i work backshift so i was looking at running on the oceanic severs like i did back when they first implimented them. i’m kind of worried seeing them both as low pop though. i want to be on a big server incase of drop off. are there any aussies or other oceanic people out there?? any guilds recruiting?
just how low is the oceanic low vs NA low? does anyone have numbers? what does low mean exactly?
Bit early to judge anything since it doesn’t launch for another two weeks. But be aware that the oceanic servers are located in Australia so you will get a high ping compared to US servers.
i played oceanic from when they first appeared till warlords
It’s probably reading low cause most aussies are still at work rather than being home to put in their name reserves haha. If you are looking for a chill guild to hang out in for Classic tho let me know we will be running on Arugal 
Me being based in HK - I did’nt notice it being low when i was stuck reserving names today early morning on Arugal (PVP server). Seems a lot of people. But personally i dont stress about not having a huge server.
The “Classic Wow Oceania” Discord is a great start place to find Oceanic guilds. Over 3000 members.
the what with the who? how do i connect to this magical place?
Well my question is what are the thresh holds for low, medium, and high?
Arugal - the one and only oceanic PvP server… it will be packed on launch day, make no mistake about that. Whether it stays that way months after launch who knows.
Oceanic for me is around 20ms on average US servers are around 180+ (good FTTP connection in Melbourne)
Both realms were queued this morning at 8.00am on the dot (AEST time) for name reserves. Not the 10K queue madness that was Herod but I’m sure there will be plenty of action both PVP and PVE on the two realms and no streamers - we hope.
Layering will mean you’ll never be lonely (or so they say)
< 5k C.O boys = dead server!
This morning at 8am aussie server Arugal had a queue of 7000.
Now at 5pm we are all heading home to reserve our names. It’ll be packed don’t worry.
I was in and out by 8:06am. Didn’t see any queues :S Must have had some good RNG
Lucky boiii
Now that I know there was 7k I feel better. Ty
I don’t know about 7k, the most I saw thrown around was 4.5k in queue, but that may have gotten bigger.
We have over 4000 members in the discord and have seen over 700 unique accounts join since the start of the stress test. I suspect the population at large will be a lot higher come launch.
You may join the discord here; discord.gg/U4kEVrN
I’d love to see your population figures, can you post a link to them or did you just make an assumption based on the name reservation process today ???
The stress test conducted on the weekend had plenty of people on in the oceanic realm, so many in fact we got experience the new layering mechanics first hand.
What is layering ? long story short, it’s there to prevent exactly what you’re concerned about - ending up on a wasteland server.
As with any release, initial numbers are useless gauge. You’re going to have a large number of players we are calling “tourists”, players who are subbed for Retail and only looking into classic because they can. Those tourists are going to skew any initial numbers to be totally inaccurate and thus worthless.
Yes, there are plenty of us Oceanic people out there as the Oceanic tag incorporates Australia, New Zealand and SEA.
Here’s some quick numbers for you :
Now admittedly, we don’t know exactly which sections of SEA blizzard have included, as Korea and China have there own servers, but there still a hefty amount. Even if you disregard SEA entirely, you’ve still got over 30 million people in Aus/NZ.
Now lets go further and say a measly 0.2% of the population decides to play Classic, that’s still going to give you 60,000 just from Aus/NZ. Now add people in the US working odd hours and you’ll be pretty safe to bet on enough population. No one really knows though, only time will tell.
As to guilds recruiting, Yes some are, others are holding off until we have a way of actually making a guild and attracting the right type of player to it. There’s currently no dedicated forums for realms or guilds for Classic, making recruiting less than ideal for a game that isn’t live yet.
Edit note : sorry for the long reply, but your’s isn’t the first post I’ve seen concerned about server populations and I thought adding some limited facts to the discussion might help.
Yeah its appreciated.
Also depends on what each person considers sufficient pop.
IMO 5K is borderline sufficient. Others may consider that overpopulated.
There is at the very, very least enough pop to fill a crowded layer. Chances are there will be multiple crowded layers, particularly on the PVP server.
There is a chance however that the PVE server may be the least populated Classic server, as 87% of Oceanic players on reddit polled to play on the PVP server.
Also there is a possibility that a population of disgruntled Korean PVPers may choose to roll on the Oceanic server.