Sure, there may be hardly any queue these days. But that doesn’t change the fact that SERVERS ARE OVERPOPULATED. This game world was not supposed to house 6k+ players at any one time.
Blizzard needs to reduce the realm capacity, and, while it will suck bringing back queues, they can assuage this by reopening server transfers.
Remember, this entire situation is completely blizzard’s fault for creating massive servers, botching up the launch by only having a handful of servers for the entire North American continent, not offering immediate servers transfers, expecting a massive fall off in the player base, etc. many, many, MANY mistakes and misjudgments were made.
Blizzard needs to fix these mistakes by keeping on allowing free server transfers while simultaneously reducing max realm population caps to more vanilla numbers.
I disagree! Remember this game only came 3-4 months ago and it’s still very fresh. In 1-2 years some of these servers might not even have enough players - so it seems there intention is to make a limited amount of servers to ensure long-term population longevity.
Remember when the forums were constantly complaining about being stuck in queue? Many people came here claiming that they all played on a private servers with 15k+ players playing co-currently with no layering - insisting that it didn’t feel overpopulated and the zones all felt fine.
Now people are here complaining about 6k + players being to much! Guess what will happen if they reduce the population caps of servers? The forums will be once again flooded with complaints about how sitting in queues is unacceptable blah blah blah…
You have to think long term about this - if they opened 10+ servers most of them will probably die due to lack of population in 2 years.
That argument falls flat because in both scenarios you end up with dead servers that can only be fixed with server merges. You can have 6 realms with +10k players or 12 realms with +5k players and if realms stagnate you can always merge.
Only that in the first option you will have overfarmed and oversized realms (like we do now) for no reason but to alienate most people to the game. The world was not designed for so many people in it.
The world was not designed for so many people in it.
Yet the fourms were complaining non-stop on how layering is ruining Classic WoW during Phase 1 and 15k+ players on a single layer is no problem - The constant complaints about being stuck in queue etc.
People come to the forums to complain and vent their frustration, fair enough. But most of the time they provide terrible suggestions. Once BG come out, people will complain about pre-mades, BG queue times and win-trading.
Ye they complain but that does not mean every complaint is invalid. Anyone who played vanilla or even PS knew the issues would arise just as we have em now. There is no reason why blizz did not double the severs and just cap em like they did in original vanilla which was 3k, which was also the amount of people each world could handle.
We could have had twice the server amount and if one of em or two died you could just merge… but no. they made a big fuss to have as few as possible, releasing 2-3 on launch day because they obv. underestimated the numbers and instead of having a solid plan on how to max cap servers (btw this is with the knowledge that we have crossfaction bgs!!!) they just put as many ppl on em as their awful cloud can handle, which it btw can not as has been proven many times on youtube.
All we have now is either servers that have WAY too many players on one realm or not enough on the “medium” servers. We are at a point where its impossible to decide what server to pick when you want to roll a new toon, because most of em are either too filled with horde (compared to alliance) or the playerbase itself is too big, because its +10k ppl on the high servers. You cant do anything on there.
On the other hand you cant pick “medium” either because its not enough people there either. And instead of providing a census or a nudge to the players on where to go, which servers have sweetspots or might need more/less people, they just flat out ban any census.
Every new server you roll on is a damocles sword and I do not understand why. Its easy to blame us players but they have the stats and we do not. And instead of just being transparent they cloud everything they can so nobody knows anything and every server you roll on is 100% a gamble.
I don’t think the cap is much higher than the original vanilla cap.
It just feels higher because there are more high level people of both factions because of the leveling knowledge we have at our disposal.
So instead of having 3500 people spread around 41 zones. You have 3500 people spread around a dozen or so, making it feel like its higher than it actually is. I bet its slightly higher than vanilla, maybe 4k, but not the 10k+ some people are claiming.
You might have 20-50 people per zone during primetime in the sub 45 zones, but then you have 2-400 in the 48+ zones. Where it was inverted the first few weeks.
blizzard always closes free transfers in advance of patches, presumably to avoid any complications. its not rocket science. they’ll be back in some form in a couple weeks.
no, just ‘connected realms’ which was a fancy way to merge servers without admitting they did so. anything that didnt get connected though has been left to rot. see: stormreaver retail.
Well we all know Classic is dying. Why layers where removed. Why transfers where closed. PvP realms have become carebear servers for the dominate faction.
Private servers where great having 15k+ on at any given time. Since they used a thing called dynamic spawans.
