Are 241 NA servers really needed

Truebow-suramar · January 20, 2019, 2:02am

When wow had 10 Million + I could see the need for 241 servers but today are they necessary?

Luckychàrms-stormrage · January 20, 2019, 2:04am

Heh, the servers cant even handle a 10v10 in WPVP they are so bad. So yes, since ActiBlizz wont upgrade them we may want more.

anon629088 · January 20, 2019, 2:05am

It doesnot matter because we have sharding now .
It actually helps to have a lot of choices . With different population servers and different time zone servers .

Shenlong-dathremar · January 20, 2019, 2:05am

One for each player

Rautha-stonemaul · January 20, 2019, 2:06am

yea there are all sorts of bugs happening due to zones being too crowded.

the Holy power/chi/combopoint bug for combo classes and the mount/shapeshift bug plus quest and achiev trackers lagging.

its pretty bad.

anon629088 · January 20, 2019, 2:06am

Said the wise panda mage .

Peiho-moon-guard · January 20, 2019, 2:07am

Is your name a Jackie Chan Adventures reference?

Shenlong-dathremar · January 20, 2019, 2:09am

‘Wise Monk does not pee into the wind’

Gormosh-hyjal · January 20, 2019, 2:10am

I don’t imagine the servers cost much to maintain. I don’t think it’s worth forced server merges to get rid of them.

Sorelai-wyrmrest-accord · January 20, 2019, 4:18am

They aren’t even real servers anymore. They are Virtual Machines. There is probably a dozen servers running all 241 realms.

Primalmatter-stormrage · January 20, 2019, 4:19am

40 Would likely be up for the task with perhaps another 20 phased ones for a new expac launch.

Fùry-stormrage · January 20, 2019, 4:20am

There might as well be 250 just to round it off

Diyandiya-gorgonnash · January 20, 2019, 4:23am

With connected realms there are only really 117 total realms.

Notagin-kul-tiras · January 20, 2019, 4:26am

Legacy tech. They have no choice.

Clint-trollbane · January 20, 2019, 4:27am

Servers are pointless now with crz and sharding

Ashna-scarlet-crusade · January 20, 2019, 4:30am

When a new expansion comes out, or a popular patch, lots of people log in, and there are queue timers. We don’t need to change anything.

Jaquestiney-area-52 · January 20, 2019, 4:40am

I dunno. I feel like sharding and crz causes lag. I never use to lag as much before crz, then crz happened and boom… started lagging.

Darthvixen-terokkar · January 20, 2019, 4:46am

ten years ago, yes. even my boring flyover-territory realm had occasional login queues back then, even when it was listed as a medium population realm.
also back then, realms were segregated by battle group; it wasn’t until the cataclysm decline where i would see battle groups abolished

barrens chat was also a thing, even on alliance side. was too easy to get into a wailing cavern pug

Chihao-frostmourne · January 20, 2019, 5:26am

They have to upgrade the quality of servers, not quantity.
Expecting another wave of connected realms by expansion end probably.

Thequixote-staghelm · January 20, 2019, 5:33am

I have a conspiracy theory that they came up with a system to stealth merge servers.

It’s the 8.1 lag. Something like three servers of people in the same area but two of those servers are ghost people you can’t see, but you still log on like it’s a regular server.