On the subject of moving old servers to the new hardware...

[Nakilos]

Did they just give up on this entirely with the expectation that server transfers will resolve the problems old servers have? My server has had 2 migrations and all it resulted in was we have next to no horde, rare queues, but performance is still utter crap. Some people who went to the new servers on the migrations restarted on my server and each of them has commented its a pretty obvious difference in latency between the 2 servers, the transfer server being on the new hardware.

Anyone read anything recently? Because I haven't found anything indicating they plan to help the old servers out at all. Transfers just aren't good enough.

[Zierain]

It's kind of amazing. They opened up transfers to blackhand, yet the server is utter crap. Prolly not near as bad as other servers, but it still is very unstable, making it hard to raid in the evenings, the queue is up every day at primetime, usually a 30-45 minute wait.

And they still open transfers up to add more? My guild alone has gotten many many cross server apps. We definately did NOT need this transfer with how unstable and crappy the server is performing =/

[Bixxby]

They can't even keep billing/account management up, let alone play servers.

[Chaid]

Replace US Argent Dawn hardware, kthx.

[Tuco]

Old server hardware pretty much killed Arthas.

[Scaffa]

Here's my story involving WoW and latency.

After beta ended (130ms-160 for me), I picked up a copy of US retail and picked a server at random. The server I chose was Bloodhoof.

Being that I live in Wales at the time I wasn't expecting a stellar connection. Years of playing EQ from Scotland meant I was used to having a little bit of a blurry - but playable - connection. Good nights were around 220ms, bad nights rode all the way up to 400ms.

I got bored with that character and decided i'd start again on an EU server with some friends, Bladefist. Queue's were expected from about 5pm GMT onwards, usually around 300-400 people. Latency was very, very good. Usually around 90ms-130ms, it was a great server. 5-8 AB's up during the week and over 12 on the weekend,3-5 WSG's and 2 AV's. Then all of a sudden they decided to split the server.

After the split, queues stopped. Amazingly this is the first time i've actually heard of splitting doing something positive, until I noticed I was getting massive lag spikes and my MS was shooting up to over 900 alot. I wasn't alone either, people bitched on our board about it alot claiming it was unplayable. BG's became hardcore, die once literally meant you were out of the game cause the rezzer was never there.

They split Bladefist again, latency was still there but we weren't. So many people left the server that it became a "one AV a week" and "one WSG a day" server. Luckily we'd taken the second split and ended up on Shadow Moon, a "new hardware" server with a population made up of splits. Lag was almost non-existant here, but we'd decided to re-make on another server.

We scouted out servers for balanced populations and BG activity, and picked Ragnaros. Lag spikes occasionally, nothing too severe though. Everything was pretty good, always hovering around 110ms. Til two weeks ago.

We got one of those "brand new hardware" patches, where the server was down for 24 hours. Since that install, lag was unbearable. Raiders are complaining, BG's are lagging out, random freezes, massive spikes. It's stabalised now but now my ping is consistantly higher and i'm still getting freezes. Some people in my guild have said "fuck this" and just stopped playing because they were getting really bad latency, and for a PvP guild with only 13 60's that's pretty devastating.

Something has always been wrong with Blizzards servers, and I think it's about time they seriously addressed it. These "new hardware" patches aren't working.