I believe most people have created 1 character on 3 different servers, problem is, were are not playing on 3 realms. Expect the servers, especially the original ones, to actually have 33% of their stated population, those realms won’t be full, not even close and Blizzard is releasing more realms, spreading the players even thinner.
I subbed 4 accounts and made 10 on main realm. 2 on backup.
I have thought of this too. I would assume this is something Blizzard has thought of as well though and them letting us reserve three names they have used as a gauge, so I don’t think it will make a huge difference and it’s something they have taken into account when looking at the realms. They can see where each individual account has made their characters for example.
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Do you have any data to support this claim?
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I made all 3 on the same realm to save names for alts.
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This was my thinking too.
Players who created all 3 toons on a Full server will probably stay there even with queues.
Players with 1 toon on 3 servers will leave for the server with the shortest queue.
What we don’t know is which players went all in on 1 server vs which players are playing it safe with 3 options.
Guilds will be more stubborn about moving, since it’s a pain to get a large group of people to recreate on a new server with no guarantee of name choice.
But solo players wouldn’t really have any issues realm hopping.
you believe wrong, can guarantee that.
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First, that is just speculation.
Second, I’m sure it’s easy enough for Blizzard to see this and factor that in.
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You really think the company that brought back Classic can’t do some math to already figure this out?
But if there are three layers per server, and the population of a “full” server is divided by three, then what we end up with is a full server.
stop pulling numbers out of your ar$e
I made one on each realm, because I’m still not sure which faction I want to play or whether or not I want to play on a PVP server.
all 3 of mine are on the same realm…
Originally, that is exactly what I did: I made the same toon on three different realms, because my main’s guild hadn’t decided on which one when the name reservation opened.
But now that we have picked our realm, I deleted the two on the other realms and made two on the realm we chose, so now I have three on the same realm.
I don’t know how many people did that, but I’m guessing I’m not the only one. So while what I did originally may have contributed to increased population on two of the three servers I saved a name on, that is no longer the case.
However, I remained concerned about queues because I am going to be on a PVE server, and three of the four of them are now Full pop and the fourth is High. So it seems like we will be doing a lot of waiting on launch day and the first week per Blizz’s pop update posts, unless they open up new PVE realms and my guild decides to jump to one of them last minute.
/moo 
The best they could do is estimate, which is the same thing they are doing related to how many subs are coming in Monday.
Obviously, a single person is not able to use more than one character simultaneously.
So if you create one character on 3 different servers, how should that be counted?
1 full character on each of the three servers (1,1,1)?
1/3 of a character on each of the three servers (1/3, 1/3, 1/3)?
Guess as to which one they’ll actually use ((0|1),(0|1),(0|1))?
Each of those has issues compounded by how many people actually do this. Of course, not everyone will be on at exactly the same time, so there are estimates around how many people will actually be online Monday at go-live (and after), probably just based on a flat percentage.
what if… just what if… the full thing already counts for that… 
Where you get those “facts” bruh? madeuponthespot dot com?
Imagine what the server pops will look like when the last pre-release servers are opened at 11AM monday, and everyone can utilize the remaining 47 character slots on their accounts, 5 hours before the game is actually playable.
Full x (3/10) hehe
Oh my sweet summer gnome…