009 Warlords of Draenor Launch

[autumnmuse]

Well I admit, my geek self was pretty excited to have today off work so I could really plow through the levels and get as close to 100 as I could. Let me just say ... NEVER. FUCKING. AGAIN. I would have had more fun at work than today's horror show of a launch day.

I didn't want to log in right at 3am when it launched for my area, so I figured 6ish am would have most of the people out in the new areas already and the starting areas wouldnt be so bad. I was wrong.

The lag was HORRIBLE. People standing on quest givers with the huge ass mounts just being total and complete a-holes (Wow Players at their finest). People not wanting to group so they could spam their AOE (MAGES and LOCKS mostly) and just make everyone else wait to loot quests and kill things and grab things because it was all SHARED ...

Two hours in ... and suddenly Stormrage (my main server) starts to crash, come back play for 2 minutes, crash again. Rinse and repeat this until about Noon ... and now it's been an endless queue fest. You wait 1 hour - 2 hours and suddenly it looks like its going to load and it freezes at about 90% on the load screen only to drop you out again and wait in another 1 - 2 hour queue.

Now it's not just stormrage. ALL servers are locked and ALL people are complaining about the same exact thing (even low population areas). I get it ... it's a lot of people, I really do. What I don't get is how a company with Blizzard's type of money and TEN years of experience, not realize this would be a nightmare and not plan ahead? Oh wait, I do get it. They don't care about their customers, because whatever they end up doing in the next day or two to help keep servers up ... (and what they should have done in the FIRST place) will fix the problem and all of these raged out people (Myself included) will just forget this nightmare.

So lesson learned for me ... NEVER take a day off for launch day. Better taking the Monday/Tuesday of the following week off than these two days. Now I know, so I at least learned something out of this nightmare. That, and maybe I won't even play WoW anymore by the next one lmao ...

They are now blaming it all on DDOS attacks... they've been usign this invisible attacker for over a year now. I think they need a new boogey man.

This image sums up my day since Noon (it's now 8PM). Oh and I only got halfway through level 91 ... most cant even get to level 91 and yet a handful of lucky ones on low pop servers this morning got to level 100. It's just a bloody nightmare and my geek self is ready to slaughter bunnies :D

I admit it ... I'm totally spazzing about this but I was REALLY looking forward to it and it's rough being disappointed. I love how it doesnt even give me a time frame :D

Comments

[zerenitia]

Lol my sisters couldn't get on either, though she shared her fury with Facebook |D;;;;

[autumnmuse]

Yeah Ive been sharing mine on Twitter. A lot of people are really pissed off and I don't blame them. They sold this expansion as "PLAYABLE THE FIRST DAY" We got this guys.. it will work, we promise. It's going to hit day three here in a few hours and I only played for 4 solid hours first thing in the morning on launch day. Haven't had ANY success since then in getting in.

Have your sisters?

[blm]

I'm probably just going to wait a week...

[aeris]

oh my god. im sorry, but lol. WoW must be terrible now.

[autumnmuse]

Yeah, the queue is worse today than it was yesterday evening. And now they're deleting threads from their forums. There are a lot of pissed subscribers out there lol, but they will all come back. I just wish they hadn't falsely advertised. I would have not purchased it so early if they hadn't sold this expansion as "playable on the first day" that they wouldnt have ANY of the usual launch day issues ... and this has been one of the WORST expansion releases yet.

We'll see what they do. I won't be one of those people who say "Im going to quit!" because I do enjoy the game. it's just sad to see their absolutely lack of care for their customers and lack of respect for people who fill their pockets with money. That's what upsets me. These 'proposals' to fix the stuff now... is what should have been taking place BEFORE release. Whats the point of beta? A lot of beta people are coming out admitting they told blizz this crap would probably happen and they just ignored people. That's whats annoying.

[blm]

Yeah, a lot of their talent has left over the years leaving behind the amateurs and whatever new hires they have.

[aeris]

Kinda like what happened to LJ.. D:

[autumnmuse]

Yeah. Ive been reading threads all day/reading tweets and its insane. This has been absolutely the worst launch ever. I even tried to just play on a low population server just to play wow, and couldn't. If I am not in a queue, I'm in a laggy server that crashes every ten minutes. It's just completely unacceptable at this point lmao.

I almost joined Wymrest Accord lol! But then I went to stormrage because an old friend (who stopped playing) was there. Have you had any luck today??

And they're deleting threads off the forums now and suspending accounts apparently ... oh my. LOL

[blm]

I'm way more active on FF14 these days, almost done with WoW but a part of me still wanted to check out WoD. This is pretty ridiculous, but yeah like I said before I'll try next week or maybe crazy early in the morning? As far as servers crashing I actually heard Blizzard was getting DDOS'd again, so two problems.

Wyrmrest is a pretty chill server, I like the RP on it. I actually used to be part of a huge Forsaken only RP guild when I first joined, some good memories there.

Deleting threads sounds like Blizzard these days they seem to hate any criticism, even if it's the good kind. :T

[aeris]

It is times like these that I am happy that I don't play WoW. It sounds terrible right now. :(

[autumnmuse]

I am sure the content will be absolutely gorgeous when it is playable ... and the lore is always fascinating. I think its what keeps them in business... but this? This absolutely careless planning, and ignoring their customer base in beta, and not using a fraction of the BILLIONS of dollars they make a year to prepare for a launch? That is what is upsetting and makes me really not want to play the game right now. I won't say Ill quit because I do enjoy the game a lot, and when its fixed Im sure it will be a lot of fun ...but I just need a break away from it for a few days... they really just annoyed the crap out of me with their false advertising. Promising to not have the typical launch issues and that they were prepared for the large influx of people they were hoping to get ... clearly not.