Should the launch have been delayed? What else could be done?

[Amarande]

Should have limited the game sell and subscriber count you don't take new client if you know that you will not be able to serve them. You don't sell 200k ticket for a show where you can only fit 100k.

Should have discouraged long game sessions somehow, honestly (Idk how, maybe something like the stamina or lives systems gachas and mobile games use, but that has its own issues).

The big problem right now is that once you're logged on, there's no incentive to log out in a reasonable period, and every incentive not to. And any reasonable schema to kick people trying to hold a seat while idle fails as people find a way to game it that can't readily be countered without also kicking people in the middle of activity.

The Diablo II remaster had what was actually virtually the exact same problems as EW: queues moved glacially, with involuntary queue drops seeming to outnumber actually being let out of the queue into game. As with EW, people quickly found ways to avoid any kind of boot short of a server-glitch DC. (As simply being in a game session in D2R protected you from any kind of timeout, people even created games bald-facedly named as a place to idle overnight so they did not have to log back in in the morning. Didn't really help mind you that US morning = Asia peak time and the D2R login server was global - making it nearly impossible to get on in the mornings in NA - but still.)

People dislike this idea, but look it at another way, RN it's pretty much like if rides at Disney World asked you if you'd like to go again when you finished, and gave go-agains priority, so that people only got invited out of the line into the ride AFTER accommodating people entering for a repeat run. I can only imagine the violent crime rate in Florida would rise tenfold in an eyeblink if they actually implemented that, right?

[ForteNightshade]

Should have discouraged long game sessions somehow, honestly (Idk how, maybe something like the stamina or lives systems gachas and mobile games use, but that has its own issues).

A system which would be so universally despised it would likely cause them a worse PR scenario than they have now. Such a system wouldn't even be fair due to the differing availabilities some people have. A person with only a few hours in the evening to play wouldn't use up their allotted "stamina" while someone who took time off would be essentially forced out of the game at such and such a time. In fact, it may cause further issues as now players who would otherwise rush can't stay in the game and are being forced to delay their progression.