Overcrowded Realm Update

Holycow-uldaman · August 16, 2019, 9:21pm

I doubt it.

If Herod’s queues are horrendous, I doubt Blizzard will turn off layering for that realm.

Grokma-jaedenar · August 16, 2019, 9:22pm

Let them sit in queue and offer free transfers. It’s blizzard’s M.O.

Justan-skullcrusher · August 16, 2019, 9:22pm

Insulting already? my my, how childish.

You can agree to disagree like an adult, you know.

I’ve been on overpopulated servers, and dead servers and i’d take waiting an hour to log in every day before rolling on the lower pop server.

Amadan-moon-guard · August 16, 2019, 9:22pm

That seems like a negative for Herod either way. RIP Herod I guess if that is the case.

Aitadis-mannoroth · August 16, 2019, 9:22pm

Stalagg went from announcement to live in I believe less than 8 hours, giving my guild, friends and me zero time to deliberate whether we wanted to make the switch there and whether we should delete characters on Herod to reserve it on Stalagg. While yes their are others servers, they are not ideal as they are either West Coast, PvE or also already full. Some of the people I know who have names on Herod that they like, were unable to get them on Stalagg due to the short notice given.

Bricklethumb-anvilmar · August 16, 2019, 9:24pm

He said they WILL and they have been warned!

Tokgal-area-52 · August 16, 2019, 9:25pm

This made me re-sub for classic again.

Thank you blizzard for confirming this

Yuvie-illidan · August 16, 2019, 9:25pm

So based on the population density of NA, you have a lot more people that benefit from east coast time zone/chicago based servers for ping. That makes Eastern Servers more alluring. However, 2 of the eastern servers become highly undesirable when Thalnos has been claimed by brazilians (because blizzard failed to give them their own server) and Faerlina is the streamer server (leads to an inorganic world, and plenty of memery that wants to be avoided by many). So that left Herod, or fairbanks. Fairbanks is not an EST realm, and its not been published where the server physically is yet. So your only real option as the MAJORITY of the playerbase is herod. Stalagg just opened, but theres lots of inertia with getting people to switch servers. Everyone wants to play immediately on a server that won’t die, so a middle ground might just be impossible.

Morgonha-tol-barad · August 16, 2019, 9:25pm

The solution for relieving Herod’s population: bribe streamers to move to that server.

Eloraell-moon-guard · August 16, 2019, 9:25pm

Only if people refuse to listen to Blizzard outright asking you to move.

Grokma-jaedenar · August 16, 2019, 9:25pm

What they said was each layer is approximately the same as a vanilla server’s population cap. In the end they will condense down to one layer. Hence once layering is gone the server will be at the vanilla concurrent pop cap.

Vallahad-emerald-dream · August 16, 2019, 9:25pm

Same with the guild I am rolling with, just decided after a quick discord discussion it was pointless to go. There’s going to be a strong economy and population no chance of it going dead and we are in for the long haul.

Amadan-moon-guard · August 16, 2019, 9:26pm

I get that but that was mostly me reacting to people who seemed to be only taking Herod and w/e server the streamers are going to be on as the only pvp servers being really talked about in this thread beside the newer one. Unless I was missing some other reason why the other servers were not brought up.

Khel-wyrmrest-accord · August 16, 2019, 9:26pm

sry not sry

ur 10k queue will be more than an hour (lmao) just to get into a server so massively populated that doing anything not instanced will be an absolute nightmare once they permanently turn off layering in phase 2

servers won’t be dead even if they’re below medium pop with how their caps are right now. literally a low pop server is still in the range of a max pop vanilla realm.

Bricklethumb-anvilmar · August 16, 2019, 9:26pm

All servers are for ALL people. . No one owns or claims anything.

Tofey-the-underbog · August 16, 2019, 9:26pm

Hey people…Blizz is not asking you to do anything if you dont want…All they are saying is if you dont switch off Herod then enjoy the 4 hour que to get in…

Pheonixdown-ghostlands · August 16, 2019, 9:26pm

With gleeful delight Pheonixdowns places a cookie in the palm of Erniemiser hand
The light has blessed this Elf.

Cirq-darkspear · August 16, 2019, 9:27pm

PLEASE MAKE A NEW EASTERN PVP SERVER AND NAME IT THADDIUS. thanks blizz

Broyolo-arthas · August 16, 2019, 9:27pm

Kaivax:

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 evenly as possible before launch, in order to provide the best play experience.

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.

Please also note that our realm population estimates of Low, Medium, High, and Full are based on this increased capacity – a Medium realm today already has more characters on it than even the most crowded realms did back in 2006.

Our top priority in planning for WoW Classic’s launch has been ensuring that we are laying the groundwork for strong realm communities that will endure over the months and years to follow, which is why we’re cautiously opening new servers to meet demand.

Unless this has already been asked, will a community manager be updating us on the estimated Herod populace before next week? I would venture a week from today (Friday) so on the 23rd?

I feel this would offer two benefits…

Obviously let us know that the exodus some have made to the new server is not enough and that more would be needed to help balance server load.
Give guild leaders that are in coordination with other guilds across both factions (such as myself) time to speak with their members about switching servers as a collective community.

As I type this, I’ve been involved with some wonderful organization between about a 15 guilds (Horde and Alliance) that wish to roll the same server for world PvP reasons. I’d venture to say there is between 500-750 of us between the guilds. Should we get an update next Friday, it would be HUUUUUUGE in helping our decision(s).

Any info will be greatly appreciated.

Onni-antonidas · August 16, 2019, 9:27pm

Again, you can’t say the feedback wasn’t there. People said to launch with a decent amount of servers and you guys initially came out with 11 during the name reservations. Anyone could see that that wasn’t going to be enough.