So Blizzard has announced the date when character creation will be available but not the realm names that we need to know so we can organize with our friends when it happens.
What if they don’t need to give us realm names because there is only going to be 1 realm of each type for each region?
For instance:
PVE - US East
PVE - US West
PVP - US East
PVP - US West
RP - US East
RP - US West
PVE - Oceanic
PVP - Oceanic
RP - Oceanic
PVE - EU
PVP - EU
RP - EU
Obviously, a separate one for each different language that they are doing.
I think the layering system could make this a viable option and while I’m not the biggest fan of layering, it didn’t break anything for me during the beta testing.
I kind of like this idea as it removes the faction imbalance issues that arise with having many different realms for each region. The only drawback I see is getting my character name and we know when that happens.
12 servers would likely be hundreds of thousands of people per server, maybe even a million+ the first week. That would be a lot of layers. I would think they would have at least 5-10 times that many.
We’ll definitely know before. They’ve said they’ll announce the server details before character creation opens up. They know we need to be able to discuss which on, before the list appears in game. But it’ll most likely not be until after the stress test.
While we haven’t yet finalized the numbers of realms and realm types for each language, we’ll let you know those details before name reservations start on August 13.
We’ll have more information on realm names closer to launch, but rest assured—you’ll have plenty of time to figure out your plans for realm domination!
Blizzard said in one of their announcements that sometime early august they are going to let people create characters to reserve names so that is when some realms will be shown or should.
No, but there could easily be several million the first week, including everyone who currently plays BFA (the so called “tourists”). Not every server is equally populated. There are high and low pop servers.
And there’s an equal and opposite fallacy that because you don’t like something, the rest of the world must not like it, too.
12 servers will not be enough if they plan on sticking to the promise of removing layering by Phase 2. Say the goal is an average of 10,000 people per server with no layering (which a very high cap). That’s 120,000 people. There will be far more than that playing Classic when Phase 2 hits.
I’m hoping we get the Server list at least a week prior to the Aug. 13 character creation date, so groups of players coming to Classic together have some time to discuss and correlate where they’re headed.
Even if those groups already know they’re going to a PvP or RP server, knowing if it’s East/West Coast or perhaps picking one that other groups of players they know of will be calling home - all of that takes a few days to sort out, and a week’s seems like the minimum safe amount, in my opinion.
That’d be pretty unimaginative because it kinda hurts the fantasy element of it. Who wants to tell their friends they play on “PvP - US East”, what a buzzkill. I don’t think there’s any conspiracy behind reasoning, they probably don’t even have any names yet because lets be real they’re unlikely to really ponder unique names to come up with for long periods and will randomly select unused names either from lore or just make ones up that sound like they’d belong in the warcraft universe. I wouldn’t be shocked if they just used a random name generator based similarly to the formula they’ve got at character creation. Oug’magkar, sounds orcish, bam one server named already.
Also, they already mentioned the name reservation or w/e like a week before launch? Why would we get server names before then? /shrug, but I’d be happy to know the planned names before then if they don’t decide em all in one day.