Hi!
Thanks for your kind answer, in 2019 (no, not 2005)
LMFAO! Blizzard own whole data centres, they don’t need to rent server farms from anyone.
Realm Queues & Maximum capacity increased:
With a hotfix to WoW Classic a few moments ago, we’ve changed how the realm population labels work in order to display realm populations in a more meaningful way.
How it worked before this hotfix
As we explained here , the system previously calculated the population labels by comparing all realms to the most-populated realm. This could result in a very crowded realm (with a lengthy queue) showing up as “Medium”, since it was being compared to the realm that had the highest population and a pote…
The below explains that “Full” reflects server queues over population when there’s an actual long queue going on.
With hotfixes that we are currently deploying to all WoW Classic realms, we are substantially increasing the number of players that can be simultaneously logged in and playing. We expect this to result in smaller queues for realms that have large queues, and some realms should no longer have queues at all.
We will closely monitor performance and stability throughout this process.
Thank you very much.
They’ve also commented here that they’re not increasing the maximum population possible on any given realm as that would increase an unsustainable problem down the line:https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/overcrowded-realm-update/70777/1
