Overcrowded Realm Update

[Irisse-maelstrom]

In other words, the smallest realms in Classic are going to be more lively than the largest realms on retail.

Or rather they would be, except for the layering.

[Irisse-maelstrom]

Classic is an experiment, and I have full faith that blizzard has contingency plans for any number of scenarios.

Apparently they didn’t have contingency plans for streamers. Maybe this massive preference for streamer free servers will give them a clue that streamers are a negative, not a positive, influence on the game.

[Lunavale-bleeding-hollow (Lunavale)]

If you were SERIOUS about getting players off of Herod you wouldn’t have named the new server Stalagg…

How to get people off of Herod:

1. Announce the creation of a new EST pvp server several days in advance

2. Name this server Ashbringer (Thunderfury is acceptable as well)

3. Lock this server for a day or two so that new characters can’t be created on it

4. Offer character transfers from Herod to the new server so people have a chance to keep their names

5. Unlock character creation at some point

6. ???

7. Profit

Course, this only helps Herod and completely ignores the other servers which will have a similar problem…

[Pittyyungtin-magtheridon]

We need an add-on that puts fake characters around us in the cities.

[Orladin-lightnings-blade]

To me, the issue is that everyone wants to play with the people that they played with back in the day. But if everyone from every original EST server is picking Herod, this will never work. Like, for me, I want to be wherever all/most of the old Lightning’s Blade people are going to be. It would be a complete fail to have 1/2 of them on Stalagg and 1/2 of them on Herod. So really, the players need to all agree on a server and all move together. Some old EST servers should stay on Herod and other old EST servers would agree to populate Stalagg instead. That is the only way that I see a true balance without splitting old alliances.

But I also agree that stupid server names will not help either. I personally would never pick ‘Stalagg’ ever. I’d rather wait in a que to play.

[Zolivigant-thrall]

LOL WUT?! And what do you suggest they do when someone does stream on the server, ban them?

[Alael-madoran (Alael)]

Offer character transfers from Herod to the new server so people have a chance to keep their names

Something to do before transfers: Copy the reserved names of players they have on Herod to Ashbringer. Then, allow them to basically delete on Herod, and have a guaranteed reclaim on the new server. Anything abandoned on Herod or unclaimed on Ashbringer is unlocked after the transfer period.

[anon39600689]

It would probably help if you raised the account-wide cap on character creation so people could actually reserve their names on other servers. I’m not giving up the names that I have on Herod only to find out that they’re already taken on another server.

[Keritanima-proudmoore]

If you are an East Coast player than yes they don’t exist

[Troom-kelthuzad]

Change server name

[Keritanima-proudmoore]

You so realize that the “Eastern” servers are physically located in Chicago which is in the Central time zone?

[Maev-twisting-nether]

Kaivax, no matter what you say or ask of the people in WoW classic, most will not listen. What will happen on Herod (amongst others), the queues will show up. People will get upset and blame Blizzard for all their troubles. Most people will not move off of Herod because they think they are set for launch day. They will not move to another server because they expect others to do that so they won’t have to. It will be a few days after launch before it occurs to them “Hey maybe I should move to another server!” Otherwise all we will see is forums fill up with more hateful posts about Blizzard screwed up and it’s not our fault.

[Oruttu-stormscale]

That’s not a good indicator for real launch conditions either. By allowing only active subs to reserve names, you have much more accurate numbers. You KNOW they have an active sub and can safely bet that they’ll at least TRY classic on launch. If you let Joe Whoever reserve a name, but they haven’t been subbed in 7 years, you have no reasonable way to assume they will actually be playing.

Also, can you imagine the absolute whinging that would happen in the forums/wow communities if you let non-subbed also reserve names? I can see the posts now.

“I pay for this game and my name was probably taken by someone who hasn’t payed in 10 years. Wow, Blizz really cares about their customers”.

If you want to believe that there’s only one motivation possible for Blizzard’s active-sub condition, go for it. Just don’t fall for outrage culture.

[Energy-kelthuzad]

Your perspective on the importance of a server name is laughable. The majority of people could care less what text is at the top of their character select screen.

[Fesz-cenarius]

My only beef with Blizzard at this point is that they don’t lock the servers before they become “massively overpopulated.”

If you want a guild or friends or family to play on the same realm, you should have agreed to create your characters at roughly the same time. Why would anyone expect a server where early birds reserved some names to continue to be available two weeks later when the game goes live?

Why would anyone expect any server to be lovked and unavailable?

Has Blizzard ever locked any servers in the past?

[Metrotoxin-tichondrius]

seems some faith has been restored in the people, good job blizza

[Sasuva-wyrmrest-accord (Sasuva)]

What should we expect for Herod in the future? My friends are reluctant to move off, so will we be forced to move if things get bad enough?

[Sokajoo-chogall]

They’ll never force you to transfer. However you’ll be highly incentivized through day long queues. 10,000+ queues means you have to wait for a bare minimum of 10,000 people to log out before you get in. Then if you get disconnected and relog, you’re in the queue again.

[Fakque-guldan]

When will you understand that people want to be on the biggest server? We have all been on a “dead” server and it sucked. If you know a certain amount will be on one server then increase the capacity on that server because we will only want to be on that server. Period. Those who don’t want to be on the biggest will go to the rest. It is that simple.

[Fakque-guldan]

Herod for life! I am still not over the fact I never got Herod’s shoulders back in the day on my hunter. I farmed that place over and over. It nearly never dropped and the two times it did someone else ninjad them. Herod is for real the only name I have an honest connection with and man am I happy the biggest server on classic is Herod.