To bizzard / dev team can we have an update on servers meaning your motives.
I would personally love to play classic again but with to many servers and everyone so distant its not really enjoyable perhaps we can make one pvp, pve, rp server so servers could fullfill population and we can make raiding guilds and pvp premades again.
Yeah but they’re all low population if we had one server for each would be much better for population on each server when you see low server population youre less likely not to play than seeing a medium to high population.
I have some friends that would like to enter naxx as they haven’t done it before in vanilla or classic but right now it’s hard to get guilds together and the population. I think it would make more sense to have fewer realms than so many realms that are empty plus take’s up resources.
When the realms are connected - as they are now - it’ll make no diffrence to the number of players on the realm(s) if they merged the realms or moved all players to one realm only and deleted the other ones. The same number of players would now just be in one realm instead of in one cluster. You won’t get any more, sorry.
I think it’s better when the SOM starts that they make less servers than too many to prevent future merging. It sucks when you spend hours to get a good character name and lose it on the merge if you are not quick enough.
At least on retail I lost my favorite character on a merge when I was on a break.
In Era this only became a problem when TBCC went live. Until then the PvE realms were more or less overpopulated. (Don’t know about the PvP servers tbh).
If they make less than 3 PvE realms it’ll be unplayable without layers, which I personally think should NOT be a thing in Classic at all.
But if you say that fewer PvP realms would be fine, I’m ready to back you up there.
I don’t know what would be the correct number of PVE and PVP servers, but I think they slightly overdid it with the Classic. I know the queues were horrible on some servers, but that was partly because they added servers in cycles and people had already chosen their server when there was like 3 possible english PVP server options only (in EU). That ended with 3 gigantic servers and some that were really low populated. I hope they have learned from past mistakes and when the time comes for SOM they add enough servers to begin with and do not add them “in weekly basis”.