Randomly disbanding m+ groups happenend on EU-Blackhand three times to us since last sunday, bricking three keys. No reply in the EU technical support forum for over a week, except the green "check your internet connection" default reply.
Lost some loots to those bugs. Opened a ticket to get a "we're not aware of this bug so we won't do anything for you".I miss the times when the support team was really trying to help you :(
This has happened on four raid nights for my guild (Tarren Mill EU) over the last two weeks. I’ve had friends report it happening on Blackhand as well. After the first night it happened we started getting people with alts on other servers to make the raid group. This worked for heroic and our team managed to not disband even when other people were suffering issues. Unfortunately we can’t use that trick on mythic. Even if you’re not suffering from disbands there’s serious lag to the point that raid chat becomes extremely delayed, as do pull timers. We’ve been using rogue shroud countdown for pull timers or just literally counting down on voice. Very fun (!)Dragonflight has been an amazing expansion in many respects, and I definitely prefer this buggy but good expansion over the last couple we’ve had, but it could have really profited from a couple more months of dev time before release.
It's partly because once they announce a release they have, in some countries, a limited time to release it. Perhaps they need to incentivise more players onto the Beta, employ a volume test team/company, and delay the announcements more. That or scale back the scope of a given release.
Server management is hard!
last night, I was on my demon hunter alt, doing quests so I could get to 70. I tried to do the DH leap spell, and immediately disconnected from the game. I couldn't get back in, so I had to use the character stuck service that moves you to a graveyard - and even the webpage for that service was performing severely badly. The other night, I was trying to kill a world rare on my Rogue main, hit killing spree - and... disconnected. Luckily I was able to log back in that time and was able to get my loot off the rare... I won't even go into the numerous times I got disconnected performing dragon-riding stuff across various characters since the xpac released... :(
To this article, I would say welcome to last Sunday :DIn all seriousness though, my personal opinion is that the group disbands and resets have nothing to do with faction imbalance, and have more to do with a server-side process going haywire, kicking last-resort countermeasures into effect (for example, maintaining the playability of the game, in case the instance managing processes are struggling, by disbanding several groups or something similar).Also, an interesting tidbit of information is that, despite the fiasco that last Sunday, and this Wednesday have been, for servers such as TarrenMill EU (on Wednesday, people were also reporting group disbands on EU servers such as Blackrock, Kazzak and others, as well), it seems to not be happening anymore (or happening at a lower scale, disbanding random groups, instead of everyone at the same time).To all the people complaining about how many technical issues there were, I will answer this: Dragonflight has overhauled a lot of old code (such as their UI, and professions tabs), and added a completely new system, which also requires its own (sort of) engine to run. Everything new is bound to have multiple kinks and bugs, which the devs didn't see coming, so - as frustrating as it is to get disconnected because you clipped through a branch while Dragonriding, for example - these moments are part of the baggage that a new system brings.
To CLRic I would say this:Many of the problems that are 'surfacing' with DF were reported again and again by beta testers.There is another problem which most of the WOW sites have somehow managed to not talk about which is stuttering to the extent that the game becomes unplayable, even on very high-end hardware. There have been solitary 'blue posts' on the WOW fora about it then silence.I accept that all software has bugs. I do not accept that paying clients - which is what we all are, let's face it - should have to put up with a product that has such problems in it, particularly when those problems were reported months ago, and repeatedly, by unpaid beta testers.I have played since Vanilla. I have gone through all the expansions and they have all had teething problems, sure - but none of them have had problems to the extent that DF does.It may well be that the codebase has changed a lot and it may well be that there are lots of new systems. Do you know what ? I don't care. I have paid my cash for a product that is less than good and there is little, if any, acknowledgment from Blizzard that they are aware of the problems and no indication of a plan to fix them.
I feel like Dragon Isles and especially Valdrakken right now are just being hammered to death by server issues. And, to an extent, Vault of the Incarnates. I hope we get some sort of server+systems optimization soon because it sucks to just have lag and awful FPS out of nowhere for these populated areas.