The fun fact is they will ban you 6 month for botting or 3rd party program if you use TeamViewer, Nvidia Geforce Cloud, Shadow, or whatever solution to try to login into the game to avoid queue time xD.
1 Like
Funny thing is… this is nearly impossible to really fix, just pay to transfer =) whatever blizzard decide to do, people will find a way to f**k it up like they always do.
We have to build a wall and Gehennas is gonna pay for it!
6 Likes
Better start loggin’in already if you are raidin’ later around 20:00.
Right now queue is up to 1500 which means around 2 hours as last Wed queue was 3.5k at 1700 and waiting time was around 4 hours.
P.S.: “clAssiC Wow iS d3D - Ded S3rver”
Can we get a bluepost on this?
Everyone from low pop realms is migrating to Firemaw, making this server a huge mess!
5 Hours queue in the evening at tops, Wbuffs take 30min to procede due to city lag.
Please perma close transfers TO Firemaw and allow transfer FROM Firemaw to med-low servers!
5 Likes
Have a 8-16 office job and want to casually log on and play for a few hours after work? Impossible, if you play on Firemaw.
If I can’t play without planning my whole day around gaming, then forget it… Sub cancelled
6 Likes
Firemaw player since day 1 of classic. The queue’s have been something all of us learned to live with and prepare for. But queue’s starting as early as 2PM on an off-day is a defenite problem.
Some action has to be taken Blizz.
1 Like
Blizzard need to do something ASAP.
2 Likes
One important thing to remember for the ones saying free transfers won’t solve the problem, is that I have seen many realms drop in population drastically over the years from free transfers. So it does actually happen.
It didn’t happen on Firemaw last time, the only reason for that is because the free transfer was implemented quite early, not early enough, but early. Therefore many players, including myself chose to stay. Because we have loads of friends wanting to stay, and we also wanted to see how it played out down the line, thinking people would transfer or even stop playing the game entirely, partially because people would get tired of the queue.
But the issue is still present, and it’s elevated by the Corona crisis the world now experience.
I am at a point where I will actually transfer from this realm if we get a free transfer. I will gladly move away from all my friends and my guild, just to be able to login whenever I want and play right away, instead of sitting 2+ hours in queue, play for 1 hour or 2 and get ready for bed again.
Now you might say “you can transfer now for 25 Euro, why don’t you just do it and stop complaining?”
Because over the years I have transferred many characters, paid transfers. And looking at the total number tells me, now it’s enough, I won’t pay any more money for such a simple task as a transfer, which is not even a manual task performed.
The problem Firemaw is experiencing is something Blizzard can make good money on. All they need to do is to stay silent for a while and wait, like they usually do. When people start unsubscribing, that’s when they actually start taking a closer look at it.
Blizzard should actually give a helping hand to Firemaw now and allow free transfers again. It has gotten out of hand.
Like I said, I am willing to never play with my friends again in order to actually play whenever I want or whenever life allows me some time to play.
3 Likes
I am the GM of a smaller guild, and the queues are really putting a break on our raids.
Our main raid day is Monday, where we usually get around 30 people online on time, with a few always stuck in queue for various reasons.
I cannot expect people to be online 4 hours before the raid time, as almost all of us have jobs, responsibilities, taking care of children, a million other things to do.
I cannot expect people to keep an eye on their character for 4 hours while they are AFK, because your sh**ty algorithm is kicking people off the server randomly in rush hours.
We already have people using remote desktops and teamviewers to combat this garbage, but not everyone feels like this is a normal thing to do in a god damned video game.
Are we expected to recruit 10+ people just as backup for these insane queues?
How the hell does a server in 2020 have a 4 hour queue starting at 4 pm server time?!
1: stop transfers to full servers.
2: Temporarily increase capacity on firemaw (servers are scalable, or at least should be if you’re not incompetent)
3: Add free server transfers from Firemaw to X, Y, Z.
4: Decrease capacity once queues get manageable (once the COVID-19 pandemic starts dying down and people return to work)
5: ???
6: Profit.
We thought we do, we actually do, but we can’t.
Fix this fecal matter of a situation.
7 Likes
Out of touch snowflake moron much?
Firemaw is known as the twitch dodge server. Gehennas is the twitch kiddie server. I was completely sure and entirely confident that absolutely everyone was completely aware of that. Apparently one person didn’t get the memo. Consider yourself educated.
4 Likes
I 100% agree with the original poster.
There were queues on Firemaw since the very beginning. They kept on decresing, so it was not that bad, with a fine perspective for future.
Sadly, with the recent global events, queues are on the rise. They make the server hard to play on, hard to raid or manage a raiding guild. Telling people to log in 3 HOURS before the raid is not really sustainable.
We are experiencing huge influx of players due to people remaining in their homes. This is not your everyday issue, as we are all aware this is not an ordinary situation we found ourselves in. This requires additional care and out of the box approach.
I can suggest return to layering and ban on server transfers into Firemaw.
Layering will fix not only the unplayable queues, but also issues with scarce resources (scaled for servers many many times smaller than Firemaw).
One of the reasons why layering was removed was to make sure there is only 1 World Boss up at any time (since the timing of it). This is such a trivial price to pay for a stable server that I am sure the community would have no issue with going back. And we have enough huge guilds to cover/camp/compete all the respawns many times over, barely changing anything.
I really hope Blizzard has the wisdom to not stick to “no-more-layering” paradigm just due to principle. I understand this was the plan, and it was a good one. Sadly, times change. No one could have planned for what we are experiencing atm, and now is the time to act.
Thank you
2 Likes
Firemaw was the 4th or 5th most popular server for a long time. It’s one of several servers added after blizz figured out the original handful of servers wouldn’t be anywhere near enough for launch.
At some point people started paying attention to firemaw, probably thanks to Progress. Since then it’s slowly become the most popular server, even though most of us originally picked it exactly because it wasn’t looking to be the most crowded. Queues eventually went away like on all the other servers, but now the server’s the target of way too many transfers.
If you think we ‘joined the highest pop server’ you have no idea what launch was like.
At this time i am paying for game i cant play, amazing!
1 Like
WE need free server change AWAY from Firemaw NOW!
5 Likes
Not sure what the problem is? I freaking love being queued for twice as long as the raid takes to complete on a raid night.
IT’S TOP SHELF!!!
1 Like
I’m currently number 3016 in queue, after work and dinner. May not be able to log in at all today again.
Customer Service responded with the most polite “not my job” answer to a ticket I raised on the issue. 
"Greetings,
Game Master SNIPPED NAME here to help you out. hope you are having a nice day!
I was looking into your ticket and I am sorry to know you are experiencing log in queues in your Classic realm as they seem to start super early and this obviously is getting in your way.
I totally see your point of view here, however this is something that Customer Support is unable to help nor change sadly as only the developers can change these by opening Free Realm Migrations, in the end it is just a matter of keep reporting it on the forums so the developers can see this and take actions for these.
I understand it is far from ideal for you specially now at home but it is important to keep reporting it on the forums so that the developers can see it and act on it.
Hope this helps and brings some clarity onto this situation ^^
Best wishes on your journey"
4 Likes
At this point Blizzard just want to make a quick buck, making people transfer by paying they know about this but they just don’t f*cking care.
4 Likes
They definitely should do the latter, and I hope they’ll do the former.
I’d transfer out of Firemaw in two heartbeats now. Really tired of constantly planning and constantly worrying about a sudden DC that would ruin my day.
2 Likes