World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor | Launch Thread

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Tenck said:
It's a hobby. Whether you think it's healthy or not doesn't give you any reason to say he's got issues.



You get a grace period if you get disconnected. It's pretty short though.
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Danomeon said:
Eh, I'd take a look at his average playtime and the way it's affecting his life if you really want to see if this is "healthy". I don't think getting uber-excited about a new game you've been anticipating for a long time and binge-playing it is 'unhealthy', it's not like he's doing it 24 hours for the next two weeks. A lot of us have had considerable gaming marathons like this.
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Well I have never had a marathon of gaming in my life. But the thought of playing 20 hours straight doesnt seem healthy Hey but that's just me and my almost 30 old ass.
 
In my opinion, Blizzard should reward everyone with an extra day of gametime for this launch.

Or maybe that's just me.
 
daveb234 said:
Nooo!! I thought blackrock was a low pop server. I come home to find out there's a queue :(
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The queues are due to hard limits on the servers by Blizzard until they can rectify internal and external latency issues.

That's not to say that a Thursday night/Friday morning huge queue for those playing on US servers is solely related to what Blizzard are doing.
 
Worked 14 hours, went to gym, got home to relax and play some wow. Nope. Oh well, time to watch Netflix haha.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO URNS
 
This must be the worst launch they've done (ignoring Diablo III). Never seen this wide spread of issues. Managed to play through the day avoiding the issues... Except at one point where my quest was in the garrison, had to just stop...

Hope they get it all fixed soon :(
 
Kuni said:
This must be the worst launch they've done (ignoring Diablo III). Never seen this wide spread of issues. Managed to play through the day avoiding the issues... Except at one point where my quest was in the garrison, had to just stop...

Hope they get it all fixed soon :(
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Blame the DDoS.
 
Dice said:
You're on my server? I just took whatever Blizzard threw at me yesterday. Let's be friends when the game is back.
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Yeah I transferred like 2 months ago because all my friends are on Zul'jin. If you ever need any help just message me in-game.

I'll PM you my Battle.net tag.
 
I've been queued on Kel'Thuzad for 2 hours and I still have 2500 people ahead of me. Blizz needs to implement free server transfers ASAP or this problem is not going to go away for a while.
 
Kuni said:
This must be the worst launch they've done (ignoring Diablo III). Never seen this wide spread of issues. Managed to play through the day avoiding the issues... Except at one point where my quest was in the garrison, had to just stop...

Hope they get it all fixed soon :(
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Nothing will ever beat the launch of vanilla wow in terribleness. This is still pretty bad though.
 
imo this is the best xpac to date i love the new models the zones are beautiful the cut scenes and voice acting are great you can really see what having the extra hands on deck helps from the ex-titan staff coming back over to wow, MoP and cataclysm look half assed in comparison. i really thought id hate the garrisons and followers (pretty much ripped off from swtor lol) but im really digging it.... thats the good

the bad this is hands down the worst launch of any wow xpac and even counting vanilla, the server lag is a joke, broken quests long ques, lines to kill mobs 1, hour wait for dps in dungeons and giving everyone a free level 90 sure didnt help any

im sure they will get over the launch and time will tell if the endgame lives up to some of the older xpacs
 
k4n3 said:
imo this is the best xpac to date i love the new models the zones are beautiful the cut scenes and voice acting are great you can really see what having the extra hands on deck helps from the ex-titan staff coming back over to wow, MoP and cataclysm were a look half assed in comparison. i really thought id hate the garrisons and followers (pretty much ripped off from swtor lol) but im really digging it.... thats the good

the bad this is hands down the worst launch of any wow xpac and even counting vanilla, the server lag is a joke, broken quests long ques lines to kill mobs 1 hour wait for dps in dungeons and giving everyone a free level 90 sure didnt help any

im sure they will get over the launch and time will tell if the endgame lives up to some of the older xpacs
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Sounds like they got DDoS'd, too.

But yeah, as someone pointed out to me earlier, when you combine the free 90 boost (so everyone can do the new content immediately), a single starting zone for expansion content (where there's usually two), no new classes or races (so no one is starting a new character in those zones), and you've got a clusterfuck where every player is going to the same spot at the same time on launch day.
 
Vincent Grayson said:
Sounds like they got DDoS'd, too.

But yeah, as someone pointed out to me earlier, when you combine the free 90 boost (so everyone can do the new content immediately), a single starting zone for expansion content (where there's usually two), no new classes or races (so no one is starting a new character in those zones), and you've got a clusterfuck where every player is going to the same spot at the same time on launch day.
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ya good points forgot about the no new race/class, i was on at 5am est and it was a madhouse
 
First time since BC that I won't be there for launch day/weekend shenanigans.

Hopefully I can pick it up sometime next week.

Can't get on the server anywho, so I'm not too mad about it.
 
That was fun. Playing on Nagrand was silky smooth, not a single lag issue at all. To be fair though the rush hasn't really started yet (It's only 1pm Friday) and I'm not expecting to be able to play at all on the weekend.

I'm loving the garrison followers already. I can see myself wanting to try to collect them all. Oh and I really loved the look and feel of Stormshield (?) the Ashran mini-city. Very cool.
 
Wife is waiting on lightbringer - takes her down to less than one minute then moves to 300. I am sitting around trying to get halo matches going. The future is dogshit.
 
Can't progress at the end of the first zone on Turalyon. Server crashed when in the cutscene, and now when I ask Khadgar to get out of the area, I instantly disconnect.

Hell now, I disconnect when I move, or turn around, or talk to any NPC. Chat works fine though if I just stand still.

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Cisce said:
Can't progress at the end of the first zone. Server crashed when in the cutscene, and now when I ask Khadgar to get out of the area, I instantly disconnect.

Hell now, I disconnect when I move, or turn around, or talk to any NPC. Chat works fine though if I just stand still.

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What UI is that?
 
Yeah, just a heads up to anyone waiting to get in. I got in after about an hour and a half wait only to hit huge lag and I was no where near the new area. After trying for 15 mintues to cook 5 items I just gave up and logged off. Will try again tomorrow.
 
On Korgath, at least the world server goes down every three hours. The next reset should be at 12am. Been happening all day.
 
Yeah...servers are taking a huge dump now.

Everyone got d/c'd and ported back to Shrine, then I couldn't even get out of my Garrison.

Draenor is boned.
 
Finally got through queue on Stormrage... Retrieving Characters.... and disconnected. Now stuck at Logging into Game Server. Well that's it for me tonight. And probably tomorrow :(.
 
Well, I got on with a ~400 person queue this afternoon at around 1pm this afternoon, and mostly managed to stay on all afternoon/evening, with occasional server crash shenanigans booting me back to character select (never all the way back out to the queue... which was great, as according to guildies it hit 3k+ in the evening).

Now it's just gone 3am, I've hit 95, and i'm stuck in an instanced scenario version of Talador getting "Transfer Aborted: instance not found" every time I try to take the portal back to the normal version of the zone.

I think I might as well take this as a hint and go get some sleep.
 
Nagrand is broken now. Every time I try to leave my garrison I get stuck in the area where you phase into the main zone. I can't move forward or back, or hearth out. It'll kick me to the character select screen soon and I'll be back at the shrine.

For me this is far and away the worst launch experience for an xpac (I wasn't around for vanilla launch). Even last night when it was working there was 10 second lag for every ability.
 
I don't get it. I'm on one of the biggest servers (Tichondrius) so I expected queues. But I played Pandaria launch week and had 1-2 hours queues first few days. Nothing like this. And subscribers have only gone down right? WTF.

Did they just over slash how many servers they have or something?

Good news is I logged in 9pm last night, so played midnight til about 5am. Slept, got up 7 hours later. I log in to see my queue spot is 4500 or so, but then a minute later a server DC knocks everyone off including queuers and I manage to log right in LOL.

Thanks to that stroke of good luck, managed to get to level 94 after another 3 hours of play today. Gonna call it a day and go out with my GF. Good luck to you all! Hope it's better by tomorrow...
 
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