I would never have seen this coming even if I had played this game for the last 15 years at its highest level and understood the Classic community in a way only a true neckbeard would, having written content for it, sat in guild coalition meetings, lead a 500+ person guild or loved this game so much as to change my life to play it.
Truly no one could have predicted this.
Or just give Herod a two-day transfer period before opening it up to all. Problem solved.
when they are forced to spread out else face incredibly long queues, they will go to other servers.
servers are already more populated than the most packed classic servers once they reach medium pop.
even these servers at medium or higher population will be facing massive problems post-layering because the game world is not large enough to support that amount of people. more servers need to be made, and server population caps need to be massively reduced if they want to avoid this.
brace yourself for an absolute crapshoot once layering is gone in p2 on anything medium+. iâve already had plenty of experience with vanilla servers that could reach 10k+ concurrent populations and i do not look forward to it again
also unrelated to your post, i dont buy this idea that population fall off is going to be enough to kill a server. other games that have done similar things still have plenty healthy populations
Herod is going to have to need to have so many layers of itself⌠That place is going to be an absolute mosh pit when layering gets shut off. Truly an actual wonder of the world, a spectacle to behold. And I will stay as far away from it as I possibly can.
Can you consider opening up new realms for other server types, and not just the streamer server?
I actually think itâs kinda the opposite, higher population servers with queues always have the lowest % of drop off, and if anything, gain players from the lesser # realms.
Iâd feel more encouraged to roll on a full server than a medium one.
Please make a new Eastern PvP server named THADDIUS ⌠AKA CHADDIUS. IT WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM TRUST ME
Itâs like you all didnât read this part.
Please also note that our realm population estimates of Low, Medium, High, and Full are based on this increased capacity â a Medium realm today already has more characters on it than even the most crowded realms did back in 2006.
Sure. Something that guarantees players get to keep the same names, so itâs not a risk to switch realms.
I would consider switching if you guys didnât block unsubbed players from accessing the character creation screen on Stalagg so we could reserve our names. Itâs probably too late for my buddy and I to save our names now, though. We already have them on Herod.
You can bet on herod having one of the more fun launch days
Or just straight up call it Chaddius. LOL
The world is meant for 2500-3k concurrent players. Megaservers are not vanilla, thats pirate server nonsense and needs to stay there. When you overpopulate you lose the community, and ruin the core parts of the game.
This does seem like the best bandaid possible for now. And if the populations truly drop off as much as everyone is predicting, merge the damned servers then. Initial server health is the more important than the kind of predictions people are making about later on, which may or may not come true to varying degrees.
You guys set this up for failure. People already got their names reserved. Guilds already committed to Herod. Now youâre asking people who got their ideal names reserved to go to the new realm, but you donât add more name reservations so people cant even hope of reserving their name elsewhere.
Give players more name reservations so we can even consider going to the new realm. Iâm not deleting my âLegolasâ name to go to a new server.
Additional note, friends and family of current players who plan to play but wonât until launch will want to go Herod to play with friends. Your expected queues may not even consider another large portion of the launch player base.
⌠and theyâll still do it. Donât roll on Herod if you donât want huge queues.
And itâs space would be smaller than any of these servers, and be more overcrowded than Herod, leading to people complaining because there werenât enough non-layering serversâŚ
And if Blizzard gives in, it destroys the population because whiny people quit anyway.
this propaganda will not take me away from Herod, nice try Blizzard! <3
I donât play pirate servers, and do not support piracy at all.
We are already past what âthe world was meant forâ so that argument is kinda lost, plus we have layering so again, moot point.
This is a BLIZZ problem, not a player problem.
Herod being jam packed is a good thing
Well I agree that Bloodsail Buccaneers should of been the RP-PvP server name but I really like Herod its a cool name.
layering is only going to be a thing for phase 1 you doof
your server is going to have 10k queues. ive played on servers with 10k populations and it was disgusting how overpopulated the actual in game world was to the point where my entire guild left to play somewhere else.