The Queue of Doom

Posted by Stropp on November 5, 2006

From the department of things that make you go hmmm.

Today Khaz experienced queues of 1100 with players waiting 2 hours to get into the game. That’s the highest I’ve seen it, my previous “best” was a queue of 850ish. I was lucky, I logged in around 10am and didn’t have a queue at all. But my guildmates logging in at 3pm were waiting 2 hours. That’s just not cool.

I’m just wondering what’s going to happen when the Burning Crusade expansion comes out. There’s a lot of talk about ex-players re-subscribing when it’s released. What will this do to queues if they are already so big? It’s a bit of a worry.

In some ways I think this has the potential to seriously damage World of Warcraft. If people get sick enough of waiting for long periods to get into the game, and really why wouldn’t they? Then they may get sick enough of the queues to depart the game en-masse, especially when the next big thing comes out. Tabula Rasa, Age of Conan anyone?

How many game worlds became graveyards when WoW came out? It’s not outside the realms of possibility that it could happen again.

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