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Same here. They probably ballsed up the zone tags for flying somehow.
Played a bit during the EU launch window.
Everything broke and it was unplayable for a good 40 minutes following the midnight moment. For the first time in my life I also saw a battle.net app queue screen.
Once I finally managed to get in, I started experiencing the weirdest issues I've ever seen in WoW. I would port to Blasted Lands, fly all the way to the portal itself, only to be miraculously teleported back to the portal. Lose connection, respawn in Orgrimmar instead.
But once the first hurdles were overcome, it was pretty great. The cinematic going into the portal was awesome, as were many that follows. Also, a lot of truly great cut scenes rendered in glorious detail with the game engine.
The quests that precede the building of the garrison are actually very well made - in terms of allowing many players spam it at the same time. I did not have problems with the planting of the tree marker banners. Mob spawn rates were obviously crazy fast due to the player count.
Played all the way to building your first barracks in the garrison. Then I realized that I have work in the morning, and now I am here, sleepy as all hell.
Even with all the problems that were manifest at the beginning, this has been the coolest expansion launch in a long while.
Everything broke and it was unplayable for a good 40 minutes following the midnight moment. For the first time in my life I also saw a battle.net app queue screen.
Once I finally managed to get in, I started experiencing the weirdest issues I've ever seen in WoW. I would port to Blasted Lands, fly all the way to the portal itself, only to be miraculously teleported back to the portal. Lose connection, respawn in Orgrimmar instead.
But once the first hurdles were overcome, it was pretty great. The cinematic going into the portal was awesome, as were many that follows. Also, a lot of truly great cut scenes rendered in glorious detail with the game engine.
The quests that precede the building of the garrison are actually very well made - in terms of allowing many players spam it at the same time. I did not have problems with the planting of the tree marker banners. Mob spawn rates were obviously crazy fast due to the player count.
Played all the way to building your first barracks in the garrison. Then I realized that I have work in the morning, and now I am here, sleepy as all hell.
Even with all the problems that were manifest at the beginning, this has been the coolest expansion launch in a long while.
unknownstranger
Member
I have about 5 seconds of lag trying to do anything. May give up for the night and log.
Completed Shadowmoon valley, goddamn. What a magnificent zone. Beautiful vistas, skyboxes, and general architecture. Single handedly redeemed draeneis in my eyes 
Final event and cutscene were great as well.
I would spend all my game time there if I could :lol:
On the other hand Karabor was superb, it hurts even more. ;(
Final event and cutscene were great as well.
I would spend all my game time there if I could :lol:
On the other hand Karabor was superb, it hurts even more. ;(
They need to phase the entire starting zone for launches like this.
Fuck the MMO experience, this is literally unplayable. I'd rather play a playable single player game than an unplayable massively multiplayer game.
Fuck the MMO experience, this is literally unplayable. I'd rather play a playable single player game than an unplayable massively multiplayer game.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
That would be stupid for anything past the first week of the launch, maybe even the first day.
It's just not gonna work for the first few hours, there's nothing they can do about it nor should they.
Got DC'd on Sarg. And Hearthed lol. Can't get back to draenor.
Why would it be stupid? You lose absolutely nothing by not seeing other people running around as you quest.
By the cata portals. I had to google it. I shit you not, that amateur hour piece of shit is how you get back haha
Fotheringay
Member
I refuse to go to bed before marking at least one tree. I need this moral victory.
I'm at two as well. You're on Stormreaver right? Maybe I'm in your group
Yeah, I doubt it though. i'm running with some other community peeps.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
By the cata portals. I had to google it. I shit you not, that amateur hour piece of shit is how you get back haha
I figured it out right after I posted, you have to walk through it if youre going through the big one in blasted lands, you can't be flying/on a mount.
It wouldn't matter how far in they had it instanced, people would just move through that part and get to a roadblock all the same. They specifically said they wanted to get back to the MMO feel the game used to have at Blizzcon.
MMO feel wasn't hundreds of people spam clicking a flag for an hour trying to complete a quest, last I checked.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Don't be obtuse. Launch events are an outlier. Having the entire server in one spot will never happen after the first 24 hours of the expansion going live.
I'm not being obtuse. You lose literally nothing by phasing the content. They did it just fine in Tanaan Jungle. It won't happen after the first 24 hours because no one will be doing it anymore, at which point you (again) lose nothing by phasing the content.
GasProblem
Member
Heh, went to bed at 2 am, just woke up. General chat in Shadowmoon is full of people complaining about latency and mobs not spawning,
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
Me no likely the server issues
Got my garrison, AND finished my first WoD dungeon. I'm happy, and that's enough for this launch. Going to rest up and play tomorrow evening
For everyone still playing... have fun y'all! May you get something awesome
wow. lucky.
I still can't do the Garrison thing, but they are setting a hotfix now
I'll let you know when the servers start working, so get back to me next week.
Whenever it's working, people are ecstatic.
GasProblem
Member
Expansion itself is great so far, the hoirrble server lag where everything is delayed by 2-3 seconds and random crashes to the character select screen aren't
I'm now listening to a harp playing Draenei at the Lamplighter Inn. Her music is so soothing <3
Too bad the game isnt playable atm, because of the lag.
Spending hours trying to complete a single level 91 quest is an integral part of the MMO experience. This is necessary for the health of the game.
When it's working properly, it's pretty amazing so far.
The intro questline is damn good and just built my garrison. Think I'll do Bloodmaul Slag Mines first then do questing on Frostfire.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Saying they should design their game around a single day of burst traffic is just forum QQ.
Anything they did to alleviate this would be absolutely pointless in 12-24 hours.
Guess they wasted all that time phasing Tanaan Jungle for nothing then, eh?
Fotheringay
Member
Phasing trivial bottleneck quests hardly has the impact you're implying it does.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
The intro quest is the tutorial for boosted 90s, it's there to hook players into continuing playing while giving them a unique experience. It's there to learn your class and get your skills.
I need that essential MMO experience when I'm leveling up my 5th alt in 3 months.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
That's exactly why it is the way it is, so normal play wouldn't be impacted and have people seperated in different phases when it wouldn't be needed.
Except when I'm leveling up my fifth alt in 3 months, there will barely be anyone doing the quests anyway. Phasing it changes nothing.
You realising thios is a networking issue and not that easy to fix right?
Destiny had none of these issues. Blizzard knew they were going to have a frontload on the zones because there's no new race or class to level, so they knew everyone would be in one zone. Yet they didn't phase it off, they didn't use the single servers instead of the merged servers temporarily, they didn't do anything to prepare for it because that costs money. And we don't like spending money.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
For all you know phasing Tanaan jungle for everyone to have their own personal zone is taking up server resources from the rest of the continent and making everyone else lag as it goes through those motions.
TheContact
Member
I tried waking up at 3am (3 hours ago) but I couldn't do it. It's 6 now and I have to leave by 730 so at least I'll get an hour of game time in until I get home from work at 5
Yeah, and maybe 1% of the people online right now actually managed to get out of the first few zones by now. Blizzard screwed up, it's okay. It's not the end of the world.
TheContact
Member
So I got a few quest deep, burned some huts, now there's no quest after that because of a bug. Can't do anything. So glad I didn't wake up at 3 lol
Edit--Found out what I needed to do: there's another set of quests on the map that I needed to do before I could continue
Edit--Found out what I needed to do: there's another set of quests on the map that I needed to do before I could continue
Fotheringay
Member
Well I got my garrison up. Then spent 20 minutes waiting for Groog to spawn with about 100 other people. Guess I'm just gonna go to bed.