Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

Yeah. And all the issues they're having now appeared then, and it almost seems like they didn't bother preparing to handle an increased load. It's like they assumed nearly everyone in the stress test wasn't going to play the game.

To give some context, the lobby server, which hosts you after authentication and before you get into the game, keeps going down. People can't get into their worlds, so they all congregate there, and it crashes. That's new to post-launch. Their queue is also hilariously small. Essentially, once you get placed in the queue, you'll be in the game no later than 30-60 seconds later. But you might spend hours attempting to just get placed in the queue.

It's easily the worst launch I've ever experienced. And I was in the Cataclysm beta.

It's a shame, because they've done a really good job with the actual game.

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i just watched this movie.

was awesome. you all should watch it if you havent.

Looks like something I'd be interested in. Kind of a Kickass type storyline.

I expected it to be as bad as any other launch, sure. But this is so, so much worse than anything else I've experienced. It's like the population of players is many, many times higher than what they expected and prepared for.

It's obvious that no company is going to pay to have servers set up for a launch load they'll never hit again. But it feels like these servers aren't even remotely up to the task of managing their normal load.

The maintenance today (one week after launch) is adding new worlds and more servers to support the existing worlds.

Apparently server transfers will come later.

But they're also adding additional server support to the existing servers, and raising the cap for the number of concurrent connections on those servers. Right now, it's 5k per. Don't know what they're raising it to.

Hey, I've been away for like, 3 days and there's only 20 or so new posts? ******* slackers.

meh.

Worst admin, ever!

So that'd be LockeCole?

They're both my socks.

Lost Locke in the dryer recently, though.