WoW Classic players facing 6 hour queue times to get into the game's biggest servers

pcgamer.com:

Players trying to get into World of Warcraft Classic's more popular servers have found themselves faced with queues of tens of thousands and wait times measured in hours, as Blizzard's classic MMO gears up for the release of Wrath Of The Lich King on September 26(opens in new tab). Yes: it's just like the good old days.

The queues, VG247 reports(opens in new tab), are primarily affecting WoW's so-called «megaservers,» high-population servers that have a tendency to snowball as they accumulate more and more players. More players means more PvP opportunities, more roleplaying, more community and social aspects, so their high population begets more population which begets, well, very long queues.

Players on the subreddit for Grobbulus—the North American PvPRP server—have been amusing themselves by one-upping each other with their queue times while they wait to gain access to the game. When you're faced with the necessity of waiting nearly six hours(opens in new tab) to actually get into the game, I suppose it becomes necessary to find some way to keep yourself occupied.

It's not just megaservers like Grobbulus that have run into problems, though. Fresh servers—which give everyone the opportunity to start, ahem, afresh  without bringing their pre-existing equipment and wealth into the game—have also been throwing up agonisingly long queues(opens in new tab) in the run-up to Lich King's release.

It's not all on Blizzard. As one person waiting in line for Grobbulus pointed out(opens in new tab), if everyone currently in the same queue transferred over to a different, emptier server, that server would instantly have a healthy community all by itself. Many players have an option to freely transfer over to different servers if