[Have the people that are complaining about queues been a part of ANY major MMO launch]

Congrats on making my pick of the day for ridiculous and ill-researched posts!

 

The guild sign up has worked because all those guilds who got to know each other pre-launch (The Guilded Cantina thread was great fun) are now with all their cohorts. Good for the game and for the atmosphere. They have not been "crammed" onto the same server. They have populated servers in the full knowledge that many will drop out before a month has passed, and that there will always be much higher waits in the first few weeks.

 

All your whining and moaning will fade into obscurity within a month. And no, before you say it, they don't care if you walk away during that time because you're throwing your toys out of the pram. You will be one of their attrition numbers who mean the servers are then well populated for everyone else, and I'd honestly be surprised if having forked out on the game you walk away for more than a couple of months till friends etc all say it's a great game, come back, etc etc.

 

People are fickle. They know this. What they don't want are a hundred servers all populated with 50 people in six month's time. That really would kill the game for them.

 

Oh, and LoTRO did have some fairly long waits at times upon launch, but I was on an EU RP server which remained comfortable for the whole launch period. Never waited more than 10 mins I think.

 

 

 

and again you're missing the point!

 

Even with the guild signup designed to get guilds playing together that know each other they had enough information to distribute those clusters evenly across servers. You surely don't want to tell me that the whole server population of Red Eclipse is in guilds that have applied as being affilliated?

[Those with early guild signup have been shafted]

Those taking part in early access/guild signup have been shafted.

 

Who at Bioware had the brilliant idea to seemingly put a big chunk of those bothering to go through the guild signup onto the same server ? (The Red Eclipse in our case)

 

I mean how hard can it be - you have information about guilds signing up...and then you can't even distribute those equally across the servers, in the end punishing those who went along with your cunning plan. This was obvious when we were still in early access and had english pve servers with 1.5 hours queue whilst others were at standard or high load.

 

 

Someone at Bioware has ****ed up big time

[Have the people that are complaining about queues been a part of ANY major MMO launch]

You have no idea what your talking about !

 

Of course previous launches had queues, but Bioware went through a big exercise in having guild sign up early, letting people in in waves, etc etc.

 

.....only to seemingly cram up all those who had gone through the bother of the guild signup/early access onto the same server (Red Eclipse in our case) whilst other english pve servers remained at lower population.

 

So what may have been well intentioned and different from Bioware was in the end ****ed up big time...thats the difference