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Originally Posted by Saint
Its not blizzards fault that there are queues there are masses of almost empty servers but since all the new players want to play with their friends or want to play on the busy servers it maxes them out.
And when the game becomes as popular as wow queues are bound to happen. I dont even think blizzard were ready even if they over estimated the number of they might get if they were lucky.
And if huxley happens to become succesful then they'll probably have the same thing eventually unless after a certain point they prevent people from starting characters on the server. But then you get the problem that people cant play with their friends.
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Actually that's just about 100% wrong. It is completely blizzard's fault for using the minimum hardware that they can get away with, and as people here have shown they'll put up with most anything, whether it's necessary or not. Blizzard makes an obscene amount of money from WoW, but they let it go to profits instead of improving their services, they've done this time and again. They pump out a great game, then give no service or the bare minimum.
If you want a good example of what is possible for hardware, check out Eve-Online run by CCP. Recently they upgraded their hardware yet again. Over 20,000 people in their server, since beta there's not been any ques. They have used their profits to upgrade their hardware, reduce lag and upgrade the engine. They are currently planning on replacing the entire engine with a new and better one to improve gameplay as well.
There's no reason that WoW should have ques, or have the lag it does. Blizzard is just being cheap like they always are and milking the game for what it's worth, and people put up with it.