If you want classic to do well then one of the best ways is to ensure enough players aren’t so absolutely frustrated with their first impression of the game by not even being able to log in maybe?
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Yea it was so epic at 2 FPS and dropping connections… SOOO epic.
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Oh I see. You’re totally right. Dead realms WERE part of the experience!
So do you have your CRT monitor set up? Your old computer with 512MBs of RAM?
Should we throttle servers to simulate the lag that vanilla had?
How about scheduled disconnects to simulate the server instability?
We should probably all start signing up for dial up. I’m sure I have an old AOL CD somewhere around here.
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If my server doesn’t crash at the opening, I’ll be disappointed. #nochanges !
/sarchasm
Sharding will be used to alleviate the flash-in-the-pan bulge. Not sharding means far more servers, resulting in almost all being dead 6 months in.
You want sharding up to an including the Barrens. But at a rate that simulates WoW Vanilla, not Legion. 500 people in a zone, per shard, should ensure that mobs are hard to find, hoofless Zhevras are still impossible to find, and Planstrider spawn points are still camped.
But without the need to have so many servers that the end concurrent pop of any server is 500.
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Answer me this authentic wow server cap was around 3000. If say blizzard gets 1 million players just In the US for launch day tourists, people returning, people just trying it out. How many servers do you expect blizzard to open? That would be 333+ servers and that’s just to not have que times. I doubt they will have that many servers for a game that’s not there main source of income, especially not when it’s an add on to their live game.
Now say the population is 5000-7000 which isn’t authentic but say they did it anyways. you know they are not going to use dynamic respawns because again not authentic. I hope you’re ready to wait 10+ minutes per mob respawn.
Now when the tourists eventually leave, and the people just trying it out. What do you think blizzard will do with the dead servers?
Obviously this is just my opinion, I for one don’t want to wait 3 days to play the game when it finally does launch.
-Sinclaire -Torch-
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I think that value is massively low for Day One Mk 2. I’d be expecting more like 5 million, with every active sub, and a bunch of one month returnees.
Haha, I hope that misspell was intentional. 
I am one of the most anti sharding people you will ever meet. I understand why blizzard wants to use sharding during launch. am i happy about it? no.
do i understand? yes.
so long as blizzard stays true to their word, all good.
the moment i catch a whiff of sharding outside of “a few weeks, starting zones”. i’ll be here torch and pitchfork in hand.
This includes AQ. if they shard AQ, it would completely ruin the experience of AQ.
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I want my 3 minute Kneel-Skating on Day One! How else will I get that piece of Cloth off a Kul Tiran Soldier!
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Merging servers would look really bad to investors extremely bad. And you would kill any chance of ever getting classic TBC or classic + content.
-Sinclaire -Torch-
I want Classic to be original WoW - nothing more, nothing less.
If Blizzard pulls that off, then it WILL do well by nature of it being original WoW - one of the best games ever made. I just want my old original WoW back, just like it was, warts and all.
Again, I will wait in queues and potentially roll on a dead realm (just like I did during Vanilla and TBC) if it means no sharding - because, sharding (along with other modern tech/conveniences) killed the thing I loved most about this game: my community and the feeling of being immersed in another world in the original WoW I once loved.
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Sarchasm - The gap between my sarcastic remark, and the understanding someone took from it.
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Well seeing as a server run my amateurs could keep 10,000 people online with little to no lag, I’d venture to say blizzard can do it. Keep in mind we have 15 years of tech advancement
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Tech advancement they don’t use because they want to save money. Servers are so trash
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You would be happy waiting on que times of well over 100,000? Which would take you 15+ hours to get into?
-Sinclaire -Torch-
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yes but such servers at the minimum would require dynamic spawns, which can be abused to make those rare resources not rare. i would rather original server pops. maybe 5k at most.
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If an amateur server can reproduce the event better than blizzard they should be ashamed but you have a very valid point… they are extremely cheap
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10,000 people isn’t authentic. They do that because they can’t really afford to have more then 1 or two servers 3000 is authentic.
-Sinclaire -Torch-
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Yea I wasn’t advocating for server size. I was saying blizzard should be able to keep a 3-5K capped server stable during the event.
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