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I’m currently stuck in the Warcraft queue. Still 30 minutes to go, or so says the login timer, and tonight is my guild’s Molten Core clear. Choo choo, climb aboard the loot train, all of that.
Here’s the thing tho. I don’t really need anything from Molten Core anymore, haven’t for quite a while. My guild, God bless ’em, gives out DKP to those in the raid and to those that didn’t make it in time for an invite to the Lucky 40. You’re online and technically available to raid, you get DKP, no questions asked.
You see the beauty here — I’d earn DKP just for sitting on my ass looking through the Auction House all night.
Heh, these are the things they don’t teach you in MMO school or in MMO books.
I will never understand why people are willing to wait in a queue to play an MMO. I play EQ2 and if I ever had to wait in queue, I would cancel my subscription.
I frankly don’t understand it myself.
How did it come to this? I have left better games over less.
Discuss.
my pet theory is that nothing else on the market is comparable.
The other games are so much worse that even waiting in queue once in a while (only sunday afternoon on my server though) is preferreble to playing them.
I find the game very enjoyable, so I tolerate the wait, but queues and performance are my two biggest problems with the game. I also think that people have so much invested in their characters, and enjoy their online relationships so much, that they’re willing to put up with quite a bit of inconvenience.
On a related note, has anyone else noticed that if you’re booted from the game you’re not necessarily forced to sit throught the queue again? I don’t know exactly when it started happening, but if I’m booted for any reason, I can usually log back in withing ~5 minutes or so and not have to sit through queue.
I think that put simply, if you are paying a monthly fee on top of the retail price of the game, the company that provides the game, should not force anyone to wait in line for access to a service that they pay monthly for. I know some people may put this akin to paying for admission to an amusement park then still having to wait in line for a ride, but really it is quite different. You are subscribed as a customer, they should be able to estimate the load that their service can deliver and with that information expand the delivery method to accomodate those new subscribers to the service.
I completly understand downtimes, and upgrades but if you pay a monthly fee and that service is not in repair, the subscriber should always have access to it without a wait.
Again this is just my opinion, and I don’t think I would feel that way if the subscription model was something like Guildwars, etc where there was no monthly fee. I am also not a huge wowhater or anything, I do enjoy EQ2 far more, but if it were a role reversal and I loved WoW, I still would not stand for being queued to get into the game.
Queue’s blow my flaccid epeen, their infrastructure is completely out of sync and I have no idea if Blizzard will be able to ever fix it. Every night is the equivalent to a patch day in another mmog, they’ve gone to great lengths to try and prevent an influx of players flooding the higher populated servers and have over a hundred servers to deal with, it’s pandemonium. Blizzard even stopped selling WoW over in Europe for a short period of time the stress on those servers were too much. I’d rather put up with the shit than have zero access, but yea, it’s frustrating. Suggest another game the offers the accessibility via increments that WoW offers and which isn’t run by vile fuckwads who repeatedly azz rape their userbase.