This type of crap really get's me going. Had issues getting a number for pre-orders? Umm yeah.
I did NOT have a good experience during the open beta, which was one of the shortest in history. Others had issues as well that created log in issues for them. What you are missing is that they didn't have a contingency plan at the time of launch. Wow was spinning up new servers at a high rate, I stated on one server then moved to another server.
The reality is that this launch was predictable. They simply did not do enough testing. Because others had issues does not give these guys the benefit of the doubt, since we are a week into these issues and it is not getting better. Actually today has been worse than it has all week.
They have no communicated a real plan to the user base. They create error conditions that cause the client to close. They create a message that says you can't log in, try when it isn't so busy (thx bye). The message is idiotic as there is no way to know (well other than you already know it's full).
Their only resolution to this point is to reduce the number of current logins to create stability for those that are lucky enough to get in. How are you supposed to decide if you want to active your subscription with these issues?
Now on to something else. What fix was the OP talking about? Is there somewhere with patch notes or something? My guess is there hasn't been a "fix" and the OP is just confused. But I've been know to get wrong.
To the community. This is NOT how you handle QA and beta's before launch. It is certainly not how you handle contingencies at launch. That they have went this long without doing anything meaningful is a huge black mark on this company.
As I write this, the client teases me with a loading screen and then I get a lobby error and the client closes. That is the kind of nonsense I am talking about. Now I have to go back into the launcher and log back in.
One frigging thing they could do that might be fairly easy. Don't try and get the entire friggin server list for both regions which bring up your characters from your last login server. That seems to be a lot of unnessary traffic as thousands of people attempt to log in over and over and over. Not to mention I wouldn't get some idiotic delay at it tries to bring up the JP server list in the background. Query the damn preferred server unless you get the world button.
