Where are the BFA queues to log in?

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I want to play WoW any WoW, but BFA is a ghost town , but even at BFA release they were no queues, what changed in the server system?

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Because the retail game uses sharding and spins up new virtual shards to support load. Classic doesn’t and the servers can not support dumping thousands of players into a starter zone.

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There are lots of people online on my server right now. No shortage of people to play with. I have 38 guildies online right now.

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Count the number of realms each game version has.

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This. Also retail has over 100 servers, whereas they tried to launch classic with 15 or so.

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We have more servers.

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I had zero queues at 11:30pm PDT yesterday, and none at 10:30am PDT today for Classic.

And I’m going back to BfA. I still have content to do there.

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Some full servers had long messed up queue’s at launch. The rest is as people said, a lot more servers with tech that supports it now. Classic servers launched to very few and don’t have the tech to support the influx of thousands going in.

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I play classic by day and Retail by night. Feel like Clark Kent

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Capacity capacity capacity.

Retail WoW has 240+ servers.

Classic WoW has 30.

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I just was involved in probably the biggest wpvp for me on my main between Newhome and Mezz since BFA has started. BFA seems pretty active to me.

Both sides were pretty equal and it was a blast.

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Bait.

Let the Retail folks have their game. No need to crap all over it. Different people like different things.

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Doesn’t it have over 200?

Oops sorry Rollo already posted how many.

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Yeah I didn’t count the Asia servers ha. There are over 100 NA/Oceanic servers.

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I can’t even imagine being as dumb as the OP. WOD didn’t have queues and subs hit 10 million at launch. It’s almost like they are using completely different server technology for retail vs classic.

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Not sure what you mean by ghost town my server is not even close to one to many people here full server ftw!

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Retail has way more servers, sharding and way more areas for people to be in classic will thin out as the player base spreads out

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WoD most definitely had queues at launch. I would afk in RFC with mobs attacking me so I would stay in combat and not afk out into the queue. WoD was when they implemented the tech we have now which pretty much abolished server queues, but they didn’t have it in place at launch.

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That was true i logged off by mistake once big mistake back then was a nightmare.

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I just looked and Live has 21 full and 28 high realms currently with the rest being medium to low and new players. Classic has 6 full with the rest being medium to low. I think the death of Live because of Classic was a myth lol.