🚀 go-pugleaf

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>  Saturday now and it is going down for another 6 hours from 7pm in OZ.

Ouch, that's unlucky timing for you guys! Ours is going down 5am
server time, 4am for me, a good time to go to bed, I'd say!

>   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 don't think even they know what they really want, they're just
yelling because they can!  I'm frustrated, and I have made a few
(polite) posts on the subject of leaving open incoming transfers to a
full server (we'd still have been queued today but if incoming
transfers had been locked when we were getting 2k queue during every
single content patch in MoP, it might have been only a 2 hour queue
instead of a 6 hour one...), but screaming for refunds is just silly,
patience is worth a lot here. 

It's annoying, but hey, during my long queue time I sat down and
listened to my soundtrack CD; normally that wouldn't have got played
for months after, because I'd be too busy playing the game! Some
pretty good tracks on there :-)

>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.

Lol, very true indeed. My favourite hotfix note is that train sets are
now disabled, they may not actually have affected the lag too much but
they certainly do nothing to help anyone's frustration level lol. I
read on a forum someplace that the Lil' XT pet destroys trainsets with
no cd, I think I might just invest in one next time Blizz have a sale
on pets... (I HATE train sets :-P)

My play experience today: Log on after maintenance, quite playable for
a couple of hours, then got laggier and laggier. Gave up and went for
a nap, joined queue, sat in queue for 6 hours. Managed to do some
quests, laggy, but just about playable, then made the bad mistake of
trying to visit my garrison, hoping enough people had logged off for
it to work. Nope, still broken, and now I'm phased from the rest of
the world and can't see NPCs anywhere. So I logged an alt in Pandaria
and I'm doing dailies over there for a while in hopes that being
logged off for half an hour will reset my main so I can actually see
stuff - even if i can't get my work orders placed, it'd be nice to do
some missions (I am SO glad they put mission tables in all the
outposts!) and maybe actually a few more quests before maintenance!