Yes, I also cancalled the sub, this is best answer
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Crazy that there is still no blue post here. They dont care
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Kinda cringe that people still cant create chars on Living Flame, max que today was just about 30 mins or less, during prime time.
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Tell me more; my whole friendlist is playing in Living Flame, and today I finaly had the time to install classic and play it; server is locked, now i’m clowning around in some server that i don’t want to fully commit.
What a classic SoD experience xd.
Any expectations on when will they be unlocked?
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probably after miantenance? it got unlocked few times after 3am
That’s what I was thinking about.
I’ll share this, if it helps to the vampire people like me to check the status without logging in actively:
Starter zones are completely dead now. You make the same mistake every single time blizzard, you listen to the queue whiners. They wanna play with the streamers but cant handle the queues.
its the Cartman business tactic
OK, according to that website data, server’s status is now “Full”, from “Locked”. There’s a small hope boysss
EDIT: Again locked. We’ll have to see when login servers are available again. || In fact, Lone Wolf and Living Flame are the only seasonal servers that remain online even after 6min from shutdown.
Its still “Locked” for me. But appear as the only “Active” servers. Maybe its a possibility that it opens
I did a fast look and Crusader Strike from America is now open. Was like that before? I thought they had locked it too
I am not 100% sure but, 99% sure that I checked Living flame before opening my last reply, and it was “Full”, so, open; however, after posting it, it was closed again, but still online.
Due to the fact that Lone Wolf and Living Flame are two super big servers, they are probably messing around with some setups while it’s not playable, keeping it online for few more time.
Once login servers are available (which it can be from now to 4am) we will discover if they tweaked something or if it’s the same; but i’m positive, not gonna lie.
EDIT2: I was hyped cuz of US Living flame server, my bad. Still locked on EU.
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After being all the day looking around for this I have faith man
EDIT: Maybe they are layering it or somethign to try and fit another bunch of players
EDIT 2: The servers are offline now, lets see what happens after coming online again
I really just wanna swap from living flame to Lone Wolf to play with my friends, i’ll happily leave my spot on the more popular server to the other 
Thanks
Im the exact opposite. I want to leave Lone Wolf to go Living Flame and play with my guild, you have my spot if you need it xD
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Thanks mate.
Blizzard sort us out
NO WAY, Only living flame remains locked
Ye looks like it
So, apparently by releasing the restriction in Lone Wolf, Blizzard expects people to reroll from Living Flame to there, or the new players to go there and fill the server.
This is a very bad move (but still better than not unlocking any server); because new players will go there, and alot of players who dislike Living Flame’s queues, will consider to reroll there. However, this solves nothing in the long run, because the players are the same or even more for the same ammount of servers.
The real problem here is that this is not as it used to be in the old 2004 days; servers aren’t just a “random” thing to pick, taking only in consideration the “PvP/PvE/RP” server type.
People like to play with their retail or even IRL or both worlds friends in the same server; and noone wants to play in a dead server; the way to solve this is (as has been sugested by alot of people in this post already), adding layers to the server, so it can handle more people playing on it without affecting to it too much.
Keeping Living Flame locked will make alot of people mad because they can’t play with their friends who are playing there.
I’m not very mad but a bit upset tho; because all of my wide friendlist is playing there, and because I did have a bussy week, I could not log in; and now I’m forced to journey in a new adventure alone with no friends at all, having to climb alone, dealing with semi-closed groups of people; which is gonna be a big nono for me, and will skip playing SoD.
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@Speedahx: I am addressing this to you, but this is intended as a wider audience reply.
Basically, even with the existence of layers, servers have an upper limit to what they can handle and my understanding of the situation is that it is more of a programming / data base access, etc. thing rather than a question of pure calculating power. In short, after a certain point, just throwing more power at the problem does not solve it. Auction house, mail, etc. begin to lag. Add even more strain and at some point the entire thing crashes.
Also, as to why realms may lock and unlock sort of “randomly”: It is very likely they are “soft locked” instead of being “hard locked”. The difference is that with the former character creation becomes available, when the strain on server is sufficiently low, while with the latter, even if the player count were to drop to zero (, which naturally does not happen on popular realms, except when Blizzard takes the realm entirely offline for maintenance), someone would have to manually unlock it before anyone with no previous characters on it could make one.
Because Classic and retail systems are different (due to popular demand, people did not want sharding in Classic, Blizzard created layering (and some of you likely remember it was not an entirely painless process)). Even so, due to reasons I briefly outlined above, they do share similarities. Though it is extremely rare, a “Low” population retail realm can (and will) go to “Locked” (without human intervention), if too many people are logged into it at the same time.
As for the faction specific locks: They are more likely to be “hard”, so if you can not play the faction you would like, it is probably a good idea to look at another realm as it is probable that the “lock” is not monitored constantly, but rather looked at for example once a day or once every few days (and it is also unlikely the more popular faction would suddenly become far less popular on it, relatively speaking).