🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:03:06 -0600, Cryptoengineer
<pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

>We'll see how it goes. My lock is logged out, flying immediatly above
>K and the other VIPs. My server is medium pop, and I had no particular
>problem logging in a little before MoP dropped. I hope to get on a 
>little after 2:30 AM, EST, then wait for the drop.

You should be fairly alright then, so long as you get logged in well
in advance (login servers are vulnerable too). I'm on a very
overpopulated server, queues were nearly 4k last I heard, so our
launch was predictable!

15 mins to go, boom, world server down. Log back in having been ported
back to Shrine, laggy as hell and no city portals. Fine, I think, time
for the smart approach: Dalaran port ring (best 5k gold I ever
spent!), then on reaching Org, take the zeppelin instead of the
invisible portal. That worked, made it to STV, got a notice in chat
about Warlords of Draenor launching, cool... reached the border to
Blasted Lands and thought the heap of people stuck on the border was a
bad sign... yeah. Dc'd again.

Tried to log in again, 90% loadscreen, dc'd, "Error retrieving
character list" black screen. trying to login gets stuck on
"Connecting", so I guess we killed the login server too. Whenever it
goes further than "Connecting" I guess I'll be on the end of the 3k
login queue, ho hum. At least I can stay up all night, should be
playable enough in another 2-3 hours...

Finding the forums hilarious for the amount of tantrums - don't people
know by now that this always happens? Sure, it's frustrating but I've
come to expect it, so I can (mostly) laugh it off, really not sure
what anyone expects to happen with several million people hitting the
servers all at once. I highly doubt any company on earth has the
capability to survive what's effectively a very big DDOS! I'm actually
impressed the forum server hasn't fallen over too tbh...