What happened to Blizzard servers?

[Dotality]

So for the last few months, as everyone knows, EU servers have been straight garbage. From DCs, to impossible lags in warmode, and now, we tried running 40v40 Alterac Valley and it was complitely unplayable. Like is this even a multiplayer game anymore? Am i supposed to play single player until I come to raid, I don't udnerstand.

[Xofa]

Go whine on the official forums. Nothing good will come out of here.

[Onikaroshi]

EU servers have always kind of sucked, idk what it is.... it's not just wow either FF's EU server suck too. Maybe EU datacenters just aren't that great.

[Dotality]

Go whine on the official forums. Nothing good will come out of here.

I can whine to Jesus Christ himself, Blizzard will do nothing about it.

[MCMLXXXII]

No issues here.

[Dantos]

EU is the most populated region of wow so, its kinda normal to be laggy, especially on sunday evening

Also, the usual ddos attacks

[Djuntas]

Also depends on your realm. AH lag was huuuuge issue, and still is. The AH on low populated realms are much snappier....it sucks, waste so much time.

[MechaCThun]

I can whine to Jesus Christ himself, Blizzard will do nothing about it.

Well Jesus does not work @ Blizzard, so yeah, you're right.

[Cracked]

Well Jesus does not work @ Blizzard, so yeah, you're right.

Neither does Blizzard apparently.

[Good ol Stroggylos]

Pray to rngesus. At least some kind of joy may come once every fortnight

[Gimlix]

Go whine on the official forums. Nothing good will come out of here.

Ur so fucking useless. This is basically spam.

OT: @Dotality: Blizzard is slowly killing of the MMORPG name. WoW will soon be a Singleplayer Game.
U can do Alterac Valley with 39vs40 bots (you are the only player)

Nah for reals. Blizzard servers have been doing worse and worse each expansion. Which is odd. Because vanilla had 0 issues with big world pvp and now people get punished for it because the server becomes too laggy.

[Bulo]

try to attack enemy city with 40 man raid, you probably broke whole realm... those problems come in legion

[Gimlix]

try to attack enemy city with 40 man raid, you probably broke whole realm... those problems come in legion

Those problems came when Blizzard started to drop the idea of having a MMORPG. Remember that Swifty got banned for making a massive WPvP event and the servers couldn't handle it? Ye Blizzard 100% is not supporting massive player events anymore.

That is why we are getting solo quests, dungeons and maybe soon raids aswell.

[Xofa]

Ur so fucking useless. This is basically spam.

OT: @Dotality: Blizzard is slowly killing of the MMORPG name. WoW will soon be a Singleplayer Game.
U can do Alterac Valley with 39vs40 bots (you are the only player)

Nah for reals. Blizzard servers have been doing worse and worse each expansion. Which is odd. Because vanilla had 0 issues with big world pvp and now people get punished for it because the server becomes too laggy.

Me useless? What does that make you then? Gods gift to humanity? My answer is still 100% valid, just because you seem to stupid not to understand it. Got problems ingame, with the stability? Where to whine hmm? Of the official forums by Blizzard or some fan website..

Common knowledge really..? Must be hard for you :O

[Gavll]

Even private servers run better than Blizz ones

[dope_danny]

Honestly hasn't that been the way since like Cataclysm?

[RoKPaNda]

WoW is more akin to an instanced based content simulator with instanced hubs and an instanced "outdoor" world.

Everything is instanced now.

Instead of spending the billions of dollars they made on better servers and merging dead servers with other dead ones they cut costs with sharding. Why make great servers that can handle 40v40 battles when you can have shitty little cheap shards that can't handle 10v10.

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Vanilla servers ran better than BfA servers. It boggles the mind.


Billions of dollars and 10+ years later and the servers are worse? Cost cutting cunts.

As much as I think it's hilariously bad that Blizzard servers can't handle a couple hundred people in one area (When streamers have tried to organize 40v40 and crashed servers more than just the 40v40 showed up.) Vanilla servers were handling a lot less data, and nostalgia is one hell of a drug. The servers would chug when it came to large raids at TM and SS, and they were processing 2-3 digit numbers, 4 in the event of mage/warrior crits. Which I'm not excusing it, and I'm not trying to, I think it's awful that large scale battles in the open world can't happen, but performance was far from buttery smooth in vanilla.

[GrinnersGrin]

A couple of months?

*laughs in OCE*

[Roar-Powah]

Ur so fucking useless. This is basically spam.

OT: @Dotality: Blizzard is slowly killing of the MMORPG name. WoW will soon be a Singleplayer Game.
U can do Alterac Valley with 39vs40 bots (you are the only player)

Nah for reals. Blizzard servers have been doing worse and worse each expansion. Which is odd. Because vanilla had 0 issues with big world pvp and now people get punished for it because the server becomes too laggy.

WoW is running completely on the cloud database now, and i have a feeling it's why the game runs like complete shit since BfA. Never had an issue while playing Legion, i don't know how much of the cloud computing they where using back then.

[darklogrus]

Its always ran like shit..

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WoW is more akin to an instanced based content simulator with instanced hubs and an instanced "outdoor" world.

Everything is instanced now.

Instead of spending the billions of dollars they made on better servers and merging dead servers with other dead ones they cut costs with sharding. Why make great servers that can handle 40v40 battles when you can have shitty little cheap shards that can't handle 10v10.

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Vanilla servers ran better than BfA servers. It boggles the mind.


Billions of dollars and 10+ years later and the servers are worse? Cost cutting cunts.

All part of their cost cutting features to increase their profit margin. Besides they wont merge dead servers because then they would have to tell the player base 3/4 are dead weight. An how would they ever make their money with all the over priced service fees..