Warlords of Draenor Launch Update

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Warlords of Draenor Launch Update
Things aren't really perfect right now, but Blizzard is working on it!

We’re excited to finally launch Warlords of Draenor and explore this new world with you, but we know that the experience has been less than ideal as we approach our first full day of launch.

Europe was our first region to launch, and we encountered a few issues due to the sheer number of players attempting to enter Draenor from a single location. We worked to add multiple new ways to access Draenor, and this helped ease some of the initial rush into the new expansion as players were able to access it from their capital cities, as well as from the shrines in Pandaria.

While that solution helped a ton for our North American launch, we ran into a few other issues, including a distributed denial of service attack, that resulted in increased latency.

To help correct for this and other issues, we’ve temporarily lowered maximum realm populations. This means there will be high queue times experienced on high-population realms.

Here are some of the other important issues we’re currently working to address:

• Instance servers timing out, which may impact dungeon access
• Continent server issues, which are resulting in Player Not Found and disconnection issues
• Garrison server issues, which are resulting in phasing and performance issues

We’ll post updates here as we make progress against these issues. Thank you for your zeal to face down the tyranny of the Iron Horde—and for your continued patience as we work to improve the current experience.

Login Queues

In attempts to pinpoint latency related issues we’ve temporarily lowered the maximum number of people allowed in each realm. This will result in higher queue times as realms who have populations above the cap will not allow any new players in until it decreases back down below the new player cap. We’re continuing work on this and other issues impacting game latency.

[Micfeind]

They claim DDOS, but is it really ok to say DDOS when it your player base trying to connect?

[The Boomking]

I wasn't aware they were being DDoSed at the same time. Man, those server technicians have got a lot on their plate... Now I'm glad I planned on waiting a few days until I started, hopefully things will be up and running smoothly soon.

[Gihelle]

Yeah I'm pretty sure they've been getting DDOS'd since midnight PST and that's why I had to get through a 4k queue TWO TIMES IN A ROW, only to be stuck waiting for my fiance THAT DC'D LITERALLY THE SECOND I GOT THROUGH THE 4K QUEUE THE SECOND TIME.

[MonsieuRoberts]

Son of a mother duck.

I just want to play. ;_;

[Backsmack]

I wasn't aware they were being DDoSed at the same time. Man, those server technicians have got a lot on their plate... Now I'm glad I planned on waiting a few days until I started, hopefully things will be up and running smoothly soon.

LizardSquad has been smacking every game upon release and stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if they were doing it again. Just the way things go, I guess. Though if it isn't Lizard Squad, then it is some other group being general jerks.

[SinR]

Blizzard getting DDOSed by the millions of people just trying to play the game they paid for.

[Akaena]

FML all days since launch I dodged the que every time I got dc'ed or server shutdown my luck ran out now in a 3465 que rofl god dammit.

[merex760]

What a disaster.

[Twotonsteak]

"This will result in higher queue times as realms who have populations..."

I call BS. At this point even the "medium" pop servers are showing as locked and have queues.

And the DDOS is also BS. A DDOS wouldn't explain why their system claims I have a toon logged in, when I couldn't log in.

[Aerisot]

Lol, I got to log in earlier, played for 3 minutes, got disconnected and then had a 2 hours queue after the restart, logged in again after taking a nap, got disconnected after a minute and now stuck in an over 4 hour queue...lol

Good thing I'm not rushing for world first...sheesh.

[scoops]

DDOS isn't a great excuse for the dozens of completely bugged quests.

[Deleted]

So they are blaming DDoS...for shame. What a bunch of lying @#&#s!!!!

[shadowrunn]

They didn't say ddos was the only issue, just one.

[ChaosWolf]

DDOS can and does occur - it's not just the case of everyone and their auntie trying to run to Draenor at once, but malicious assholes trying to floodkill the servers' bandwidth limits on top of it.

[getupkid55]

And the DDOS is also BS. A DDOS wouldn't explain why their system claims I have a toon logged in, when I couldn't log in.

uhh actually yes it could

[SinR]

DDOS can and does occur - it's not just the case of everyone and their auntie trying to run to Draenor at once, but malicious assholes trying to floodkill the servers' bandwidth limits on top of it.

DDOS seems to be the usual scapegoat for problems nowadays.

[SteveZombie]

And the DDOS is also BS. A DDOS wouldn't explain why their system claims I have a toon logged in, when I couldn't log in.

That's funny, I missed the part where they said DDOS was the direct cause of that specific issue. Care to point my eyeballs in the right direction?

[Steampunk]

They claim DDOS, but is it really ok to say DDOS when it your player base trying to connect?

Absolutely not.

But it's a WoW expansion; and we should be used to their inefficiency.


I'd love for Trion to be in charge of WoW's stress-tests and servers and SOE to be in charge of their business model (adaptive) when things go wrong.

[drinoff]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ4cDFOflwo

This .
U Suck.
There is No...and i mean it.. NO Excuse. Cant Be.