If you tried to play a new release - ANY new release - last week, we're so sorry. We hope you instead found some other activity to fill your time, like reading a book or running or talking to your poor neglected loved one. Nearly every game launched last week needed (and in some cases, still needs) major patching to get things working properly. Even World of Warcraft.
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Warlords of Draenor came out on Thursday and was immediately besieged with long queue lines and other gameplay issues: lag, poor performance and a frightening DDOS attack in the early hours of the launch. The European server was taken offline for five hours to rush in fixes and patches have been coming every day since launch.
Any day one launch of a huge title is going to be beset with some issues. What is surprising is that Blizzard was hit the hardest. Warcraft has been around for ten years, and you don't get to be the best by offering spotty service. Hopefully, it was a blip on the radar for the venerable games company.
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But they still feel terrible about the subpar launch. After all, releasing a game on Thursday means you want your customers to play it on the weekend, and many couldn't. Executive Producer J. Allen Brack posted an official apology in the official WoW forums yesterday.
Addressing the poor queue time wait periods, he says "we've expanded the new instancing tech we used to improve queues on Saturday and we're continuing the process of applying that to raise the capacity of all realms again. This will result in approximately double the prelaunch capacity on each realm, which should greatly reduce queue times for most realms if not eliminate queues altogether."
Getting on will be easier! But it does not end there. "In recognition of the difficulties so many of you ran into when trying to play over the first few days, we're adding five days' worth of extra time to every subscription in the Americas, Oceania, and Europe that was active as of Friday, November 14."
Five free days of playtime. It's an olive branch, but an effective one at that. I'll take it.
"Things are already in a much better place than they were going into the weekend, so I hope you'll now be able to focus on having a ton of fun with this expansion."
Warlords of Draenor is a little less buggy now so come on back to Azeroth.
Now, how about Assassin's Creed Unity?
