Queues are on purpose, Blizzard has sharding

[Derka-wyrmrest-accord (Derka)]

OG didn’t have paid transfers, so there’s a likelihood Classic won’t either.

Yeah it did.

[Tuskamus-area-52 (Tuskamus)]

Blizzard has the ability to open up servers to unlimited players with sharding

While that is technically true, Blizzard has promised to remove layering by phase two. If they just add layers now, it will become impossible to live up to that promise down the road.

[Hyjinx-zuljin (Hyjinx)]

Oh my bad, it had it for half a year before BC launched… with a 1 character limit every half a year.

[Khuzah-zuljin]

Don’t feed the trolls guys

[Drougen-emerald-dream (Drougen)]

Blizzard has the ability to open up servers to unlimited players with sharding

Hell no, sharding killed retail. If you want sharding, go play retail PLEASE leave.

[Sheewulf-nazgrel]

Maximum Realm Capacity Increased – August 28

With hotfixes that we are currently deploying to all WoW Classic realms, we are substantially increasing the number of players that can be simultaneously logged in and playing. We expect this to result in smaller queues for realms that have large queues, and some realms should no longer have queues at all. We will closely monitor performance and stability throughout this process. Thank you very much.

Yes, they are increasing pop caps but that isn’t always a good thing. More demand on the servers means, among other issues, more heat. If anyone works in the HVAC industry, they know that these server buildings are severely controlled and if something goes wrong…

[Imma-bigglesworth]

A layer is a giant shard.

[Ashael-kiljaeden]

And isn’t that what they are doing today?

[Motors-korgath (Motors)]

It’s for buzz, stock price, stupidity, but it isn’t because of technology or lag or any other reason.

Another expert opinion, clearly no tin foil hat action here. Move along, move along.

[Summerayné-alexstrasza (Summerayné)]

They aren’t using sharding for Classic, thankfully. They are using layering for phase 1 until the population stabilizes.

[Imma-bigglesworth]

What is that cap???

[Xianmisuto-thrall (Xianmisuto)]

1. It’s LAYERING not sharing. 100% completely different technology. If you aren’t smart enough to understand this. Stop talking about it.
2. No you can’t have unlimited players on server though layers because it puts stress on the ACTUAL server. Period. Again if you aren’t smart enough to know this. Stop talking about it.
3. Stop taking about things you have no clue what you are talking about.

[Xianmisuto-thrall (Xianmisuto)]

Actually vanilla did have paid transfers put into it.

[Imma-bigglesworth]

Yes it did, a mt in the best guild ninjaed the bank at the end of vanilla while in naxx

[Xianmisuto-thrall (Xianmisuto)]

What bank? What are you talking about? Guild banks didn’t exist in Vanilla.

[Imma-bigglesworth]

Then i guess you wernt in a server first raiding guild.

[Vilepain-illidan]

All hardware has limitations. It’s not like one box has an infinite amounts of RAM. The way they manage it is by setting a hard cap. ie. A set number of boxes they will run for that realm. This is why there is a queue. The cap is reached so you must wait for someone to log off. They also just put out a blue stating they raised the cap.

[Vilepain-illidan]

They haven’t given a number. What they did say, it was higher than what the original vanilla server cap was and in a recent blue post they said they raised the limit. Whatever that number is.

[Asfasf-lightnings-blade]

Yeah I don’t watch or care for any streamers honestly, good edit though. Those queue’s on non streamer servers will be gone within 2 weeks. Blitz is doing this the right way

[Critness-lightbringer]

I want sharding for the initial wave so I can play. And then remove it so that there is one world.