Smoothest launch in the history of WoW?

[SethRoguen]

Never made it past the login servers yesterday. Got home from work 2 hours ago and just finished a 2 hour queue, only to have the game lock up and close completely on the character select screen. When getting back on, was placed in a 2.5 hour queue. So yeah pretty smooth on my end

[Eurhetemec]

I Simply asked you which metrics those would be from your statement here :

My point there is it wouldn't matter - whatever metrics they used, people would say they were meaningless. A point you then proved was correct, but suggesting some metrics and basically saying they were meaningless lol!

LOL @ poor argumentation. Son you don't even have argument, you're just waving your hands like someone in a Key & Peele sketch or something at this point.

Uhm no.

Vanilla = 15 years old, SL = 0 days old.

What the fuck lol?!? Is this a joke? You think there's more nostalgia for something 0 days old than 16 years old?

[Newname1234567890]

My realm has been down for hours at a time. So for me. No

[MikeBogina]

I think that last time I turned on WM since the alliance buff was introduced is during past lockdown in march/April/may to farm the rajani war serpent (way more groups with wm on no idea why).

No way I’ll turn it on never ever unless to do that kind of stuff again.

I even level alts with wm off. Stuck into PvP servers since day one of Vanilla, now I’m enjoying the game the safe and relaxed way.

what's this ally buff? I just came back for Shadowlands

And I'm sorry to hear, i did try out Uldum a week ago and got farmed by a raid group... goddamn Stormrage alliance scum! xD

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Likely they sharded way too much. But that is better than not sharding enough.

been loving it now that i found a good spot to skin stuff at and barely any one bothers me

[razorpax]

Wod, legion and BFA were better. BFA just had issues after "launch" with zones being laggy as hell


So no. Realm being down for 3 hour and not being able to play isnt "smoothest"

Draenor EU was unplayable for days in BfA

[chiddie]

what's this ally buff? I just came back for Shadowlands

And I'm sorry to hear, i did try out Uldum a week ago and got farmed by a raid group... goddamn Stormrage alliance scum! xD

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been loving it now that i found a good spot to skin stuff at and barely any one bothers me

I call it alliance buff because it was introduced some time after war mode in order for the bonus percentage given by WM to be higher if your faction was outnumbered in WM on mode because almost everyone into it had WM off.

This was because in most realms there were far more Horde than Alliance in WM mode, making it mostly unplayable for them, even in Kul’Tiras (their zone). When this change came out many Alliance turned WM on in order to have the major buff, so for me (horde) it became impossible to do WQ in Kul’Tiras since all the spots were heavily camped. I turned it off back then, never turned it on again (didn’t mind the buff anymore) and never regretted it.

[erifwodahs]

Classic had 1,300,000.

Classic was hyped up AF and reached into all generations of wow players and it was not midnight I think. The classic is certainly a success, but no where near to the hype levels which people had at the start.£

[mrgreenthump]

Orgrimmar before launch was a shitshow. But after the launch, it has been really good for the most part. Seems like they've learned their lesson.. Or we have a huge drop on player participation.

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Draenor EU was unplayable for days in BfA

Most big realms were. Same in Legion and WoD.

[Dracullus]

My 3rd smooth launch in a row (4th including Classic) and I played on midnight every time. Could we finally just laugh at people who doomsay about servers crashing before every launch?

And yeah, I know few realms had problem like always, probably overcrowded servers will be problem until Blizzard introduce some kind of megaserver. It's not like we are far away, only guilds (but we have communities), mythic raids (still rest is cross realms and even mythic raids get it during tier) and gold/economy are left, and only last one is issue that could create resistance from some players.

[Gorsameth]

My 3rd smooth launch in a row (4th including Classic) and I played on midnight every time. Could we finally just laugh at people who doomsay about servers crashing before every launch?

And yeah, I know few realms had problem like always, probably overcrowded servers will be problem until Blizzard introduce some kind of megaserver. It's not like we are far away, only guilds (but we have communities), mythic raids (still rest is cross realms and even mythic raids get it during tier) and gold/economy are left, and only last one is issue that could create resistance from some players.

The overcrowded servers are only an issue for a few weeks until the initial wave of returning players inevitably dies down. Not worth it for Blizzard to invest a lot into such a temporary problem.

[Kauko]

Sure it was fine... but man, I barely see anyone during leveling. And I am on a full realm. Man, I miss old times where hundreds of players spammed one character...

But yea, playable game >>> lag fest.

[Collected]

Smooth as butter for me in EU on Argent Dawn. Kinda surprised not to be hitting log in queues actually.

[Dracullus]

The overcrowded servers are only an issue for a few weeks until the initial wave of returning players inevitably dies down. Not worth it for Blizzard to invest a lot into such a temporary problem.

More like few hours on launch + probably some evenings this week. I'm not saying Blizzard should make megaserver to solve specifically this issue, I just think game goes in that direction.

[sam86]

Legion was smoother for me, i had weird dc for no reason, stuck once game refuse to dc or do anything, but still nothing bad at all as like pre-legion launches

[Laqweeta]

My point there is it wouldn't matter - whatever metrics they used, people would say they were meaningless. A point you then proved was correct, but suggesting some metrics and basically saying they were meaningless lol!

LOL @ poor argumentation. Son you don't even have argument, you're just waving your hands like someone in a Key & Peele sketch or something at this point.



What the fuck lol?!? Is this a joke? You think there's more nostalgia for something 0 days old than 16 years old?

If it was better it would be more popular.

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Classic was hyped up AF and reached into all generations of wow players and it was not midnight I think. The classic is certainly a success, but no where near to the hype levels which people had at the start.£

So was SL it sold "record copies"

[Gaidax]

So far I have only encountered one annoying bug in the Maw that was solved by relogging. Other than that it really was smooth sail 0 issues for me.

[Cyi]

I had no launch issues at all and I was there the moment it went live.

[Nizah]

We even have issues now on Kazzak lol

[YatagarasuKami]

Can't tell, since I can't play...

Kazzak-EU have had more downtime than uptime. Hour long queue times, black screen on character select and the infamous "stuck on 80%"-loading bar when you manage to get past the black screen.

Not to mention the 15s+ delay on looting, accepting/turning in quests etc... Or the fact that the Kazzak world server have crashed more times than I've kept count of at this point.

[Nuciek]

I can't relate to any people that say they had problems.

Relogged to my main 20 minutes before launch (Burning Legion - EU). No lags. At midnight there was just a bit of lag for accepting the first q and going into portal. After that it was all smooth and without any major bugs, lags, without any crashes or cd I have leveled up to 60 yesterday. The only place I have encountered a lag was in my first dungeon run. Did more runs, skirmishes and a BG and no lags, even at the peak hours.