Aerinyes

It will discourage people but I don't think that alone will be the reason for people quitting. It certainly has grown in popularity, that is undeniable, but it is far too early to ask them to invest in another server that may be temporary. I'm sure they have been debating it all week internally and trying to get a grasp on the situation as a lot of people jump to conclusions looking to numbers that are inflated and not accurately portraying the situation. And trying to guess what happens in the future is always a slippery prospect.

I don't think that's true in the slightest. I think if the queues didn't exist we could still expect only 20% or so of the people who start characters to actually reach end game in vanilla. That 20% is probably even an optimistic estimation. I think splitting it into two servers will fix the problem now but create two underpopulated realms in the next month or so.

I don't think the problem with persist into raiding except for the most hardcore/lucky players that were able to hit 60 very quickly, it could pretty confidently be said that almost half of the people currently or even more will probably quit within the first month.

It is more than just 2k slots you also have to consider that the queue is taking so long that people are starting it before they leave for work etc and that takes tons of spots in queue as well when they aren't even there either. Even on a healthy server with no queues there are probably three times the number of players on the server than its population cap. Now the reason that works is that there are prime times for people in different time zones and work schedules and everyone gets their piece of the pie. When a queue can take 6 to eight hours you start getting overlapping player bases trying to set themselves up for getting into the server and you see these large numbers that people think requires another server. We don't need another server we need to try and get the queues down. The effect of the number of people that aren't actually playing but are logged or trying to log in is inflating and exacerbating the issue. I would bet that we could get queues down to a reasonable 30min or so. Now that is all easier said than done because people don't listen/care or have any interest in cooperating with stuff like that.

The problem is that the numbers look inflated, I assure you the reason the queue is so bad is because when people do get into the server, they don't leave it, they afk while they sleep and work so they can jump right back in when they get home. If they had the server on a reset timer every 4 hours or so we could boot those people and I would say that at most you'd get like 30min queues of actual people playing versus those waiting.

I went from 3k in line to 10k so you're not the only one who gets the random DC from queue.

Was at 8k when I woke up, sat until I got to 3k, then I got kicked out of the queue somehow and now I'm at 10000. RIP. People need to log off when they are done, would really alleviate the problem. Or restart the server and boot them all.

I would say that the vast majority of the queue problem is that a large chunk of the playing slots are filled by people trying to avoid the queue and sitting afk for 10+ hours until they are ready to play again, overnight etc. If everyone logged out after they were done playing we would probably be seeing much more reasonable queue times like 30min or less. Now that being said getting everyone to cooperate at the same time is a difficult thing to do. I would say the best bet for now to fight this would be for the team to put the server on a like 3-4 hour sever reset window so that these players will get kicked out allowing room for people who want to actually be playing at the time.