Zones like Plaguelands or Blasted Lands or Desolace are supposed to be desolate, not brimming with adventurers.
Quest mobs are supposed to be numerous and plentiful – that is why NPCs are asking us to deal with the problem to begin with.
I want to play World of Warcraft, no whack-a-mole reaction game of who tags a mob first. The terrible layer overpopulation problem needs to be addressed immediately. The game is now unplayable, and I am not even talking about how it ruins immersion.
Either triple the number of layers, or give us an option to play on a small server like before. I would rather have bad AH than the saturday shopping mall experience that we have now
Small servers aren’t the solution because it didn’t work, they all died. That said, the mega servers with layers also doesn’t work. There are far too many players on each layer making spawn competition unbearable, gathering professions are nearly impossible made worse by the substantially lower spawn rates compared to 2019-2022 era.
The AH lag is so bad it is barely usable at peak hours and the whole experience ends up frustrating and disjointed as the servers cannot remotely keep up with the sheer number of players.
But Blizzard does not give a single crap about Classic, so it is what it is.
I was originally pro-megaserver but Blizzard categorically refuse to add a proper number of layers. At this rate I would rather play on a half-dead realm with only 1 active guild and dead AH than on a megaserver with the lag and terrible layer overpopulation
I do think simply adding more layers would solve several issues, though. There’d be less players per layer, keeping the world alive but not overcrowded like is it currently.
We saw exactly this at the start of MoP with the Firemaw layer bug, making it capped at 3 layers. The game was literally unplayable for a week, but when Blizzards hotfix was added at server reset, the game became playable again in an instant (it went from hardcapped 3 layers to like 12).
It wouldn’t fix the AH situation though, not sure what to do about that.
Small servers are not, but more servers is, playing without layers have NEVER been a problem, not once have I played on a dead server after 22yrs of playing, layers are the worst thing ever happening to the game, simply make more servers and bring back the feeling of community.
Not really. Most of my life I played on servers that would be considered dead by modern standards and it was fine. Surely finding groups was a problem but the current situation is so disastrous that I will take a transfer out of Thunderstrike to anywhere else without thinking
If you’ve avoided playing on a dead server it means you already played on a megaserver like Firemaw or Gehennas, and during Classic both those servers had layers for most of their lives. I started TBCC last time on Razergore, it was highly populated and reasonably well balanced, it was very healthy when TBCC launched… It was a ghost town by the time Black Temple launched, a handful of players left on the server.
This happened to so many servers throughout the lifecycle of Classic progression, only the megaservers survived, that’s why we ended up with 2 servers and layers, but we don’t have enough layers to keep up with the player count.
Blizzard has a technology to combine small servers already in retail. You just see the name of characters like Gigachad-Anotherrealm so its not a problem
calm your tities , once hype settles it will be ok. They capped layers to 10 for some reason right now, it should be like 13 but biggest issue is that 90% of ppl boosted chars to 58 so all those zones u mentioned are overcrowded, same like hellfire peninsula will be once tbc starts.
For every small server andy crying, theres 50 “dead realm” andys crying and history tells that small servers were bleeding population and had to be merged in end with a bigger server.
“Zones like Plaguelands or Blasted Lands or Desolace are supposed to be desolate, not brimming with adventurers.” - is this a very poor atempt to troll others?
I just levelled 1 to 60 and it is as bad in random Vanilla zones as it is in high level zones. It stayed almost the same even when I logged in at 5 am. When less people are playing, they simply merge layers and we get 3 grossly overpopulated layers instead of 10.
The problem is clearly not the prepatch surge, the problem is that too many people per layer are allowed in general
why do ppl make claims about 2 months 5 months and 9 months??? its totaly not important its bloody full right now ! and the only important thing there is is the present right ,
Blizz make it happen we gonna play Burning Crusade that is a good idea in itself great stuff now lets make it fun to do also for us all.
I call bs now , at 5am its not comparable to primetime. It gets reduced to 7 layers on Spineshatter down from 10 but difference is massive , its the cap on 10 layers that is the problem it gets overcrowded because theres need for like 13-15 layers , 5am is whole different story so i call bs on that.
To me it didn’t feel like there was any difference. If it’s actually lower at nighttime, unfortunately even 25% of “catastrophically overcrowded” is still overcrowded.
Surely the 10 layer cap might make it worse but the fact that it’s unplayable with 5 layers at 5 am indicates that at the end of the day the high player limit per layer is the root cause of the problem, and waiting for the hype to end will not solve anything. It will simply change from completely terrible to just bad
“start playing” you can play now , being annoyed about something doesn’t make it unplayable since thousands are playing it already.
The annoying part will be gone in 2months.
Ppl who overreact and call it unplayable are 20 iq cry babies. These same people would cry instantly if their “small server” died after 2months because it took longer than 5mins to form a dungeon grp. Then they move on to cry about that. Crying and over exaggerate is all you people do.
The current state of the server situation is another slap in the face to all the people supporting blizzard for 20 years. we are paying 13 euros per month an dont even get proper servers. always the same bs
I won’t leave my Lucerna now.