Warlords of Draenor Launch Update

[ihyln]

blizzard doesn't give a shit about your concerns. they already have your money.

[ongal]

Why are people complaining so much? DDoS cause of some of the technical issues, this could be seen yesterday on multiple sites that track these forms of attacks. Rage at your fellow human beings, who instead of doing something productive choose instead to hinder your enjoyment of the game by DDoS'ing game servers. Hip Hip Hurrah for humans.

Rest of the issues are fairly typical of online game launches, phone launches (recent iPhone launch an example), and other large events that happen on the internet.

[mcbubble]

Wow...so glad I wasted a vacation day for this. I'm very upset with Blizz today. I understand they can't mitigate all of these issues (and trust me, the white knight neckbeards and fanboys will run to Blizz's defense if I said otherwise)...but having to wait one to two hours to log in is rediculous.
For instance:
http://i.imgur.com/P4Dn0gQ.jpg

What happened to: If you were logged in, you have a 15 minute grace period? Guess that went away.
Utter and complete bullshit.

[arpium]

For those who doubt its a DDoS
http://map.ipviking.com/

[markdall]

Wow...so glad I wasted a vacation day for this. I'm very upset with Blizz today. I understand they can't mitigate all of these issues (and trust me, the white knight neckbeards and fanboys will run to Blizz's defense if I said otherwise)...but having to wait one to two hours to log in is rediculous.
For instance:
http://i.imgur.com/P4Dn0gQ.jpg

What happened to: If you were logged in, you have a 15 minute grace period? Guess that went away.
Utter and complete bullshit.

You've got me beat, from just now: http://i.imgur.com/NemGZ7N.png

[skatblast]

People still take vacation days on release dates for WoW? dont people ever learn

[mcbubble]

People still take vacation days on release dates for WoW? dont people ever learn

Have to be prepared. Can't just call out of work.
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

And yes, to answer your questions:
1. Yes, people do. 2. Yes, people learn.

- - - Updated - - -

From:
http://i.imgur.com/P4Dn0gQ.jpg

To:
http://i.imgur.com/k5FKEYT.jpg

At least my queue time decreased...
kappa

[Theholypally]

I've been in queue now for over 6 hours.

I can report without any doubt that this fucking sucks.

[thejm]

this is THE WORST launch ive ever witnessed for a game....and i've played warhammer online!!

EVERY single server is locked with a 300-8k queue that you have to sit in for hours.

When you finally get in, its just lag disconnections and back in line.

Even if you try to go onto "new player" or "low" servers it doesn't get past "logging into game server"

Terrible terrible terrible all I can do is go on amazon and recommend you DONT buy this product

[Phuongvi]

I'm really glad to see that the 7000 people in queue is not an issue they are NOT taking care

[Sanguinesun]

Warlords of Draenor makes the game seem strong and interesting. Lag loads needing Drano is more apt. This launch has been the worst expansion launch experience to date for me, even worse than BC... way worse. Bliz really dropped the ball on this one.

[ripped]

I'm really not. Seriously, if they were getting DDoS'd on top of all the player traffic, the servers would be down. Absolutely all of them would be down. You're clueless, fuck off.

You obviously know that gumboy is trolling you right? I mean nobody is THAT stupid.

[Kori]

I have an issue with MMO-Champ now. The wording. They word everything so that it makes blizz look good. Well this xpac sat in a beta test for what 6 months? 8 months? I don't know or care. The point is it sat in a beta test for so long that there shouldn't even be a thought of a possible bug. This is absurdly bad. Its what I would expect from a cheap game on Steam.

[Keile]

For those who doubt its a DDoS
http://map.ipviking.com/

It's a DDoS due to all the players logging in.

It is not an actuall DDoS attack...this is actually a "natural" DDoS caused by normal users using the service. All at once.

[majesta]

I've been in queue now for over 6 hours.

I can report without any doubt that this fucking sucks.

Same and just got disconnected while in queue. 6 hours wasted. Blizzard needs to reimburse with free time at this point.

[mikkis2k]

This xrealm bull.. is the worst thing you've ever invented blizard- SO WHAt if they have low pop on they're server?
Thats they're choice! NOT YOU!... and now we are facing phase and xserver problems--- you never learn do you? you can never do a good release, can you? Why is this so damn hard to accomplish? I missed 1day on my garrisons daily. I want it back! i just fell behind 1day just because you can't do anything right as allways on lauch when it comes to your games. :/ why am i even surprised and hoping "this year it will be different" but it NEVER will be.

[deathbivouac]

I can't even get into a login queue at this point. Stuck at "Connected" on the login screen.

Edit: ...and now I'm just disconnecting directly from there. This was after 2 hours of uninterrupted gameplay.

[Kaneiac]

It's a DDoS due to all the players logging in.

It is not an actuall DDoS attack...this is actually a "natural" DDoS caused by normal users using the service. All at once.

IpViking tries it's best to filter out real traffic compared to "dummy" traffic that happens with DDoSing.

[babyback]

Sometimes I wonder why I give money to Blizzard when they don't use it to make their game stable

Yes. They are obviously sitting at their asses just laughing at us not doing anything about it......

[markdall]

So after hours in the queue now I've DC'd and apparently everything's down. Way to go.