Login/Queue Suggestion

I don't know how complicated it would be to implement, but players who exit the game without a successful logoff should jump to the front of the queue. DirectX errors, 90ks, whatever the reason, it's terrible to leave a group waiting through a 5k queue. Let's not pretend it's rare, this game can be a completely buggy mess even though I love it. Sound crashes, DX, etc. Especially with raiding coming up soon. There needs to be a retention/recognition of that logoff transaction to let people back in if they try.

PS. I don't post here and won't check the comments, just hope some SE employee passes along some ideas.

An hour ago I tried teleporting to a zone and I got stuck on a loading screen for so long I had to kill the client. The queue to login right now will take four hours to process. There's no reason they can't give players who crash or disconnect temporary priority like they do when dropped mid-queue.

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Originally Posted by Soleras

An hour ago I tried teleporting to a zone and I got stuck on a loading screen for so long I had to kill the client. The queue to login right now will take four hours to process. There's no reason they can't give players who crash or disconnect temporary priority like they do when dropped mid-queue.

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They do, but that priority is super short and temperamental.

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Originally Posted by Soleras

There's no reason they can't give players who crash or disconnect temporary priority like they do when dropped mid-queue.

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If that happened then every person who got kicked out after afking would get instantly logged in, and the queues would be longer.

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Originally Posted by van_arn

They do, but that priority is super short and temperamental.

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No they don't. That's for players in the queue only and it's less than 60 seconds. This was explained in a previous announcement.


They should have a 5 minute grace period to log back in to the game for all players who disconnect, not just the ones in the queue. This is how it is with every other decent mmo. Not only is it the reasonable thing to do for your customers, but it ultimately reduces load on the login server. Right now if a handful of players disconnect from the queue, they are all fighting tooth and nail to get back in asap because they know time's short. With 5 minutes, those reconnections happen at a lower frequency.

Regarding AFKers, the majority will miss their chance to reconnect. They missed all in game game warnings, I have no reason to suspect a disconnect will be treated any different. Either they're there, or they aren't.

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Originally Posted by DamianFatale

If that happened then every person who got kicked out after afking would get instantly logged in, and the queues would be longer.

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Pretty sure the game can differentiate between a crash and an afk timer logging you out. Other MMO's do have grace periods that put you back into the game if you login quick enough from a crash or DC.

As someone who just wanted two hours to get back in after a crash, then within 5 minutes had a USB connection flicker resulting in another crash... I support this suggestion. It's frucking SOUL-CRUSHING to have it happen.

Just happened to me, queued for 2 hours which is as I expected. Joined PoTD and within 2 mins kicked out. Joined a queue of 4k...