Wait, NONE in central time zone? What?
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Kaviax please help us by telling us the data center location for each server. There are current eastern time zone realms in modern wow hosted in los angeles data centers. Please help clear up where the data for each server is hosted.
Needed 20 realms minimum, probably 25 TBH
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Missed an opportunity there Blizz.
Normal couldâve been named after raids:
- AhnâQiraj
- Blackwing Lair
- Molten Core
- Naxxramas
PvP named after Battlegrounds:
- Alterac Valley
- Arathi Basin
- Warsong Gulch
- Hillsbrad
- Stranglethorn
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Honestly it is super silly to even care about server names. I mean Grobbulus wouldnât have been my first choice, but itâs going to have zero impact on my gameplay experience.
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Wouldnât the term be Oozes or Slimes?
Grabbass would have been better
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I kind of thought the names were going to be the same ones from the original launch. Not that it really matters in the long run. I do think they will need more servers though. Glad Iâm not playing at launch.
Explain what? The information on how to run a traceroute to check your own latency? Those IP addresses are for the data centers, not the servers in the data centers. Nothing in that post is not available anywhere else and the only relevant information is the IP address specifically set up to receive pings and trace routes.
Please point to a single place where Blizzard has said âServer X is in the Chicago datacenterâ ever.
EDIT: Re-reading my post, when I said âdatacenter locationsâ I mean which servers are in which data centers.
Aw, Atiesh wouldâve been an awesome name for the RPPVP server!
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First of all, I wasnât the person you were originally replying to. Second of all, what idiotic backwards world do you live in where itâs the consumerâs obligation to pay $20 a month to inform a company of their intention to use their product later that year?
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Yeah Slimes would probably be better since thereâs slimes in the Grobbulus fight.
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13 servers works out to a concurrency of about 39K players after the dust settles, assuming they go for 3k/realm. Which would be in line with a player population of somewhere between 60K and 100K players I think.
Considering the private server population was estimated to be in the 200-thousandish range globally it looks like theyâre being (overly) conservative in their plans.
Weâll see what they do during the first week. If they start spinning off additional servers, we know weâve beat their conservative forecast.
âRelative realm population will be visible in-game to help in choosing a realm so you will see Low, Medium, or High in the realm selection screen.â Umm they are ALL going to be HIGH population
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I agree. itâs ridiculous, makes me sick. blizzard doesnât even have to do this for us and all through beta, stress test and now to launch has all been more crying on the forumsâŚ
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I donât wish loss of job on anyone but the realm names certainly mirror a complete lack of understanding of what a potential player would want. Names of realms and toons are a very important part of the experience. There may be a small subset of mostly young guys who wouldnât mind playing Suppermanz the Orc on Butarepirates realm but most of us want attractive names on normal-sounding realms.
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All the memers will go to Mankrik.
Grobbulus will be my home. I kinda like that itâs a terrible server name, as weâll know people are rolling there because they truly want an RP-PvP experience, and not because itâs a cool sounding server 
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This entire comment is delicious in its irony. Thanks for that.
You also have to remember that private servers donât require a sub. Itâs a lot easier to get people to stick around when it doesnât cost them anything.
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Yep same here 