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<blockquote data-quote="Duncan Haldane" data-source="post: 1980943" data-attributes="member: 514"><p>I've been playing WoW since the day of it's release.</p><p>I had nearly four weeks holiday in that time, during which I played a LOT.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I'm logging in from Australia. My typical time is about 500ms. I use broadband.</p><p>I play mostly a horde character on a medium population server. </p><p>I rarely have any noticable lag.</p><p>Admitidly I'm mostly on a quieter times, but even so, distance makes up for a lot of that.</p><p></p><p>I have found a bit of an issue if I quickly fly from one city to another, where I tend to get drastically slow response. I believe this is because it's not forgetting all the people in the city I was in, and is also adding all the ones in the city I've gone to. If it's bad I log off and back in and it's sorted out.</p><p></p><p>I think that Blizzard should contact guild owners on heavily populated servers and ask if they would be prepared to move their guild to a low pop. server. There could even be some kind of enducement for them if the guild accepts. This would allow a fair amount of balancing for the server populations, without expecting players to start over.</p><p></p><p>As for whether blizzard should have anticipated all of this use of their game, I believe they have been desperately trying to bring new servers on, but also need to train new GMs at the same time. While they did know how many copies were being sold, it sold out far faster than anticipated, and they were understaffed for it. </p><p>Let me explain. When the directors at blizzard get told "EB just ordered 100,000 copies", the directors say "make them and get the staff needed to manage them". It doesn't take long to fill the order. It takes a lot longer to advertise, interview, select and train new staff.</p><p></p><p>Duncan</p><p>(Orc Warrior 34, Tauren Shaman 23, Undead Rogue 18, Troll Mage 12 on Elune)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Duncan Haldane, post: 1980943, member: 514"] I've been playing WoW since the day of it's release. I had nearly four weeks holiday in that time, during which I played a LOT. Anyway, I'm logging in from Australia. My typical time is about 500ms. I use broadband. I play mostly a horde character on a medium population server. I rarely have any noticable lag. Admitidly I'm mostly on a quieter times, but even so, distance makes up for a lot of that. I have found a bit of an issue if I quickly fly from one city to another, where I tend to get drastically slow response. I believe this is because it's not forgetting all the people in the city I was in, and is also adding all the ones in the city I've gone to. If it's bad I log off and back in and it's sorted out. I think that Blizzard should contact guild owners on heavily populated servers and ask if they would be prepared to move their guild to a low pop. server. There could even be some kind of enducement for them if the guild accepts. This would allow a fair amount of balancing for the server populations, without expecting players to start over. As for whether blizzard should have anticipated all of this use of their game, I believe they have been desperately trying to bring new servers on, but also need to train new GMs at the same time. While they did know how many copies were being sold, it sold out far faster than anticipated, and they were understaffed for it. Let me explain. When the directors at blizzard get told "EB just ordered 100,000 copies", the directors say "make them and get the staff needed to manage them". It doesn't take long to fill the order. It takes a lot longer to advertise, interview, select and train new staff. Duncan (Orc Warrior 34, Tauren Shaman 23, Undead Rogue 18, Troll Mage 12 on Elune) [/QUOTE]
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