Classic was moved to a retail infrastructure. Its all running retail under the hood.
It isn’t CRZ it is a new feature just for classic called multiple realm area. It is completely different.
What?
EDIT: Links, please. I need information.
It was a joke.
Sorry, I’m VERY passionate about this subject matter and take it kind of seriously. Appreciate the attempt in making light of the situation 
Can’t wait for BC Classic to be retail 2.0 lmao
Connected Realms for Classic are probably the most likely reason for adding server names to character names. (And connected realms are just server mergers that let everyone keep their names.) I have mixed feeling about them in retail (mostly because I think there should be some small realms for those who prefer them) but I think it’s the best way to merge servers if you’re going to go that route.
As a side note, please stop using CRZ and Connected Realms interchangeably. They aren’t the same thing. It makes me nuts. I think it’s very unlikely we’ll see CRZ before Cataclysm Classic.
CRZ is a technology used to get a zone’s population to a target by either bringing people from multiple servers together or creating multiple instances of the zone to deal with crowding. This technology would break the pre-Cata world as it causes phase boundaries between zones which would mess with NPCs that pat across zones. So, I don’t think it’s likely we’ll see it in Classic or BCC. (And if we do and they just decide to just let stuff break, that’s a good sign to abandon ship, IMO.)
Classic’s layering uses the “separating” part of CRZ to manage crowding, but also applies it to an entire continent (again, because zone based phasing would break stuff.) From a tech standpoint, I think it’s likely that they could also use layering to bring people from different servers together on a continent, but the population across a continent isn’t evenly distributed, so I’m not sure using it in this way would actually be helpful. So, again, I don’t think it’s all that likely we’ll see them change layering to smoosh servers together in Classic or BCC. You don’t get enough benefit to counteract the backlash.
Cross realm grouping (retail) lets you form manual groups with players from any realm and get phased into their CRZ instance. This would work in Classic if you wanted to keep all server’s AHs separate but increase the player pool for doing stuff. Again, probably not the best option, as low population causes AH problems as well as group finding problems. This also is pretty server community destroying, so again, I’m not sure if the benefits would outweigh the backlash, and least for Classic and BCC. I’d worry more about it making an appearance in Wrath when LFD comes into play.
Probably only have a few ‘Classic Eternal’ realms, and this will let people keep their name.
Nothing more than that.
Yeah I agree, progress over names but that’s not what the devs believe is best.
It is also possible that they did this because it was easy to do and puts them in a better situation for later work, like Wrath? Maybe someone in the Dev team was doing something with playernames and it was just decided that since you are in there you might as well implement this feature too.
It could mean absolutely nothing at this time, and simply be a “since you have to go to town, you might as well grab some milk at the store, because we will need it next week.” situation.
Valid points because Classic Era needs to thrive so we can use that as a basis for TBC or Wrath Era servers to succeed.
People will have to be okay with connected realms for forever-classic servers because it’s going to be a graveyard
Personally, I am not a huge fan of CRZ as a solution… But I do believe either it (CRZ) or connected realms is coming.
I think certain realms will avoid the plague - like RP rulesets I feel will maintain their individual server identities, or at the very least will only CRZ with other RP realms of the same pve/pvp distinction.
This seems like the least effort / most lazy / most cost-effective way blizzard can resolve the issue… So naturally, I feel it is the answer they will go with.
I don’t think it will be CRZ. I think it will be connected realms.
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Also very possibly the solution. I’ll make an edit because I feel it could be either one as a solution. Either one I am not a huge fan of…
I am okay with connected realms as long as they “blur the lines” so to speak… meaning give the ability to hide the server names and make interaction with these players essentially the same as reacting with your own server mates.
Connected realms is just Blizzard’s PR positive way of saying ‘server mergers’.
But I agree, I’m not a super big fan of it. Hiding the server names (outside of whispering or mail) would be a nice adjustment to make. Though, this might be confusing if two players with the same name are in the same group / guild…
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This could also be something to do with the realm bifercation. Maybe they needed to implement this to allow guilds or players to communicate with thier sister Classic Era server.
Just spit-balling here.
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It would be confusing, but just like in real life when people share the same name then it is up to the people to come up with solutions… “little john” vs “big john” for example…
I actually relish the idea of people in the same group or guild sharing a name - so I can see how people would differentiate them… It does not have to come down to Blizzard resolving such a simplistic issue as this.
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