I remember WoD Release. I’d login to the queue, go to work for 9 hours + 30 mins driving, come home, and be juuuust about done with the queue. And that wasn’t even a mega-realm. Just normal high pop.
ugh, and the queue was made worse by people deliberately AFKing in game for 8 hours (wailing caverns or stockades usually) so they wouldn’t get a queue on login!
Yeah, Legion was probably the smoothest launch I experienced in the long time I’ve been playing. Thankfully I wasn’t on a very high pop server at the time so I rarely ran into queues.
MoP was just as smooth as Legion for me, the only hiccup was the fact that Blizzard put that graphically intense helicopter montage quest as the VERY FIRST THING in the expansion, so 400 people were all doing it all at once all the time for a couple days straight. If that quest were like, halfway through Jade Forest, MoP Launch would have been perfect too.
Yeah, that was fun being in a stack of several hundred copters 10 minutes after the expansion dropped and not even being able to see the boat you were supposed to shoot at…
When Legion dropped my guildmates and I would remote log into our desktops from our phones, log into the game, and be home by the time the queue popped.
Around new releases, I take that as time to stay away from the game for a few days to let all the speed players race to the next max level and rush thru content on whatever mad deadline they seem to have in their heads. They then get bored and adjourn to the forums to whine about “nothing to do”, at which time I can log back in and resume my meandering enjoyment of the game world at leisure.
This used to be a problem. However, now there’s a little thing called Showgoers.
So you just hop in discord with your guildie/s, pick a show on netflix and all watch it together while in queue.
I remember WoD Release. I’d login to the queue, go to work for 9 hours + 30 mins driving, come home, and be juuuust about done with the queue. And that wasn’t even a mega-realm. Just normal high pop.
ugh, and the queue was made worse by people deliberately AFKing in game for 8 hours (wailing caverns or stockades usually) so they wouldn’t get a queue on login!
Now you play the waiting game.
No! Let’s play hungry hungry hippos!
Tbf Legion launch went off without a hitch imo, I played over the threshold with some guildies and everything went smooth.
Yeah, Legion was probably the smoothest launch I experienced in the long time I’ve been playing. Thankfully I wasn’t on a very high pop server at the time so I rarely ran into queues.
MoP was just as smooth as Legion for me, the only hiccup was the fact that Blizzard put that graphically intense helicopter montage quest as the VERY FIRST THING in the expansion, so 400 people were all doing it all at once all the time for a couple days straight. If that quest were like, halfway through Jade Forest, MoP Launch would have been perfect too.
Yeah, that was fun being in a stack of several hundred copters 10 minutes after the expansion dropped and not even being able to see the boat you were supposed to shoot at…
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When Legion dropped my guildmates and I would remote log into our desktops from our phones, log into the game, and be home by the time the queue popped.
Around new releases, I take that as time to stay away from the game for a few days to let all the speed players race to the next max level and rush thru content on whatever mad deadline they seem to have in their heads. They then get bored and adjourn to the forums to whine about “nothing to do”, at which time I can log back in and resume my meandering enjoyment of the game world at leisure.