Conspiracies on why Blizzard limited the amount of servers at launch

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@Whorc-blackrock

How about if they increase server cap and in turn create more layers so that more people can play? Then, if their drop off theory is true, reduce layers while rolling back the server cap to the intended # as people stop playing to maintain server density?

Or is the bottleneck the hardware of the server itself?

Please enlighten this illiterate soul, oh wise one, as this is not my area of expertise.

Man, if the only the developers had recently answered a bunch of questions about that very subject.

@Kaivax

A: We’re absolutely committed to reaching one layer per realm by Phase 2. This is why we need to have upper bounds on the number of players connected to the realm at one time, and queue players past that point.

Much in the same way they don’t have too many servers to avoid dead servers in the future, Blizzard doesn’t want to have too many people on one server because the more people they have, the harder it will be to compress to one layer before Phase 2.

I’d also like to note that its pretty great that for three months this forum was screaming “NO LAYERING NO LAYERING” and now its “MORE LAYERS MORE LAYERS MORE LAYERS CAUSE WE’RE IDIOTS WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT LAYERING IS”