Stable Servers!

[JawaJoose]

I gotta say this was a smoooooth launch. I've been logged in for nearly 17 hours and didn't get disconnected once.

Back in the BC and WotLK days we would be getting DC'd every couple hours.

Good work!

[MsQi]

I gotta say this was a smoooooth launch. I've been logged in for nearly 17 hours and didn't get disconnected once.

Back in the BC and WotLK days we would be getting DC'd every couple hours.

Good work!

That is probably a result of them scheduling 24 hour maintenances to begin with, which I must commend them for. Wow would be all "let's do an 8 hour maintenance" for an expansion and then bring it up and see what happens, oops a server died. back down for two hours and try again. I'm assuming SE does more checks and tests during that time? The couple times I've been in it seemed pretty good. However when you get a long queue you're likely to get kicked.

[Minsue]

Yeah once in hit a few bits of server lag for like a split second or two but considering the strain servers are under I'll take my two second blips I had while playing

[Myrany]

I gotta say this was a smoooooth launch. I've been logged in for nearly 17 hours and didn't get disconnected once.

Back in the BC and WotLK days we would be getting DC'd every couple hours.

Good work!

I was there for both BC and WotLK launches. You are being generous. I remember crashing out every 10-15 minutes and kneeling to collect loot from a mob so long it respawned and kicked my butt while I was helpless because I couldn't move. LOL

[Kes13a]

yeah, those were bad.

once in everything seems very stable, have not had any issues yet playing. which is a very nice change from a majority of launches

[Succubusty]

Login queues aside, at least the servers are fairly stable. It would suck to have to wait in line to get on for 2 hours only to get d/c'd by something outside of your control lol.

[Hasrat]

It's definitely improved over time, too. Might be remembering wrong, but I'm sure we had our own share of servers dying left and right on previous expansions.

Back in the day, we could always count on Balmung players to make all the same complaints about long queues and crashes.

[XplicitX]

Great!!! Stable when you log in, but that takes hours if you're lucky... looks like I can only hope to get in after 12am or so my time. I just spent 10 hours with up to 6.5K in the queue which as bad as that was then the 2002 errors kicked in every 1-2 hours & would reset the whole process. This is just early access so just wait till oh I don't know a few million extra people try to log in another day from now.

[Hasrat]

This is just early access so just wait till oh I don't know a few million extra people try to log in another day from now.

Players that do not have early access are still able to play.

Will full release have an extra bump in players? Probably. "A few million extra?" Please.

Early access launch day is always the rockiest. These doom-n-gloom posts are a perennial thing every expansion.

[XplicitX]

So you think the WoW exodus & the lack of servers they could've bought before covid hit won't affect the state of the game? I mean more people than ever in the recorded history of the game are trying to log in right now, but there hasn't been a new server added since 2019. The supply chain issue didn't happen overnight so don't tell me SE couldn't have swiped some up asap especially since they knew more money was heading their way via more people being stuck at home & their new expansion being only a year away. It's not they have BILLIONS of dollars or anything.