World of Warcraft rant

[evildm]

Also, how many characters can one account have?

50 per account, 10 per server. Probably the most out of any MMORPG. Additionally, if you cancel your account, your characters remain forever, allowing you to come back whenever you like.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

*Blink Blink* Last time I was in Best Buy it certainly seemed like they had plenty of copies. And a friend of mine who plays the game has had no serious lag issues.

It might be that the chain stores purchased enough copies that Blizzard has none on hand themselves.

The Auld Grump, or maybe Maine isn't selling them as fast as other places...

And this time when I went into Best Buy there weren't any. I guess the local store just bought a lot of copies when they ordered it.

And my friend does say that there is some lag in the cities on the busier servers, he frequents lower use ones.

Or in other words - I was wrong.

The Auld Grump

 

[Ruined]

A friend of mine was glancing around for a copy for me, and ran across this article:

http://articles.filefront.com/No_More_Players_for_World_of_Warcraft/;340;;;/article.html

 

[mattcolville]

Great, another MMORPG screwed up because the company hypes it up for a year and half before it comes out, then when things go wrong with the servers getting overloaded, ect. they say "we did not anticapate such a high demand."

It's not demand that's got them flummoxed, it's networking. The kind people do.

People want to play with their friends, something Blizzard didn't count on. They counted on people being relatively evenly distributed across servers. No. They counted on the Queues getting people to switch servers. Didn't work that way.

So now they're trying to deal with this.

 

[Pielorinho]

I've had problems in the game on my high-population server (Argent Dawn), but nothing game-breaking: the worst I've had is minute-long lag when I'm at the auction house at peak hours. It's frustrating, but it sure doesn't stop me from playing it obsessively.

I'm hoping they allow for character migration soon: this seems to me as if it'd be the easiest fix. From my little bit of DB knowledge, this would entail moving one record from a character table, up to 51 records from a talent table, up to a couple hundred records from an items table, up to five items from a skills table, up to a hundred records from a "learned recipes" table, up to two items from a mount table, and then possibly a handful of records from a handful of other tables. It doesn't seem as if it'd be too difficult to design a button on the character screen that allowed for this export/import to occur.

Daniel

 

[KenM]

I have had a couple of lag issues at a few times. Most frustrating was I had lag when I died and got back to my corpse and clicked that I was ready to be raised. 5 minutes later I was back in my body.

 

[Urbanmech]

I've been playing for about 2 weeks and the only real annoying day was last Monday when it took me an hour to log on with the que. But after that everything was smooth sailing. The only time I lag is when I'm running by the auction house in Iron Forge. Other than that I have nothing but good things to say about this game. Extremely playable either solo or with a group, fun quests galore, and lots of little features that make it great. If you don't play that often make sure to log off at an inn and then gain x2 exp when you come back. You can mail things to other players and even your own characters on the same server. Flying around on Griffon back is awesome. I hope Blizzard keeps up the work on this because in a few months once all the wrinkles are out it will be beyond great.

Gimble 25 Gnome Warlock, Silver Hand

 

[Ruined]

Update on my situation: Friend who sent me article calls on the cell phone Sunday and lets me know that EB Games just got in a small shipment. So against better judgement, I go and grab a copy. I've had no problems logging into the non-high servers. For fun, I did look at Tichondrius (sp?), and it had the queue going, starting me at 310. Luckily, that wasn't where I wanted to play.

And btw, curses to you all. This is a fun and addictive game...

 

[driver8]

Well Ive been playing since Dec 6..on Llane. Its a low to medium population server. Ive had about 3 really bad distruptions. Two caused log in to go wonky for about an extra hour and the other was around Christmas when alot of the servers went down for the better part of a day.

I am really enjoying WoW..its kept me away from ENWorld, and kept my attention more than any other MMO to date. I feel for those on the infamous 20 servers, but it seems alot of the "journalism" on the outages is a bit overblown.

For instance, Penny Arcade took back their Game of the Year Award it gave WoW becasue of the outages. Why would anyone give a MMO that was out a month Game of the Year? Alot of sites and publications jumped on the bandwagon, then jumped off at the first sign of difficulty. And lets face it.. what else was there ot write about in January?

Anyway, Im sure Id be complaining if I was on one of the 20, but alot of people got the game at Xmas and the population jumped. Id still recommend the game, if you can find it.

And, if youre on Llane give Rumspringa the Night Elf Druid a shout.

 

[Panthanas]

I've been playing for a little less than a month now, and I've experianced very minimal lag, even when in Ironforge (although I'm not there that often). I've never gone over 275 ms on the little "Lag-o-meter". I am on a low to mid population server, Dragonblight.

Anyway, the game is a blast although I don't think my fiancee thinks so

If anyone is on Dragonblight and wants to look me up:
Nightelf Druid named Pantuke.