Queue times explained

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To put it simple: The tech for such huge amounts of server capacity does not exist. If you want to help fix the issue, transfer to low populated servers or develop next generation server tech.

It’s not Blizzards fault. There is nothing they can do.

Edit: I find it really funny how people call this bs but can’t explain in what way, especially not the technical aspect, because you have zero clue. You don’t know the first thing about networking nor the costs and limits involved.

Second of all, people laugh at me claiming millions of people are logging in, but in fact proving this is extremely easy.
A wow realm has approx. 100k of player capacity. More than 20 realms experienced login queues, meaning server capacity has been reached. And now what’s 20 multiplied by 100.000? That’s at least 2 million of players so yes, i can safely and factually say “millions”. On top of that, the launcher itself experienced long queue times and outages, meaning too many of game services, including realms and the launcher itself have reached capacity. So yes, in fact and proven by simple math, millions have tried to log on for prepatch.

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all my friends can log in in except for me im getting placed in que

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I will likely not be queued on to my server. I am queued on to battle.net launcher.

And no, I can’t log in through the WoW file itself. Authenticator blocks me.

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Try this:

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I’ve tried, it didn’t work for 15 minutes.

It suddenly worked now though, so guess… keep trying for those it fails for?

Well, I am not ingame yet, so not 100% “safe” yet.

EDIT: Yeah no. I was tricked. It helped nothing. I’m still unable to log on. I just happen to have the launcher window visible. That’s the only purpose that had.

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btw fake your Que time

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I saw this in the other discussion, but ignored it because I didn’t want to reset my que time.

This actually worked, though lmfao

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Ah well, time to watch some YouTube music vids while I wait.
:slight_smile:

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You claimed on the other thread that several millions players came back for the prepatch , which is hilarious , i’ll give you props for that

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I already play on a low populated server:
Alonsus/Anachronos/Kul-Tyras.
Had the same exact issues as everyone else.

Cheers.

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As I said above , he claimed earlier that every server had spike in logins and I quote “millions came back at the same time” so what he says is pretty far from the truth

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It’s the Battle.net log in servers NOT the realms server, but I’m sure there are queues too on the largest.

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i am on a low pop realm, i have a 2hr wait…

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Draenor had no queue and its the biggest , same for Silvermoon , the login server was the issue

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LOOOOOOOOL

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just for reference what this guy is actually thinking , justifying the fact its been like that all day

I quote “Millions of people coming back”

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I left my PC to log in, good that no server had an issue. Hopefully same at launch.
people just need to remember to stay logged in, or at least stay logged into the launcher.

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i cant even understand how incompitent blizz are
they have had declining sub counts for years
when peoples comes back and they have a shot at getting subs up, they never take it
instead the returning players are met with long queues, and i bet a fair bit just leave again

servers are not expensive anymore!
a player spot for a month must be down in the single digit cents by now?

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Yeah the OP doesn’t have a clue tbh. Never before have I seen a log in queue for the BNet client. For expansion launches I’ve seen queues for up to an hour to get into servers. This is just a patch and I had over 3 hours to access the client and then more queues for the servers. If the OP thinks that the prepatch will cause much more disruption than the expansion launch then he really is clueless.

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:rofl: Okay professional IT guy

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