Gamigo removed character creation restrictions (including the faction locks) on EU-Alexander, NA-Tyrenos, NA-Wynn, and NA-Denistrious at 11AM Pacific today (after only making the actual announcement 1 hour prior).
What is absolutely maddening about this decision is that all of these servers have hours+ long queues. It took me almost 5 hours to finally connect on Sunday. They aren’t even trying to do anything with the AFK queue dodgers and according to their October 22nd maintenance notice, it doesn’t include anything about the implementation of the server and queue disconnect grace period. Hello? Is there oxygen flowing to the brain? It obviously isn’t since these ex-Trion staff still handling the backend for Gamigo, lost most of their decision making capabilities while at Trion.
I logged in to a 2500 queue and the following is what it looked like 3 hours later.
And it’s a slow trickle going in compared to the first week where once you were in the low hundreds, it took under 20 minutes to connect.
I do realize they are way below their actual maximum server caps and have been locking/restricting based on soft cap intervals. I ran around the game yesterday on east and west, and besides the optimum spots, there is a huge amount of land available. These hours long queues are more of a testament to their infrastructure (Gamigo trying to cut costs) being unable to handle certain levels of loads (requiring a slow opening of the tap to prevent connectivity from going to pot).
So I repeat, any fence sitters should just stay away unless you want to submit yourself to punishment. Myself, this is going to continue to be me documenting the good and bad about this business model and how Gamigo handles the game and support going forward.
