Overcrowded Realm Update

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

What about faction balance? Wouldn’t it be good to have devs review what the current faction numbers look like and then communicate this to the community?

No.

This would have the opposite effect. It would cause more and severe imbalances.

[Crooge-medivh]

I made toons on Herod and Stalagg.

10K queue?

Heck no. Stalagg, here I come!

[Chrias-aggramar]

I think it’s best to wait and see. Even me logging into my RP realm for a few days won’t be perfect. The initial launch for Herod and even other full realms will be insane. There is way too much hype. After the first week only primetime will have queues, IMO

[Pheonixdown-ghostlands]

That isn’t really blindingly obvious anything. I can roll on herod make my name “dfhsbxhzjs” then hop on the xferonly realm and take Thex

Incorrect.
Your character, “dfhsbxhzjs” , would be transferred, retaining the name.

[Cayinasia-stormrage]

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.

Has anyone deciphered this word salad? Are the caps on the realms higher than they were in 2006? Or are they refusing to raise them? Man this was really worded unfortunately for something I expect we ALL would love to know the answer to.

In Phase 2, will realm caps for online players be higher than they were in 2006 or not. Getting an answer now could save the devs from us spamming this during the AMA.

[Kochegar-stormrage]

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.

Perfect. Best line for me. I’m glad you’re all thinking far ahead with how cautiously you opening up new realms. You have my full support of that. Go Classic team!

[Etheleam-hyjal (Etheleam)]

I played on an RP server in Cata, and it was some of the most fun I had in game.

I ultimately left to play with RL friends, but I’m super excited for Grobbulus!

Though I’m probably going Alliance this time around

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

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.

I assume this applies to retail sever estimates as well?

[Kayrina-kiljaeden]

The use of the words “any further” makes it clear he’s saying the realms are using the 2019 cap and are not going to get even higher than that.

[Neveahxx-wyrmrest-accord]

the Herod realm is looking to be massively overpopulated.

That’s no server. That’s a cyber space station.

[Chrias-aggramar]

Ah yeah you’re right

[Dëmentia-aerie-peak]

All I’m getting from this is Herod is fat.

Real servers have curves…

[Crooge-medivh]

They should have just locked Herod when they hit the original cap.

They could have always unlocked it if the pop dropped later on.

I know splitting up friends stinks, but people who want this old-school MMORPG style just can’t accept technological limits.

[Cronox-korgath (Cronox)]

You do realize that name reservation isn’t about money grabbing at all right? XD

The whole point of name reservation and early character creation was to ease the server stress on launch day AND giving communities a way to setup beforehand.

I swear some people will never be happy…

[Azmerk-norgannon]

The caps are higher then they were in 2006. And they will not raise them beyond their current point. If that helps

[Siireon-area-52]

Either now or at launch people will switch thanks to your post. I see a 10+ hour login que happening regardless though.

Better get a cool name on Stalagg while you can imo.

[Aryxymaraki-earthen-ring (Aryxymaraki)]

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.

While I appreciate the update, this bothers me. I played on a medium pop to low pop server back then, and really loved it. I tried a high pop server and did not like it. This is bothersome to me, but I’m probably the only one bothered by it.

Before anyone tries to ‘educate’ me on the value of a high pop server, please don’t. I’ve already heard it all before. Thanks.

It’s because of layering. When they say that the population will be higher than even a high pop server, that’s because they’re adding together all the layers to get the total population.

Each layer won’t be “above the highest Vanilla population”, but the server as a whole will be, at least until layering is shut off. Then at that point we’ll have to see where we are. I imagine that if, when layering is shut off, every single server is Full pop, they’ll open some new ones.

[Cirq-darkspear]

I highly encourage anyone that wants an ‘authentic’ classic experience to not roll on Herod. It will be full of private server autist guilds that will skew the experience… and they already have set rosters

[Kharapos-hyjal]

It hasnt done either.

[Crooge-medivh]

If Stalagg becomes the default PLAN B, what happens if that fills up on Day 1 with all the people having queue-rage over Herod?

BTW - can I claim a copyright on “queue-rage”?