“Therefore, we felt that the best approach here was to start off with fewer realms in order to gauge player interest during the name reservation period. “We wanted to hold true to our main objective of ensuring healthy realm communities in a post-Launch world.”

This could lead to free Realm transfers in the future to help alleviate server issues after launch. “That is why we strongly encourage players to use the name reservation period to transfer their characters and their guilds to lower pop realms.” “On the most popular servers, such as Herod and Shazzrah, we are currently estimating lengthy queue times - up to several hours or more in certain instances,” Blizzard confirms.

If these numbers haven’t changed and player numbers remain all over the place, we could see a very rough launch for WoW Classic. We should hear more from Blizzard on these ongoing issues before the big launch however, there’s no guarantee it will be good news. Doing so will help spread the player population as evenly as possible before launch and provide the best play experience for everyone. Trying to combat this issue, Blizzard has opened two new PvP realms this week, including:Īnd Blizzard is urging players on PvP realms to consider moving to one of these realms. “Raising realm caps would simply forestall the problem, letting more players in at launch but creating an unsustainable situation down the line, with severe queues when we turn off layering permanently before Phase 2 of our content unlock plan.” “While we are able to fit several times more players on a single realm in 2019 than was the case in 2006, we are not going to raise that cap any further, even though we have the technical capacity to do so. “This is so that player population is spread as evenly as possible before launch, in order to provide the best play experience. There are a lot of players currently on Herod and we want Stalagg to fill up before we open any new PvP realms. “We recently opened up the Stalagg realm, and we urge players on Herod to consider moving there. “If all existing players on this server remain there, login queues in excess of 10,000 players are a certainty, and possibly much higher than that. “Based on name reservations so far, the Herod realm is looking to be massively overpopulated,” the Blizzard statement adds.

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