How come so few servers originally?

[Juke-destromath]

Everybody (myself included) complained that the very few original servers they had decided on was way not enough. They’ve since added over 20 new servers. How come Blizzard didn’t listen originally?

[Ravensèyé-tichondrius]

Because they still thought we didn’t.

[Sushí-emerald-dream]

im assuming they wanted a ball park number with the name reservations and a lot of people didnt do that. So on launch a ton of people hopped on and tried to play.

Thats just a guess but even then i would think they would have more servers to begin with. Im not that worried about it though, it will even out.

[Lickapriest-arthas]

they took a page out of the EA playbook, except they managed to make it worse lul

[Juke-destromath]

Funny because everyone was saying that most people were waiting for actual launch and weren’t subbed for the name reservation. People kept saying this and Blizzard did not listen.

[Frittata-herod]

Desire to see this fail so that they can think BFA is good.

[Yzzami-nesingwary (Yzzami)]

Because when the people who can’t handle pre-cata gameplay and questing quit, there will be a lot of servers needing people to fill them and it really would not look for blizzard good to merge servers on classic any time soon

[Floyln-tichondrius (Floyln)]

@Watcher

I understand the frustration: Anticipating and planning around jumping back into this world we’ve all missed, only to be stuck in a long queue, is not the experience we want anyone to have.

But from the start of planning for this launch, we’ve tried to prioritize the long-term health of our realm communities, recognizing that if we undershot the mark in terms of launch servers, we could move quickly to add additional realms in the opening hours. But if we went out with too many servers, weeks or months down the line we’d have a much tougher problem to solve. While we have tools like free character transfers available as a long-term solution to underpopulated realms, everything about that process would be tremendously disruptive to realm communities, and so it’s something we want to avoid as much as possible.

Thus, we took the path of launching with few enough realms to still thrive in the event that our most conservative estimates ended up proving accurate, while having enough servers ready to activate at a moment’s notice if needed. And clearly they were, and are, needed.

We’ve released over 20 new realms worldwide so far since launch, and we’ll be up around the clock continuing to do so until everyone who wants to experience Classic is able to. But even still, as we bring new realms online in a given region, we wait for them to fill before opening new ones, because we want to make sure that each and every realm has a healthy population in the long term.

Medium pop still has login queue

I understand the frustration: Anticipating and planning around jumping back into this world we’ve all missed, only to be stuck in a long queue, is not the experience we want anyone to have. But from the start of planning for this launch, we’ve tried to prioritize the long-term health of our realm communities, recognizing that if we undershot the mark in terms of launch servers, we could move quickly to add additional realms in the opening hours. But if we went out with too many servers, weeks…

[Juke-destromath]

That doesn’t explain how GROSSLY few servers there were. I understand keeping them lean and healthy. But it was GROSSLY under expected. They should have had minimum 15 NA servers to start. How they rolled it out is terrible. Stop trying to defend terrible decisions.

[Floyln-tichondrius (Floyln)]

I’m quoting the game director.

[Juke-destromath]

Doesn’t explain how they failed to adequately predict demand.

[Floyln-tichondrius (Floyln)]

It does actually. You just disagree.