WoW - Unplayable due to lag
Well I got my copy of WoW ysterday and since I had the day off decided to give it a bash.
for the past 5 hours I have struggled with three seperate characters on three seperate realms - the lag was absolutely pathetic.
I was dropped off servers on more than one occasion and sat frozen for more than 10to 15 minutes at other times.
Many of the other players around me groaned and moaned about it - others said "wait and it will get better"
For a 1st impression/user experience it was woeful - I currently can't connect as it thinks I am still logged in (I have been waiting over 30min)
The support forums offer little in the way of explanation or timing for a fix
Will wait awhile and see if this lag issue is resolved but in it's current state the game is a complete flop and not worth the money I paid.
for the past 5 hours I have struggled with three seperate characters on three seperate realms - the lag was absolutely pathetic.
I was dropped off servers on more than one occasion and sat frozen for more than 10to 15 minutes at other times.
Many of the other players around me groaned and moaned about it - others said "wait and it will get better"
For a 1st impression/user experience it was woeful - I currently can't connect as it thinks I am still logged in (I have been waiting over 30min)
The support forums offer little in the way of explanation or timing for a fix
Will wait awhile and see if this lag issue is resolved but in it's current state the game is a complete flop and not worth the money I paid.
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You can't tell me that you didn't expect it with an excess of 500,000 beta players. While lag sucks, I can scarcely sympathize as I knew it would happen, and have waited to buy it as a result. I knew servers would be jammed, I knew login servers would be hammered, and I knew people would be flooding the game.
The fix? Time and server maintenance. Just wait it out. You're not paying monthly for a game that'll be like this forever. Patience is a virtue.
WoW has been hyped in Australia, and they made a big "noise" about it being released here simultaniously with the USA but alas there are no Oceana servers.
The the Australian gamers network we have put unofficail claim on two of the Pacific servers Blackrock and Proudmore so I guess when they come back up I'll start creating some chars on those so I have at least people in my time zone playing
When I use to play Asherons call I often found myself almost alone on a server as all the USA players where in bed or at work/school
anyhow - will see if these server downs help with the lag
As for a "successfull launch" I'll wait and see if they can make this playable before I make my decision
Its a successful launch in the sense that tons of people are playing; its unsuccessful in the sense that the servers weren't prepared for such a load.