More Queue Madness

Posted by Stropp on November 7, 2006

It seems the Queue of Doom that I wrote about the other day was due to a mistake on Blizzards part.

They had been providing paid character transfers to Khaz’Goroth and accidently left the transfers going for longer than they should have. I’ll say they left the character transfers on too long. They should never have been on at all.

Khaz has been experiencing queues for months. There’s always a two to four hundred queue on Sunday afternoons, and often at least a queue of a hundred and fifty on a week night. Then for some insane reason, Blizzard allows players to transfer their characters in from other servers. Forgot the accidental extension of the transfer, I’d like to know what they were thinking, especially when they have recently added new Oceanic realms and provided free transfers from Khaz to them.

So, now we are in a worse position than before the new Oceanic servers were added. Sundays 1100 queue prompted at least one valued guild member to consider cancelling his account. I’m not sure if he did end up cancelling, but I hope he didn’t.

And what about all the suckers, err players, who paid twenty five US quid (around 35 Aussie dollars I think) to transfer to a realm with 2 hour weekend queues? I’m sure they’ll be pleased. I know I’m not.

What we’ll see now is players who want to play on a Sunday arvo, log in during the morning and stay connected even when they’re not playing. That will be the only way to avoid the monster queues, as well as create bigger ones.

Way to go Blizzard.

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