My first expansion experience, should I expect long queues and down time?

[OhnoozeMyToes]

I'm just curious. I mean I get a queue to log in now from time to time so I'm assuming it's going to be nasty when shadow bringers launches.

What's it been like in the past and why are there queues now at the end of an expansion weeks before the new one launches? Typically an mmo is slow before an expansion.

[Cincierta]

Edit: I really should get coffee going before looking at forums.

[OhnoozeMyToes]

It mostly depends on what you're queuing for and what class/job, and what time of day you're queuing on.

Typically tanks and healers have much faster queue times compared to dps, though if you're trying to queue up solo for the msq it'll be a wait. Make popcorn while you wait on the timer.

I'm talking about servers.

[Cincierta]

I'm talking about servers.

Don't mind me, I only got up about 10 minutes ago.

But yeah, it'll get worse once we get the expansion in.

[Arazehl]

Early access people are like beta testers when it comes down to it. Hopefully Yoshi P and the devs learned a lot from last expansion's Early Access. It won't be flawless this time, but let's hope that the bottlenecks are few and far between where it concerns the queue.

[Crystal_Raven]

Expect the servers to potato at least a few times during the first 24 hours, max 48 hours.

After that it's usually fine.

I'm speaking from experience with SE and a lot of other MMOs. After a new expansion release, server usually fails a couple of times, then maintenance, long login times, lag, crashes, disconnects. It's pretty hectic at the start.

It chills out after 48 hours max though. Never seen any MMO take longer than 48 hours to chill.

[galbsadi]

Expect the servers to potato at least a few times during the first 24 hours, max 48 hours.

After that it's usually fine.

I'm speaking from experience with SE and a lot of other MMOs. After a new expansion release, server usually fails a couple of times, then maintenance, long login times, lag, crashes, disconnects. It's pretty hectic at the start.

It chills out after 48 hours max though. Never seen any MMO take longer than 48 hours to chill.

Oh you young soul.

I've never seen this game take longer than 48h to chill...but I remember servers on certain other games going down as long as a week.

[Crystal_Raven]

Oh you young soul.

I've never seen this game take longer than 48h to chill...but I remember servers on certain other games going down as long as a week.

Man some years back, and by some I mean over 10, I remember playing an MMO I won't name for obvious reasons, but the servers went down for maintenance for a huge patch, like what SE is doing. Servers came back up...all good so far, went down in 5 minutes.

They were down for 2 weeks before they were brought back up. Developers didn't give anyone any sort of compensation.

The playerbased tanked incredibly hard because of that. The game is still live which is why I'm not mentioning it, but it's pretty dead. It all went downhill from that one patch that failed badly.

[linay]

They just reclassified Ultros and 7 other NA servers as Congested World. That's a lot of congested worlds.

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[StouterTaru]

ARR was brutal, everyone stayed logged in because it took 15+ minutes to get into the game. I don't think I ever had to wait more than a few minutes for HW and SB, except when the servers were failing and needed a fix/reboot.