Quote Originally Posted by hunkygladiator View Post
This has never happened at this alarming frequency in HW, SB, and even ShB.
Spoiler alert; none of those expansions were hit by player counts as high as EW has, or introduced as many massive changing systems like EW's lottery or DC travel.

Remember when World Visit was first implemented in SHB and people were stranded for a while due to the system breaking down under congestion? or when they first implemented Cross-World PF around HW-SB and the DF queue randomly broke down 2-3 times wile they ironed out kinks? Massive game changing systems will almost always have bugs or unexpected results on the live versions. You can do all the stress testing you want in the dev environment, but the pure anarchy and chaos that is free will of people can create scenarios you never expected.

Like every other major implementation of a massive system change throughout this entire game's lifespan, it's gonna be hiccupy. History has given empirical data to expect it to be rough initially.