I just joined on retail and i see it has more than the double the servers of classic. And many are full right now, which isn’t a prime time. So i want to ask, retail servers capacity are smaller? And is there the layering thing?
PVP is chosen when you play. there is the possibility to switch off\on in the capital (SW or OGR). So you can join every server.
Silvermoon is the main server for ally and draenor for horde, and argent dawn for RP.
When you say main server for ally and horde? The ratio is bigger you mean? So all servers are PVP? On Wow Classic there are PVP/Normal/RP/RPPVP servers. That’s why i am confused.
In theory all servers are PVP. But you need to toggle on PVP.
For faction ratio check this (i cant post url so you need to unite spaces)
https:// realmpop. com/eu.html
In retail WOW they got rid of PVP servers and created something called warmode where you are on regular servers but use shards/instances to see others in warmode.
Why some servers have the exact same population. It goes by pairs as i see.
In reality, except maybe 3-4 realms, all Retail realms are Low pop.
However, when interconnected, they all become High pop.
As it is right now, Classic have at least double the player numbers, compared to Retail.
A single High Classic realm = 4-5 Retail realms.
A single Full Classic realm = 8-10 Retail realms.
Since Retail have twice the number of realms, but those realms are actually 5 times smaller than a Classic realm, Classic is 2.5 times bigger than Retail.
Or, to put it in percentages, 30-35% of WoW players are playing Retail, and 65-70% of WoW players are playing Classic.
Simple as that,
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proof it. Most who play classic play BFA to.
“In reality, i like Classic more therefore retail is dead”. Okay buddy.
I think since all realms are connected through sharding system population is combination of several realms. Or blizzard is just lying / hiding information.
They are doing that ever since they stopped publishing sub numbers.
Population is shown differently between Retail and Classic.
For Retail, it is determined by average activity.
For Classic, it is determined by real-time activity.
The reason why the latter was done is because many players were confused when certain Classic servers with “medium” populations were suddenly getting queues when Classic launched. So Blizzard tweaked the system to show the population in real time. Queues aren’t really common in Retail due to sharding and cross-realming, which spreads populations across servers.
So in reality, if you enter a “Full” realm at an off-peak time in Retail, it usually just means that realm has very high average activity, but it might be lower than average at the off-peak time.
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