So was layering a success?

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

Realm Layering Update

Over the five weeks since we launched WoW Classic, we’ve continuously monitored realm populations and utilized layering when necessary to handle launch populations. As we’ve said before, we will have all realms on a single layer before introducing world bosses, and a great deal of progress has been made toward that goal. First and foremost, players have leveled up and spread out around the world. This allowed us to accommodate more players per layer, which means fewer layers required per realm.…

Barely a month and a 3rd of the servers are 1 layer and the others are 2.

As opposed to 30 more dead servers all built to handle the 2 week bubble.

I still feel caving and release the last set of servers was unnecessary, and they are already dead just over a month in.

[Chillrot-fairbanks]

Barely a month and a 3rd of the servers are 1 layer and the others are 2.

were are you getting this information …we have no way of seeing how many layers there are…but they do need to remove it altogether sooner rather then later

[Grimian-faerlina]

They is a blue post about it that came out today…

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

Updated with link to blue post on the first page.

[Masr-faerlina]

Barely a month and a 3rd of the servers are 1 layer and the others are 2.

were are you getting this information …we have no way of seeing how many layers there are…but they do need to remove it altogether sooner rather then later

They literally said it in a blue post

[Suifang-emerald-dream]

I’m sure a small percentage of the community found them to be a resounding success.

[Jimbojohnson-incendius]

It successfully ruined the economy in a way that most servers will probably never really recover, if that’s success.

[Farrgus-azuresong]

I still feel caving and release the last set of servers was unnecessary, and they are already dead just over a month in.

I’d like to know your definition of dead. I’m on one of the servers that was recently locked to a single layer and this server is FAR from dead… there is a healthy, active population at any time I log in. Multiple groups forming for all dungeons any time of day (although I’ve not logged in between 1AM and 7 AM), questing zones full of people any time I log in.

[Bearevement-mankrik]

removal of layering is not a population thing… it is about the population in a single zone… like goldshire… when everyone starts together it will overload that zone…

as far as overall population… it is still rising steadily as more people figure out classic is back

[Chillrot-fairbanks]

They literally said it in a blue post

Oh nice I didn’t even notice that …ty

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

I’m sure a small percentage of the community found them to be a resounding success.

I would guess the portion that ISNT on a dead server now that the bubble is mostly passed is indeed happy.

[Communism-netherwind]

Well considering the xp abuse and resource abuse along with the dungeon bug a few weeks ago I’d say layering has left more scars than good, so no not really.

[Rozen-thalnos]

30 other servers wouldn’t be dead by vanilla standards. A low server in classic is a max pop in vanilla.

[Suifang-emerald-dream]

You know who.

[Vampa-whitemane]

Only inconvenience I’ve faced since the layering launched was the constant ‘layer inv’ spam in chat. I think it was a great tool.

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

You know who.

The incredibly small number of people who scammed it?

Excluding the other that were proven to be photoshopped and fake?

Like 100 people in a game with likely million(s)?

I thought classic was about catering to average players, not the 0.01%.

[Suifang-emerald-dream]

I did say a small %, but yes they and possibly by extension their guilds will probably never farm again.

[Klemp-kirtonos]

you literally cannot judge success, you don’t have the information necessary. It’s all about costs/benefit. You don’t know what it costs them to run the servers, you don’t know how much it cost to implement classic with layers in money and in time, how much it would cost to implement classic without layers in money and in time. There’s really no way for players to judge this that is meaningful.

[Venthos-pagle]

Overall and understanding the alternative outcome, yes layering was successful. Blizzard was right. Simply spawning as many servers as needed at launch would’ve left us with virtually all of them being at very low populations by this time.

I still feel caving and release the last set of servers was unnecessary, and they are already dead just over a month in.

I am similarly concerned here. They definitely seemed to have helped the “donor” servers that were being transferred away from into becoming healthy servers. But I worry for those last batch of fresh servers and whether they will be sustainable. But, if it weren’t for those last batch of fresh servers, would queues have been so frustrating to result in more cancellations than if they didn’t?

Technically, those servers can be condensed down again if need be. But that’d be quite a garbage experience for those players if that’s where that ends up.

[Ohshiftson-stalagg]

Layering succeeded in its goal.

It also caused all the issues we expected it would. I’m just glad it’s nearing its end already. Unfortunately, I’m on a big realm, so we’re still being kept at 2 layers.