I was the only EJ in the ctprofiles beta, so I made the guild and we've been too lazy to change it.

Edit: we have a bunch of new alliance who are already complaining about non-instant queues, so that attraction is gone. We had a login queue last night, but that may have been unrelated to actual server population. No lag yet.

What about other aspects of the server? Instant BG queues aren't a necessity, used to waiting 10-15 minutes for gulch on Warsong which is considered very pvp active.

I have 1 request before EJ leaves MG (if the rumors are true)...


i want to see that special epic bug mount!! i have never seen it!

what

We're totally leaving Mal'Ganis. The internet said so.

We were hoping you wouldn't find out and you'd log on to an empty guildchat

Good luck with that.
We had queues of over 1000 immediately after our server transfer finished.

The grass is always greener, isnt it?

We left an extremely old server, EU Burning blade was a closed beta server and frankly was falling to bits.
It was originally a 600queue but we had TWO outgoing migrations that pushed the population down to the point where we didnt have queues. Unfortunately we noticed that even with no queues the server would lag and crash incessantly, it could take up to 15 minutes to retrieve an item from the mail box even at midnight and no queue, it was very comman for more than half of a raid to crash on entering the tunnel from Huhuran to Fankriss as well.

Essentially the hardware was completely borked so on the third migration the entire population left lock stock and barrel to a new server and new hardware. When I say everyone left I mean there were 8 people in IF at primetime immediately following the migration, every single guild capable of runnning 20 or 40man instances left. Blizzard were given warning of this, infact there were several posts on the realm and the generalm forum of the EU Blizard forums, and despite repeated warnings time and time again they still acted suprized when they had to close the migrations a day early with queues at over 1000.

The really sad thing was that, even with a queue of 1000, the new server ran 100times better than the old server.

Given that blizzard cant manage to control migrations even given weeks of advance warning, I would not hold my breath over them limiting migrations to popular servers until far too late.

You didn't get the memo?

Our Guild Leader, Ailideon, said he had given it to everyone who was going to come with u...... oh.

Maybe she just couldn't read it.

You guys are slow, I already made that joke.

sargeras is now seeing ever growing queues each day now also. Does anyone know if they are going to continue with free transfers or will this be the only way to get off of servers with 30 minute log in queues?

rumor is that the player limit was temporarily lowered to control lag during transfer and world event moments. Or something like that. It's no biggie.


oh yeah, hi jerks, let's be friends again.

Are you the same GS that infested Kel'Thuzud Alliance side right after release?

Considering that he listed his server as Mal'ganis I would be tempted to say no. I don't know the internal politics of Goon Squad these days, but I'm fairly sure that GS Alliance on Kel'thuzad and GS Horde on Mal'ganis are completely separate entities.

Oh that explains why Ironforge looked 500% larger than from when I quit. I want to eventually transfer my Priest off that shithole of a server to Altar of Storms :/

So did you both come from the same beta group?

I don't think a lot of current GSH or GSA come from the Goon Squad Closed Beta, as has been explained earlier in this topic

I was an open beta player myself.

here's the easiest way to explain it:
let's say SA has about 1,800 people who want to play wow.
1000 of these people roll horde on 'ganis, 150 sounds about right for the original size of Hooligan, 50 go to other guilds, and the rest join Goon Squad.
500 of these people roll alliance on kel'thuzad, most of whom join The Goon Squad
300 or so go play on random servers somewhere.

things start friendly between hooligans and GS, people level, I /friend darkidol, and things are happy. Then someone gets their feelings hurt and ruins relations between EJ (right when they changed to EJ) and GS. GS undergoes a series of splinters, but still maintains around 800 members. Everyone kinda ignores The Goon Squad on Kel.

so, in open and stress test beta everyone was either on server #4 or server # 29 (?). at release we split up to Kel'Thuzad and Mal'Ganis.


note: numbers are made up to give a general idea, not specifics.

I remember near release looking on one of the WoW census sites and seeing goon squad having 500 members and I couldn't imagine how that was even remotely possible.

we maxxed out at around 950 or so. now we're down to an estimated 650. we don't know because the guild tab doesn't show more than 500 people.