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fwank2k9
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So according to the patch notes they are going to fix it so you have a correct value for your place in queue. Rejoice, you will now know exactly how many people are ahead of you, and they are adding buttons so you can play with the gateway while you wait. But they are not doing anything to cut the wait time down. So, apparently the biggest issue we all had with the queue was fluctuating numbers, the 2 hour wait was ok. Or are they considering this a great selling point for those last few days the founder's pack is available, "Hey, 2 hour wait time, or spend more money."
I paid $60.00 after BW2 to play a game I'd looked forward to for at least a year, excited to have a cool horse and a dire wolf, I'm not a fan of Drow or Spiders, no plan to spend any more money, but I feel like I'm being held hostage suddenly by a Drow riding a spider carrying a sign that says "No Entry to Non-Drow!" (That's a heck of a run-on)
There have been other games with bad queues, and what they did was adjust their servers to get rid of the queue. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth to get up this morning with a couple hours to go before the downtime and never get into the game. Sure it's still Beta, sure it's a new game and they have to sort things out, but it feels like what they are sorting is how to make the most money they can from all the players who would simply like to enjoy their product. And I get that too, but I'm not going to like it.
Fix the queue, I don't care if it tells me I have 430 million people ahead of me, if I get to play before I've finished a pot of coffee waiting. As it stands right now I expect next patch they are going to announce the game will now send text alerts to let you know when you can play. For a fee.
I paid $60.00 after BW2 to play a game I'd looked forward to for at least a year, excited to have a cool horse and a dire wolf, I'm not a fan of Drow or Spiders, no plan to spend any more money, but I feel like I'm being held hostage suddenly by a Drow riding a spider carrying a sign that says "No Entry to Non-Drow!" (That's a heck of a run-on)
There have been other games with bad queues, and what they did was adjust their servers to get rid of the queue. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth to get up this morning with a couple hours to go before the downtime and never get into the game. Sure it's still Beta, sure it's a new game and they have to sort things out, but it feels like what they are sorting is how to make the most money they can from all the players who would simply like to enjoy their product. And I get that too, but I'm not going to like it.
Fix the queue, I don't care if it tells me I have 430 million people ahead of me, if I get to play before I've finished a pot of coffee waiting. As it stands right now I expect next patch they are going to announce the game will now send text alerts to let you know when you can play. For a fee.
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PS Yes - supportin MORE players means LESS queue!
Honestly, you're complaining about a business model. As long as they have queues, people will wait in them, and those that don't want to wait will more than likely pay up.
They could get rid of the queues if they wanted to, but for now they're a cash cow and they have no reason to get rid of them. <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> of some free to play players with a bit of a wait the first week and make a bunch of money, or increase costs considerably for zero gain just to please some people that aren't giving them anything in return.
Except he is pointing out that they don't say they are raising the que limit that THEY set. His point is they set the limit and he feels they set it very LOW to get more people to buy the $200 pack.....
Pessimist = they wont adjust the que limit for a couple days to get more money.
Optimist = they said they can support more so they will of course set the limit much higher and ques will go away, even though they did not say it.
Like now! Maintenance is happening so Im watching movies and catching up on my Nook reading
Every game has a queue. Sometimes you see it and sometimes you don't. Queue's are normally able to handle dozens-hundreds of logins per second so most times you won't even know they exist.
However in the case of Neverwinter's Launch the queue's themselves had an error. The shards weren't at maximum capacity.
This should be improved with the patch coming out an hour from now.
So basically the Q itself had an error where it was not filling the servers up. Yeah we may still have a Q, but I doubt it will be anywhere near as long as it was. On top of the fact they are addressing server capacity, so more people will be able to log in and fill the servers before the Q even has to pop up.
Link to the post - http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?171071-Q-why-is-that/page2
You seem to read only what you want to read. Also in these patch notes they have improved netcode and can handle more people on the server.
I am a 60$ player as well, remember this is still in beta. You paid to get into the BETA early and a 40$ horse.
The queue will get shorter as time goes, every game that I have encountered a queue is usually soon after release and goes away or gets shorter in due time.
BETA BETA BETA, quit your **** crying already.
How is adding more people to the server not addressing queue times? i would say those are the same issues.
Here's the thing witht the Queue's and the 'perk' of being able to skip the line. And Planetside 2 shows this as a fact in practice. The people who pay the 200$ 'soely' for the perk of skipping queue lines, are buying a 'temporary' perk. Termporary not because the Dev's will remove that perk later on,but because at some point, nomater how much Perfect World wants to NOT do it, they WILL have to open up more servers. They will have to do it, or risk Neverwinter Tanking when the people who 'would have' spent $ on cash-shop eye-candy and boosts (the stuff that pays for the game and their paychecks) yet are unable to do so due to 4 hour lines just to get into the game, decide to leave the game and never come back.
This means that a week, or a month, after 'launch' (im not going to count open beta in this, as there ARE people who never plan to play past launch, but are in the 'open beta' simply because its a beta), We will start to see new servers pop up, or the servers will be upgraded so that more 'shards' can be ran at once. This means those Queue's will go away and that perk will then be useless as there will be no line to skip ahead of, or if there is a line, it'll be a few minuets, not 'hours'.
PS2 had this happen to it. At launch, there were up to 1 hour 'waits' just to change continents. 2 months later, at MOST you're waiting 10 minutes (excluding when an 'alert' happens and every franken person in the game is trying to go to the same place. Those wait times for the alerts were engineered by the Dev's, so don't count in this instance). So, those of us paying a 'sub' to help support the game, get 500 station cash every month, + have the ability to 'jump' the line and have our own high-speed 'prefered' line instead, are only really getting the station-cash as our 'reward' as we hardly ever see the actual 'queue' anymore.
Good thing that the nonsense has come to light sooner rather than later.
you expect big things from both Cryptic and PWE. you must be new to ****ty MMORPG companies.
I can speak for EU players (despite not being one) - Cryptic ALWAYS patches at this 7am-8am PST (server time) window. Sorry.
At the moment i would login around 8 pm and would be able to play around 2 o'clock in the night (if the whole thing doesn't throw me out, because i am blocking the queue for too long!).
Do people honestly forget Blizzard almost does downtime during the same time, and twice the time they're doing it today. Blizzard usually goes from 5am-11am pst. Not to mention the multiple times their maintenance has overextended by hours. How do you expect a company to choose the perfect time between timezones split by 5-6 hours. It just isn't going to happen, so deal with it. They have to do maintenance at some point. Good lord. Can people stop being so self-entitled and just give it a break.