WoW: Wrath Of The Lich King Classic's Pre-Patch Has Been Plagued By Massive Server Queues
The recent arrival of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic's pre-patch on August 30 has not been without drama, as players for the last week have been forced to endure massive server login queues and what seem to be unjustified bans.
Many of Wrath of the Lich King Classic's servers are listed as heavily populated or full, and that's resulting in some lengthy server queues during peak playtimes, like last weekend. One post on the WoW Classic subreddit shows a wait time of 343 minutes (over five hours) on one full server, Grobbulus. While that's an extreme example, queues ranging from 20 minutes to several hours is the new normal on many of the game's most populated servers, much to the community's frustration.
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The cruel reality is that while the pre-patch does bring class revamps, a new profession, a pre-expansion Scourge Invasion event, and the ability to play as the new Death Knight class, the actual bulk of the expansion (like the continent of Northrend) won't arrive until September 26. That means server queue times may only get worse as the Scourge Invasion event ramps up in the weeks ahead, to say nothing of the actual expansion's release. Wrath of the Lich King is widely regarded as the most popular expansion in the almost 20-year history of Blizzard's MMORPG, so it seems likely even more players will be looking to play in the coming weeks, further amplifying server queue issues. Blizzard is offering free
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