EPT[wow] Warlords of Draenor - Page 234
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Nyxisto
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Firebolt145
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Nyxisto
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aksfjh
United States4853 Posts
On November 14 2014 07:00 Noocta wrote: I think WoD and the marketing around it probably pulled back more players than Blizzard expected, which would explaion the insane launch issues that usually don't run that rampant. Launches are always bad simply because Blizzard doesn't have a good way to scale infrastructure for unusually large spikes in activity. There's no cheap, simple way to do it either. It's not just adding hardware, but adding the linkage and debugging any issues that arises with that hardware, as well as testing it full capacity for the first time. You have to invest in temporary hardware and temporary, skilled personnel. In other news, position 2704 in queue after 30 minutes. Probably won't be able to play for another 2 hours. :/ | ||
Darkhorse
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Redox
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SigmaoctanusIV
United States3313 Posts
How goes all your leveling/Garrison fun? | ||
Teoita
Italy12246 Posts
On November 14 2014 08:32 Firebolt145 wrote: /tar his-name Keybind 'interact with' to something This would have been done hours ago if it was possible. Currently it seems like servers are so fucked up that he isn't spawning so you can't target him, because there's thousands of people in the same garrison. | ||
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Tabbris
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Gryffindor_us
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Jerubaal
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Firebolt145
Lalalaland34491 Posts
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aksfjh
United States4853 Posts
On November 14 2014 08:42 Redox wrote: Is it possible that servers are overburdened because all those garrison instances create a lot of extra load? There's likely a number of things that could be doing it. It's likely code that hasn't been optimized to the full extent. Looking at what has been changed and added in WoD, I wouldn't be surprised if it is garrison related (there is a lot of content in there), but it could be other things as well, including good ol' lag problems from simply too many people in proximity to one another when it comes to garrisons. Updated queue position: 2235. | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
Now it of course has the tiiiny issue that if you haven't established your garrison, you cannot advance in the story because of Garrisons not working. This is for EU, I imagine NA is a lot more smooth as always as they seem to just use EU to betatest. | ||
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Tabbris
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Cyro
United Kingdom20285 Posts
I re checked time stamps and i actually queued for twisting nether at ~21:05, so it will have been a 3.5 hour queue (starting from 10:05pm server time | ||
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Squat
Sweden7978 Posts
On November 14 2014 08:34 aksfjh wrote: Launches are always bad simply because Blizzard doesn't have a good way to scale infrastructure for unusually large spikes in activity. There's no cheap, simple way to do it either. It's not just adding hardware, but adding the linkage and debugging any issues that arises with that hardware, as well as testing it full capacity for the first time. You have to invest in temporary hardware and temporary, skilled personnel. In other news, position 2704 in queue after 30 minutes. Probably won't be able to play for another 2 hours. :/ I'm not doubting that this is true, but every time it gets brought up the replies always come in the form of vague allusions in the spirit of: "you don't get it/it's too expensive/it's not as easy as you think etc". It might be helpful if there were some specific information of just what kind of cost and manpower blizzard would need to commit to if they were to manage, say 7 million+ concurrent smoothly. Usually it's just a lot of condescending sneering aimed at people with less technical expertise, which just inflames the situation further. | ||
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NotSorry
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Cyro
United Kingdom20285 Posts
On November 14 2014 09:47 NotSorry wrote: Is there a way to see all characters on your account and what servers they are on before reactivating an account? I have 4-5wow accounts and I can't remember what characters I have on each one, would really like to know before I add WOD to one of them. I was able to see most or all of that by going to account management and clicking on a service like faction transfer, while my sub was down | ||
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Startyr
Scotland188 Posts
Also I would recommend this interesting article on single shards http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4175/infinite_space_an_argument_for_.php?print=1 Of course they are fundamentally different games but it seems there are other possibilities beyond a straightforward and expensive approach of buying more hardware. It is more to do with the style of the game, beyond expansion launches, Wow does not need to regularly cope with thousands of players in a single battle and so there is little incentive to develop the means to cope. | ||
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