Surprise surprise, ArcheAge's queues have only gotten worse since the game opened its doors to the unwashed masses of my fellow froobie players. I understand Trion's hesitation to introduce too many servers at launch, given how much server downsizing even freshly-released games have had to do in the wake of hyped launches that failed to retain players. Really I do.
But right now, we are sitting at something like four to five thousand players in the queue for each server, if not more. Even patrons are reporting five to eight hour queue times. Tonight's stream window was literally ALL filled with waiting on the queue, which left me casting to an empty room about the forums drama, buildcraft, and my desperate need for a parser so I can start digging into the game's combat mechanics.
I should really look and see if there's an ACT plugin for the game yet.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, fortunately. Trion's CEO appeared on the forums today, more or less apologizing for the giant clusterfuck and assuring us that they were in the process of establishing more servers. It's...better than nothing. And certainly better than the three or four tweets @ArcheAge sent out about how they were going to be aggressively kicking people going AFK with their mounts ingame.
>.> Sorry guys, but between the labor system only giving free players points while they're logged in and the mounts only leveling while they're actually out and being used... That should have been expected. And probably was expected. I'm just kind of curious why Trion and XL didn't hook up BEFORE launch to integrate Trion's shnifty anti-botting/anti-spam software.
Ah well. Barn door after the cows are loose, or whatever.
Skillset hype! In spite of the fact that Auramancy and Shadowplay are currently the two most used sets according to Arche-Base's builder, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth at the overpoweredness of Archery. Because OMGNOES we can kill from range. That...you know... being the point of archery. Never mind that archery builds tend to be squishy, especially when CCd- even Stonearrows. Or that you can change your build and level the other schools to counter whatever it is you're having issues with.
It's cool. This is QueueAge, after all. It's brought to you by the letter Q and the number 420 if you believe the forums. A little QQing is to be expected.
Hopefully tonight I'll be able to get in and do some more grinding so I can theoretically start streaming PvP early next week. I'm still playing Trickster, and liking it a LOT. I wish I had some self-healing or something, but so far it's working well. And I've only gotten my elk killed a half dozen times. (For a good time, summon your mount while it's dead. It falls out of the sky and tips over at your feet, and it's HILARIOUS.)
If a new server opens tomorrow or over the weekend, there is a good chance I will be rerolling. We'll see. I'm trying to be patient with QueueAge, but a girl can only sit and pointedly livestream her queue for so long before it wears on her. And it's hard as shit to come up with content for a game that I can't actually log into. Q.Q (#QueueQueue?)
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