Give players 5 mins to reconnect before tossing them into the queue

[Kes13a]

This is standard practice in just about every other MMO popular in NA I think. It's not realistic to fix all disconnects, so this is a nice compromise. WoW's had it since vanilla, but I but doubt the game studios like Blizzard are just being nice. There are some technical benefits such as less strain on their hardware when reconnections are spread out over some time. If there were any downsides I doubt they would do it that way, but if you think of any feel free to share.

since Vanilla you say...

"New Reconnect Button Added to WoW Login Screen in Chains of Domination
posted 2021/06/02 "

I say Vanilla isnt that recent... you can search for that title on the internet if you dont believe...

is it frustrating, yes it is. should they look into doing something, they likely are, development cycles are rarely made public so how do you know they arent looking into it?

Given WoW only did it recently, I imagine its likely coming in some form, but probably after redoing their login servers... which is a way out in the timeline I suspect.

[ehbiwtf]

since Vanilla you say...

"New Reconnect Button Added to WoW Login Screen in Chains of Domination
posted 2021/06/02 "

I say Vanilla isnt that recent... you can search for that title on the internet if you dont believe...

is it frustrating, yes it is. should they look into doing something, they likely are, development cycles are rarely made public so how do you know they arent looking into it?

Given WoW only did it recently, I imagine its likely coming in some form, but probably after redoing their login servers... which is a way out in the timeline I suspect.

If you read the news post from wowhead it's literally just that, a reconnect button added to the client. Before you had two options upon a disconnect, retype login info manually and press connect, or exit the client and open a new one via the launcher which skips having to type that stuff to login.

It's kind of hard to find old blue posts about this stuff. The world servers crashed a lot back in the day. Everybody logs back in at the same time, crash the login server, now nobody else can play. I believe the 5 min grace period was part of a fix to that issue, and it happened early. You're right they might be cooking something like this up and just not telling anyone. Maybe it would be a massive undertaking that would take months I got no clue. Would be difficult for anyone not familiar with their particular setup to gauge that I would think.

Just really disappointing not to see anything else shared in those announcements about what they can do or are doing further out. Focus thus far in that regard seems mainly about the hardware shortage (which nobody can do anything about) and fixing the login server drops, which they nailed I think. Haven't had a queue problem in a long time. Hopefully some more good news is on the horizon, we'll see I suppose.