The problem extends beyond a "simple" technical aspect, people fail to realize this (mmorpgs) are inherently different from other games that require a server or host. Let's assume there is a miracle server somewhere (in the figment of your imagination) that can greatly increase the performance of its clients provided money isn't an issue (which it certainly is not when it comes to Blizzard). Now what (reasonable solution) is there to prevent people (human beings and I know how social contact is a bit of a scary novelty for some of you) from all migrating to a certain server, you don't think high population servers happen by chance now do you? If your friends (in game or in real life) decide that server X is a great place to play, you would probably end up on that server. Now if they suddenly decide that server Y is now a better place and migrate there, what would you do? And what if all of the guilds of your server even low population ones decide to raid at the same particular time? What then?

There is no simple solution to this problem, and Blizzard hasn't stated that the solution they proposed to be in any sense permanent, if anything it helps as it might help better allocate technical resources.

And I love it when people pretend they can somehow magically solve the problem because you know Blizzard doesn't have professionals working on stuff like this or anything or they are somehow more qualified to state their "opinion" on the matter because they have experienced it. Think before you open your mouth, so you don't have **** spewing out of your mouth and that same **** doesn't end up being stuffed back :)

I would be able to appreciate what Blizzard had done, throttling the instances to try and create a playable realm, if the queues to get on the realms had gone (they are back on my server), and the game didn't lag when you hit Dalaran and other areas.

I can appreciate that bandwidth and server power come at a cost, I work in an industry where we have to balance all of this ourselves against the cost, but at the end of the day, it is our customers that we want to keep happy, so the cost is more often than not justified.

It is fine for Dauphine to say that if players just keep trying for 1 minute maximum they will get it, this is not always the case. I have now given up on the idea of trying to get into any instance until they have this rectified as during the evenings and weekends when I am playing I can be trying constantly for up to 5-10 minutes and just keep receiving the same message, no matter what instance we try and get into. I spend most of my time out in the PVE environment and only occassionally have the need to enter an instance with my group as it is difficult getting us all online for any fixed duration at any time, so to take all that planning and preperation, give up our time for a run, only to find out that it has been for nothing is very demoralizing.

It does not help that the server I am on is pretty high level. A majority of the players have reached 80 and are running the instances rather than spending time in the world, so it does tend to overbalance things.

It would be better if there could be a queueing system like there is at the login. At least you can try and enter the instance gate and be placed in a holding queue where you can be given a number - and a time - when the instance will be available. At the moment it is pot luck as to who gets in and when.

Yet again the PvE players get the shaft. GG Blizz, get activision the **** out of your business - you were better off without them.

This is not acceptable. It is hard enough sometimes to form a group for a dungeon. Now because Blizzard is too cheap to upgrade and/or open more servers we have to wait in queue just to run a dungeon? That's stupid and if this becomes a major issue on my server I will be canceling my account.

Seems like Blizzards reward for being so successful is to ***** players with queues to log in, added lag due to large populations, and now waiting in another queue to run a dungeon. I can see it now spending an hour trying to get tank, heals. Finally go to run heroics and pop get this message. Healer gets mad and leaves, group disbands, no heroic.

Even with a large income source, there is no such thing as unlimited bandwidth and unlimited performance. There are limitations.