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World of Warcraft: Forever is off to a great start with Blizzard's smoothest launch in memory

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World of Warcraft: Forever is off to a great start with Blizzard's smoothest launch in memory

World of Warcraft: Forever came out last night. Those who stayed up were prepared for the usual from major WoW releases: long queues, disconnects, and server lag. However, save for a few minor hiccups here and there, things went off without a hitch.

Eurogamer can report first-hand that for European players who stayed up from, let's say 11pm - 3:50am last night, the login queues were short and constantly moving. Those who were very keen to get in the moment servers went live ran into unclickable server selection boxes, but backing out and re-joining the short queue fixed this problem swiftly.

Once you got in, there was very little server lag save for a lost spell cast or two, nor were constant random disconnects that would boot you out into the cold (I didn't get disconnected once - a record). As far as WoW launches go, an incredibly smooth first day.

This was acknowledged by World of Warcraft developers, such as executive producer Holly Longdale who wrote on X: "At the risk of jinxing things, so far so goodish which is crazy by itself. The team prepared a lot since the wildness of Beta. And this launch was crazier than the insanity we imagined but thankfully the team built plans and contingencies. They are incredible in my opinion.".

Josh "Aggrend" Greenfield, a senior game designer on World of Warcraft Forever, addressed some minor issues that did pop up. These include a zone population problem: in basic terms the megaservers split players into different shards, and some of these felt a bit empty of players.


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