World of Warcraft: Current Year
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It's called 'surge'. I work launching software to the public; every time we have a big update we increase capacity temporary with several of our 'hosting' vendors. 300k systems downloading patches and updating and so far it's working great, when the 'surge' is over we release those resources back and we get charged by the time (just like an utility)
Blizzard is one if not the biggest gaming company in the world, and for them not to have this down, after 10 years and 5 expacs, it's mediocre.
Yeah, it's your own personal instance. I guess Blizzard didn't predict the logistical impact of giving millions of people their own instance.
The phasing is insane. On proudmoore anywhere you go stuff only loads a few feet away before fading out.
Vorph
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There's ways to get xp that aren't affected much by the server issues. Show me someone with a rank 3 garrison (or hell, even a full rank 2 one) and I'll be impressed.
My opinion on the matter is: if you can't get your own shit together, then you should be paying Amazon to do it for you. Whatever load Blizzard is experiencing right now is nothing compared to what Amazon handles every year from Black Friday to New Year's, when Netflix releases a new season of a popular original show, etc.
What pisses me off is that I just had my leveling experience from 20-90 shit on by CRZ overcrowding every step of the way, but they refuse to CRZ the new zones and end up with servers that are practically ghost towns while places like Stormrage have ~120k alliance (and <2500 horde, lol) and it's unplayable.
I haven't played since 2010. I just boosted my old Hunter to lvl 90. This is like a whole new game!
Vorph
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Queue on Stormrage has said anywhere from 20 to 260 minutes. Actual time to get in took about 90 minutes (14:45 to 16:15) and I'm sure it will get much, much worse as people get home from work, log in after dinner, etc.
Edit: That was just to get past the queue, still in a holding pattern trying to get past the black screen 'Retrieving character list' thing.
Edit: That was just to get past the queue, still in a holding pattern trying to get past the black screen 'Retrieving character list' thing.
Gankak
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I got past that.. and am trying to load into game but that doesn't appear to be happening either. Been trying for 30 minutes now
Yeah. Proudmoore queue expected time is anywhere from 230-430 minutes right now. And when you're in, we have every griffin in a holding pattern over the garrison like it is 9/11 or something. It is pretty crazy.
Gankak
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90% boss kicking my ass. This launch is horseshit. MoP was 10000000x more smooth for some reason
Soygen
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I think a lot more people came back for WoD than MoP. I'd be interested in seeing the numbers.
Noodleface
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Don't forget, a shit ton of people got MOP beta access when they paid for a year of WoW (plus got diablo 3 for free), so I'd be willing to bet a lot more people "saw" it before launch and decided against it.
But hey, lets all give them a break, launching an expansion is not easy! especially the first time! and also when you're brand new and have very limited funding!