Sincere Recommendation: Accept you will not be able to play, walk away for a while

Huge fan of the game, was able to get in every early in the AM but logged out cause I had to work, seriously annoyed :mad: Consider the boundary conditions of the login problem:

1. More product has been sold than can be delivered.
2. Infrastructure improvements to help deliver the oversold product is not possible due to supply chain issues.
3. Competition to log in will only increase immediately after early access.
4. To avoid queues, players will not log out. Auto logout is easily bypassed by staying in dialogue with an NPC, auto running into a wall (not tested), macro keys, etc.

The situation will not improve anytime soon. By no means am I supporting that this is an acceptable or excusable situation. I am making an appeal to fellow fans who are getting frustrated by waiting and waiting to get in. Don't do it, your time is too valuable.

Selling a product and then effectively saying, "by the way there will be issues with providing what we sold you but hey we warned you" is a morally bankrupt way to conduct business. Clearly, commercial interests and bottom line sales were prioritized. Apologies are a cheap way to make money, they don't cost anything.

If you are frustrated, walk away, there is no solution. Don't waste your valuable free time and energy friends. Come back and enjoy the game another day ... week?

(Oh shoot I'm queue number 690?! LOL!!!)

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Originally Posted by Hite

Huge fan of the game, was able to get in every early in the AM but logged out cause I had to work, seriously annoyed :mad: Consider the boundary conditions of the login problem:

1. More product has been sold than can be delivered.
2. Infrastructure improvements to help deliver the oversold product is not possible due to supply chain issues.
3. Competition to log in will only increase immediately after early access.
4. To avoid queues, players will not log out. Auto logout is easily bypassed by staying in dialogue with an NPC, auto running into a wall (not tested), macro keys, etc.

The situation will not improve anytime soon. By no means am I supporting that this is an acceptable or excusable situation. I am making an appeal to fellow fans who are getting frustrated by waiting and waiting to get in. Don't do it, your time is too valuable.

Selling a product and then effectively saying, "by the way there will be issues with providing what we sold you but hey we warned you" is a morally bankrupt way to conduct business. Clearly, commercial interests and bottom line sales were prioritized. Apologies are a cheap way to make money, they don't cost anything.

If you are frustrated, walk away, there is no solution. Don't waste your valuable free time and energy friends. Come back and enjoy the game another day ... week?

(Oh shoot I'm queue number 690?! LOL!!!)

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Ehhhhh......I'm going with at least a month. :)

from what i heard, the usual circumvention like talking to npc, busy, hud, and crafting no longer work. havent tried running into wall yet

But I have no issues logging on and playing on my server.

Only takes me a couple minutes to get in.

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Originally Posted by Hite

Selling a product and then effectively saying, "by the way there will be issues with providing what we sold you but hey we warned you" is a morally bankrupt way to conduct business. Clearly, commercial interests and bottom line sales were prioritized. Apologies are a cheap way to make money, they don't cost anything.

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That was very well said.

The big issue is going to be raiding, with the premium this game places on getting there right from the start ...

So pretty much endgame participation will be a lottery then, luck of getting enough good queues or having a WFH job so you can just semi-idle all day or you'll be too far behind to be considered by the time you do limp into endgame? That's what it's starting to look like to me at least.

And now that I actually have Tuesdays off, I might've been in a decent position to give Savage another whirl :(

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Originally Posted by Tanis_Ebonhart

But I have no issues logging on and playing on my server.

Only takes me a couple minutes to get in.

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Took me 2.5 hours to log into Zal earlier. So no OUR server is not always that great.

Returning player after about 6 years here. I tried to log in at 2:45pm CST with a 3.5K queue... waited 2+ hours with 500ish more to go. Then 2002 hit which kicked me & I lost my place in line. The second attempt queue was 6K waited again & at 4.5K got another 2002. From there it took 8 logins attempts from the client just to reach the queue that was now at 7.5K. Tried to get a refund, but the payment was processed yesterday & thanks to their ToS they don't have to give me my money back. While my $15 bucks it's that much money it's all the other $15 buck the millions of other players are losing out on that is pissing me off. They should give back anyone's sub fee who asks until this bull crap is fixed.

Yesterday evening i tried to log in at 10,30 pm CET, i had a queue of 6500+ and gave up after 1 hour (i have to work today). Since i have started playing the game, this is my first new expansion launch experience, for how long should i expect this kind of situation? I mean, i can play for 2-3 hours in the evening during week days, 2 hours queues are simply not feasible for me, will this really last for a month?

Well from what I've been reading more people than ever in the history of the game are trying to log in, but they didn't add any new servers & now they can't buy anymore. It's a cop-out though because they should've bought some right as covid hit since they knew more money was on the horizon just from people having nothing to do not to mention their expansion being only a year or so away... it's not like they already had BILLIONS of dollars sitting around or anything... nope SE just runs on bare-bones... lul.