Grobbulus will be as active as Emerald Dream used to be. I can’t wait!
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Someone made this on reddit and it is great. Join the Grob Mob!
Sorry about the low picture quality.
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It was impossible for me to log into Grob and Bloodsail for at least 30 mins so that did not help matters. Yet other servers were a bit of a pause but i was in. The RP ones just both would disconnect before entry every time. I think the community on both will be awesome.
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You should be able to login to both now and do whatever atm.
Recall that Blizzard “adjusted” how those population levels were achieved.
There are three numbers we do not know:
- What is the concurrent players cap per Azeroth (layer pair)?
- What is the concurrent player cap once layering is removed?
- What it the maximum server population (total server cap of players allowed to roll on it)?
For concurrent players per layer pair, it is estimated they will shoot for 2500-3000… something very similar to a server in Vanilla.
There are rumors/guesses out there, based on some vague info from Blizz, that after layering is removed, they may raise that cap to 5000 or even more (maybe 10k?).
What we don;t know for sure is how many players were allowed to roll on a server. Some people guess this at 20k, some 30k… Whatever it was, you can expect that the number will be larger for Classic… mostly because Blizzard expects such a sharp drop off.
If layering will handle that issue at launch, and allow them all to play fairly freely, then increasing the max server population is a good way to make sure that after the dropoff… there will still be plenty of people active to make a thriving community.
So while ANY number is a guess (unless Blizz decides to release the numbers) if we toss a guess of 50k population… then we can start to guess at that low, medium and high means…
Low = 1-15k
Medium = 15k-35k
High = 35k-50k
All completely hypothetical… but you can probably extrapolate similar numbers yourself that wouldn’t be too far off.
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Whoa my thing glitched lol
Anyway I wouldn’t be worried honestly it’ll be full on launch there are a loooot of people that want this.
Doesn’t help that this along with two other servers were messed up for almost an hour no one could log in lol what a, disaster
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Yeah I really think something went wrong with the rp servers, I didn’t see that happening for others and it kept switching my server to other names. Everyone on the discord was complaining about it too and I know my guild was having problems like this.
I also think the pop cap got set higher with the layering tech, they want less servers and more layers so it wouldn’t surprise me. I’m not worrying about pop until release imo.
Everyone is trying to deduce server populations and using the fact that there were queues as evidence to support their theories.
I think all of you are wrong.
The queues were not there because the servers cap had been reached. The queues were there, because all those thousands of people were trying to log in at exactly the same time, and the login servers couldnt handle it. That is why so many people were stuck on ‘logging in to game server’ for a while before the queues started.
The queues were there, because blizzard were watching and realised that the login servers were not coping with 10000 people trying to log in at the same time, so they artificially initiated queues in order to cycle through the logins a few a time instead of all at once.
The queues were going down very fast. There is no way people were creating their 3 toons that fast, and then immediately logging out. It was artificial.
also explains why we went from huge queue, to a server saying low pop.
Remember, server hardware is lightyears beyond what it was back in the day. Server capacity will be a whole lot higher. Low pop now is probably equivalent to high pop from 8 years ago.
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Grobb will be fine relax. the only difference will be whether we get a 2nd rp pvp server or not. As we get closer there’s going to be more servers made. (between now and aug 26)
Simmer down.
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I was timed out at least 10+ times when trying to log into a “Low Population” Grobbulus. So I wouldnt take those population numbers as a good indicator.
I was also logged on Mankrik without selecting it several times. I ended up not getting any of my original names but I guess thats part of it.
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That’s just the login server and you land on a random server when you do that. I landed on Atiesh about 20 times before I finally was able to land on Grobb to set my name up.
There’s nothing to worry about. Every server will be high pop come launch. Mark it.
I didnt have any problems with getting to the realm list. I had problems getting on the actual realm.
I definitely did, it took me over half an hour, even though I was right here logged in 10 minutes before the fact. THEN I had problems getting on the realm besides. I live close to Chicago too.
I imagine since the place was getting so slammed it didn’t really matter much, everything was up for grabs. You couldn’t even load the forums. First come first serve I suppose.
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Same happened to me. I got Loot on Atiesh because I didn’t realize and had to settle for Loot in Portuguese on Herod.
I think it’s mostly the fact that retail players are logging in and reserving names rather than anything regarding community on any servers. I know we make jokes about not many people playing retail but there’s a couple million folks playing and they were dropping over to reserve some names.
We’ll see. 
Its hard to really wrap your hands around the population indicators as blizzard gives them to use. They were earlier in the name cycle all hitting high population with only a few at Med and the RP servers left at low.
My guess would be that the internal numbers are just different for classic but since we have no further information its all just a big question mark.
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Didn’t help nobody could log into Grobbulus or Buccaneers for the first 40 mins of name reservation because you literally couldn’t, the login screen was down for 3 servers. They also all defaulted to Atiesh, which created more confusion.
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I wonder if it was because of the way they expected the servers to be. I did see some people trickel in but there were 2 moments that kind of happened.
First, the load balancer to even SEE the server list started to work again.
Second, There was a moment where suddenly everyone started to post the names they got.
I would be interested to read a postmortem on this just to here what happened in the background from blizzard. Though i may be the only one interested in that technical end of stuff
Is prime raid times going to be to late for est players?