Estimated login time for a 10000 player queue

[Aryxymaraki-13810 (Aryxymaraki)]

@Stellan-khaz-modan

@Aryxymaraki-earthen-ring

While they possess the technology to be capable of that, they have stated that they are not going to.

Where did they say that and why would they? What is the point of layering if not to get more people on a realm? I understand what they said about layering being an issue when they want to drop it around the one month point. But if it’s still aneeded, they can either delay the abandonment of layering or add more servers. Forcing players into queues on all the servers won’t solve anything unless they really want Classic to fail.

Overcrowded Realm Update

Based on name reservations so far, the Herod realm is looking to be massively overpopulated. If all existing players on this server remain there, login queues in excess of 10,000 players are a certainty, and possibly much higher than that. We recently opened up the Stalagg realm, and we urge players on Herod to consider moving there. There are a lot of players currently on Herod and we want Stalagg to fill up before we open any new PvP realms. This is so that player population is spread as even…

@Kaivax

While we are able to fit several times more players on a single realm in 2019 than was the case in 2006, we are not going to raise that cap any further, even though we have the technical capacity to do so. Raising realm caps would simply forestall the problem, letting more players in at launch but creating an unsustainable situation down the line, with severe queues when we turn off layering permanently before Phase 2 of our content unlock plan.

They are not going to delay the abandonment of layering, nor should they. This problem is entirely the fault of players and is entirely within the power of players to fix. Blizzard should not take actions that will cause long-term damage to the health of Classic just because players are being stubborn.