Could you provide a link to where they confirmed they can’t make a shared realm? I’m curious about this. As they have clustered realms for WoW Classic.
I did read the update from 18 hours ago that spoke to the inability to increase realm size of a single server. This is in relation to layers or sharding though, which is not what I’ve suggested.
“One common suggestion we get is to “just add more layers”, and it’s very important to understand that layers do not add in any way to capacity.”
“This functions in some contrast to the “sharding” system that modern World of Warcraft uses which basically does the same thing but spins up additional shards on a per-zone or per-area basis.”