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On 15/11/2014 8:01 AM, Catriona R wrote:
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> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 20:08:51 +0000, Catriona R
> <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Been sitting in the queue for 3 hours already when my net blipped off
>> - cue much cursing as I discover it was off long enough to DC me from
>> WoW, but when I lgoged back on, it first showed the queue as 5.2k for
>> a second, then jumped me to 1.6k, which was about where I was before
>> the dc. Phew! Never knew that one before :-)
  I noticed that but just thought it was normal for these things.

I also noticed once you did logoff the queue position was going up, 
perhaps some sort of 'you have been on , let someone else have a go'?
I would agree with that, or it may have been a blip,or dc'd people 
reconnecting as you said.

> If "The Patient" title wasn't ingame already, it really should be
> awarded to anyone patient/crazy enough to sit through this queue. 4.5
> hours in, still got 800-odd to go... whilst I'm trying to be patient
> and not join the idiot hordes on the forums ranting and raving and
> demanding refunds, this is a LITTLE frustrating, when I've been
> looking forward to WoD so long! :-P

There are a lot, I am just being entertained, the numbers show just how 
many are really casual most of the time.

Last night after 6 hours to get on.
I went out shopping, cleaned the car, finally got on , my character that 
was stuck flying out of the garrison was back at garrison and pvp flagged ??
A REALLY funny thing, system was goin down in half an hour for 4 hours .
I was giggling at the unfolding tragedy and QQ you could bottle :-)
So just parked them all to get rested.
  Saturday now and it is going down for another 6 hours from 7pm in OZ.

   All the QQ, people demanding refunds, what do they want?
The game is usually available 23.5/7 the rest of the year for 50 cents a 
day, 2-3 cents an hour for that sort of availability is dirt cheap.
  There probably aren't all that many new players but more are staying 
longer to start off all their alts and explore the new , longer time in 
game means the queue grows.

  Demanding Blizz should 'do something' for a spike in human behaviour 
plus a heap of antisocial activity doesn't make much sense.
Most of those people aren't going to leave, they aren't even leaving the 
queue. I gave up when it was up to 2 days this morning, quickly settled 
down to only 7 hours.
If blizz just said, WOD, free lvl 90, free 2 days play to get over the 
lagfest. Would that satisfy them?

I already had 7 days free play before this, I figure I have already had 
a payment for the wasted time, so I can be pretty casual about it :-)
That contributed a bit to load , the free days should come AFTER xpac 
release, to keep the numbers at actual release down but the market 
doesn't really reward reason and honesty.

It is pretty impressive the way it is handled at all.
The worst lag I saw in draenor was a sea of characters parked at NPCs in 
their most colourful sparkly epeen mounts, full gear, a dozen popping 
trains. The animations are mostly local but the servers have to tell 
every character what every other character is doing, the more they do in 
that location the more the lag.
People are not doing much to help out the load, popping dance and 
choo-choo animations, running round and round in fast little circles, 
bouncing up and down, all little packets the servers have to interpret.