Well, I’m looking forward to the brutal queue times… NOT
Blizzard, we need more PvP servers. With only two servers there will be chaos.
EU need atleast 2 or 3 more PvP realms or this will not be fun. Casual players will have nowhere to go.
Everything will be too crowded and after layering, it will be chaotic everywhere and que times will be over 10k when there are over 100k created characters ln each server.
Even if the two pvp servers have 10 layers of 3k ppl, ie 30k ppl per server, that’s only 60k ppl that can play at the same time on those two servers.
If you don’t think there’s gonna be more then 60k ppl that want to play on an english pvp server, I don’t know what to tell you.
Also, with that many layers, there’s no way that the population on these two servers drop by 90% to just 3k each by phase two in order for them to remove layering in time.
They need more servers, period.
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Hopefully Blizzard is reading all the replies and taking notes.
I would imagine at least 4 PVP (maybe even more) servers extra would be needed to support the amount of players that will at least try classic wow.
As for the fact that they are English servers i would imagine that nowadays everyone learns English in school as a 2nd or 3rd language, so i don´t really get the problem… English is not my main language either, but i did learn it in while doing daily things (watching cartoons, playing games etc.) and in school over 20 years ago. Now with the internet widely available i would image the people proficient in English should have skyrocketed?
If you see people on English servers spamming chat in another language right click and report or ignore them. If the Spanish community announces their server of choice and they are really that bad then ignore the server they decided to go on or just add people speaking Spanish to your /ignore list until none remain 
TBH i wouldn´t know as i never had problem with Spanish speaking people. Arathor had a Hungarian community that had the same attitude when it came to chat (trade, party etc) but even that simmered down over time as they just got reported and ignored by most people. (there are about 70 people on my ignore list from that era)
As for the realm names. Who cares! Be glad classic is happening and you get a chance to actually (hopefully) play it.
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Very well written and I totally agree. Blizzard did not build their world for such a large number of inhabitants. You only have to look at real life to understand the issues that will arise due to over population, lack of resources etc.
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Problem with layering is it will break the community. (end game not early game)
I was pro layering over sharding that it would clear out not long after people have moved on.
If you plan of having 2 PvP servers, Its not enough, which I can clearly tell just by streamers/forum posts, reddit etc, It is the bigger flavor wanted this time around.
So lets say after launch the casuals all go as a group to 60, Some will get 60 before others, some will rush, some have game plans etc…by the time everyone or 60 % even is 60, ALL 60 content is then layered.
So you fix the early content, but break the later content.
During the Beta, I logged out for 10 mins, after returning, I saw completely new people in Elwynn. -I even /who to check- Either all logged off as I did, or I was in a different layer.
Stormwind , Ironforge, lvl 55-60 zones will always -always- be layered. STV? Layered.
So if I find an Enchanter who does the Enchants I want, add them to friends, DO i then have to switch layers to use their services end game? Cause they did? Will I always be in my own guilds layer?
If by phase 2 Layering is gonna be out, then get used to the idea of 60 content being layered asf especially the high end stuff for a while.
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We really need more servers. From what I’ve read Golemagg is already claimed by spanish and italian players as their server. Why not just make 4 or 5 more en-pvp servers? I couldn’t care less about what you name them, just give us more servers
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Why not just do it? Probably money. Servers cost money…
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Well let’s hope this Stress Test shows a more realistic population to Blizzard.
I am sure more will sub before release.
After the “name reservation” adding additional servers is really so unfair for the people who subbed only for name reservation.
Edit: Also normal server names are horrible in phonetic sense.
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Only 2 pvp realms… You know the spanish are also joining the ENG pvp realms with 100k ppl??
Get atleast 2-3 more pvp ENG realms please, and now so we can plan!
Btw who cares about something as silly as realm names?? comon nerds… We got a bigger problem than that…
TBH, I think the amount of servers are ok. As soon as the tourists are gone the population is gonna be healthy.
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2 pvp servers will not be enough, not even after the “tourists” leave and especially not at launch.
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It will be fun. Surely more fun than the boring retail that you play solo and nothing is challenging during leveling. Is way better to try to find mobs to kill. After 15+ years of many mmos I concluded that this is fun, to NOT be able to do something
How can you be so sure?
If you didn’t read my earlier post, I’ll give you a summary.
They want to keep the 3k server cap, but use layering to have multiple “caps” on one server. The problem is that with how many people that are gonna play, they need 10-20+ layers on both servers to be able to handle the playerbase.
And there’s no way that the playerbase will reduce by 90% by the time phase 2 rolls around, in order for both the servers to only have 3k server cap and no layering.
There is no way in hell that 90% of the people who play classic are tourists that will quit within a month.
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3k per region. In 1 week there will be less than 1k per region everyone will go to a different direction. 3k is not the cap of the server… or is it?
I’m sorry, I don’t really understand what you mean. 3k was the original server cap for vanilla wow. That’s what Blizz wants to keep. But they are using layering to create digital versions of 3k cap, on the same server. So in theory, they can have 30k ppl in 10 different layers on the same server, instead of just 3k.
This is all we want blizz, c`mon
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