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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 3708752" data-attributes="member: 5202">Plus let's be honest here.  There are more than 9 million D&D players worldwide.  Especially when you consider that news of a new edition brings people who haven't played D&D in decades back to hit the site to see what the new hotness is.  Plus all the people who don't even care about D&D but are mildly curious b/c they already clicked their slashdot link once, may as well do it again <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />WoW at launch was painful.  I still play on Whisperwind, one of the 20 day 1 servers.  We had insane lag, especially in the newb areas and not nearly enough mobs for everyone to kill to level, crashes, all kinds of insanity.  By the end of the first weekend they had 40 servers not 20.  It came out on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.  You know those server guys were pissed heh.  By the end of the first month they had something crazy like 80 servers.  They currently have something past 130 I think.They only printed 250k copies of the original game's first pressing and were hoping to have those sold by New Years or a lil after.  They were gone by the first weekend.  Otehr people have mentioned the forumso nTuesdays.  You can't get to blizzard's website b/c peopel are trying to find out if there was a patch or to bitch about teh patch notes.  Until recently, and ya maybe still can't, you can't login and post on teh forums while teh game servers are up.  They, rather stupidly, have them connected.Anyway, I'm willing to give WOTC some slack on their announcement day b/c DI isn't even up yet and it has yet to be a pay service.  I honestly don't expect to see subscriptions based material start making its way to DI until around March next year.  Once people are paying for the stuff and having lots of downtime, then I'll agree there is an issue.  This is just another learning experience for them.</blockquote>

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