underneath the game that need to be addressed as well.
Didn't you contradict yourself here? First you say its takes alot of time and don't want things rushed out. Yet your defending blizzard when they relese content that cannot run on par beucase they didn't upgrade their servers. Isn't that considered rushing things?????
I think the demand for instances went beyond what blizzard expected and that is the cause of the problem and not a rushed patch.
Mind you I am only speculating here, but instances run fine on the current server and I don't think the new instances run any different than the old instances. The problem as I have read is demand for instances has risen on some servers which is causing the instance server to reach the maximum number of instances it will allow. Assuming that cap was set in place to keep instances from getting to laggy if there were to many or something like that. It doesn't happen on my server so I can't truely relate to the problem/
I don't think patch 3.2 broke the game, but rather the increase in demand for certain game aspects finally went beyond what blizzard thought it would.
I wish people would get over WoW but I really don't have a good reason for them to move on. There really isn't much better out there as far as I'm concerned and I've tried a lot.... LotRO, WAR, ect ect... while they each their strong points... nothing is more well rounded than WoW (it has a lot of people playing, can be soloable or grouped, can PvP, craft, ect)... in fact I might go back to playing it until Aion comes out. *shrug*
I think WoW will take a hit with the release of GW2 and FFXIV and perhaps Aion as well... but even still I'm not hoping for a "WoW killer" I'm just a little tired of the fad... but I understand it completely and it is deserved whether you like it or not.
This problem is directly related to the achievement grinding. It seems that there is a limited amount of total instances that can be open at any one server at a given time. So all the people running solo around low level instances to gain past achievement are actually reserving a very big percentage of the total amount of allowed instances on the server. When this happens, it doesn't matter what instance you are trying to get in, because that total number affects them all.
So OP. Like always http://www.xfire.com/games/wow/World_of_Warcraft/ does show the trends of what everybody and his dog are playing. WotLK brought the beginning Raids to normal people. Patch 3.2 brought the dungeons AND the twink less BG's to everybody. Everybody plays (even the Wow hating trolls), indeed it is time they leave, so we have more room !
Patch 3.2 bought the lame heroic farming for welfare epics again and the twinking system has been tested by twink guilds and It's bugged(the server will simply not create the instance for that xplocked battleground).
I know you're THE WoW fanboy on these forums, but if you don't sit 24/7 in Goldshire while spamming xfire statistics on these forums, you'd realise that this is a large problem at the moment. I've actually seen people selling heroic and raid entries on /2 because on hi-populated battlegroups, instances become unplayable after ~1 PM.
Blizzard doesn't need asskissing in this issue, they need to fix it asap.
Blizzard is rolling in cash. We have high expectations from them, to, I dunno, upgrade their 2004 servers sometime before 2009. This is unacceptable.
They are working a lot on their new MMO instead, Kaplan and most of the other competent people have stopped working on Wow now and moved to the new game.
And it is the right thing to do. Wow can't last forever and Blizzard know this. If they spent all their money and resources on Wow they would totaly miss the next generation of MMOs and even if they made a zillion dollars on Wow they can't afford to loose the next race.
But if there is too many players on your server, just transfer to a smaller one.
QFT. I find it sad people think the WoW dev team is actually attempting to generate quality content (in comparisson to old patches). Right now they are in "hold the ranks" mode. They don't care veterans are quitting, because there are still plenty left & joining by the day to makeup the numbers - the business model has shifted. And indeed just PAY for a transfer - after all its exactly what they want you to do (note the sarcasm, after all who needs the folks you met on your server or have them go too!).
I'm glad the resources are moved to the new MMO, its the logical decision on several levels...and I'm glad I quit my 4 year tenure in May But the next gen, SC2, and D3 better make up for all the QQ generated in the last year alone - which I have faith in bliz that they will.
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You can't simply throw money at a problem and expect it to go away. It takes planning, research, testing and implentation. Those things take time and I think the mmo genre is filled with to many rush jobs as it is already.
It is easy for me to say this, because I am not affected by this problem, but that doesn't change how things happen. Also adding new hardware doesn't always solve the problem. There are a lot of coding and network systems underneath the game that need to be addressed as well.
Didn't you contradict yourself here? First you say its takes alot of time and don't want things rushed out. Yet your defending blizzard when they relese content that cannot run on par beucase they didn't upgrade their servers. Isn't that considered rushing things?????
I think the demand for instances went beyond what blizzard expected and that is the cause of the problem and not a rushed patch.
Mind you I am only speculating here, but instances run fine on the current server and I don't think the new instances run any different than the old instances. The problem as I have read is demand for instances has risen on some servers which is causing the instance server to reach the maximum number of instances it will allow. Assuming that cap was set in place to keep instances from getting to laggy if there were to many or something like that. It doesn't happen on my server so I can't truely relate to the problem/
I don't think patch 3.2 broke the game, but rather the increase in demand for certain game aspects finally went beyond what blizzard thought it would.
I wish people would get over WoW but I really don't have a good reason for them to move on. There really isn't much better out there as far as I'm concerned and I've tried a lot.... LotRO, WAR, ect ect... while they each their strong points... nothing is more well rounded than WoW (it has a lot of people playing, can be soloable or grouped, can PvP, craft, ect)... in fact I might go back to playing it until Aion comes out. *shrug*
I think WoW will take a hit with the release of GW2 and FFXIV and perhaps Aion as well... but even still I'm not hoping for a "WoW killer" I'm just a little tired of the fad... but I understand it completely and it is deserved whether you like it or not.
This problem is directly related to the achievement grinding. It seems that there is a limited amount of total instances that can be open at any one server at a given time. So all the people running solo around low level instances to gain past achievement are actually reserving a very big percentage of the total amount of allowed instances on the server. When this happens, it doesn't matter what instance you are trying to get in, because that total number affects them all.
Patch 3.2 bought the lame heroic farming for welfare epics again and the twinking system has been tested by twink guilds and It's bugged(the server will simply not create the instance for that xplocked battleground).
I know you're THE WoW fanboy on these forums, but if you don't sit 24/7 in Goldshire while spamming xfire statistics on these forums, you'd realise that this is a large problem at the moment. I've actually seen people selling heroic and raid entries on /2 because on hi-populated battlegroups, instances become unplayable after ~1 PM.
Blizzard doesn't need asskissing in this issue, they need to fix it asap.
Well I just quit WoW as soon as I found out you could make both Horde and Aliance Characters on the same PVP server.
Hello, Yes and Goodbye.
They are working a lot on their new MMO instead, Kaplan and most of the other competent people have stopped working on Wow now and moved to the new game.
And it is the right thing to do. Wow can't last forever and Blizzard know this. If they spent all their money and resources on Wow they would totaly miss the next generation of MMOs and even if they made a zillion dollars on Wow they can't afford to loose the next race.
But if there is too many players on your server, just transfer to a smaller one.
QFT. I find it sad people think the WoW dev team is actually attempting to generate quality content (in comparisson to old patches). Right now they are in "hold the ranks" mode. They don't care veterans are quitting, because there are still plenty left & joining by the day to makeup the numbers - the business model has shifted. And indeed just PAY for a transfer - after all its exactly what they want you to do (note the sarcasm, after all who needs the folks you met on your server or have them go too!).
I'm glad the resources are moved to the new MMO, its the logical decision on several levels...and I'm glad I quit my 4 year tenure in May
But the next gen, SC2, and D3 better make up for all the QQ generated in the last year alone 
- which I have faith in bliz that they will.