While I definitely did not like “layering instead of more servers” approach, I think it kind of makes sense that we do not have more realms. It is easier to open new realms later compared to having bunch of inactive realms that cannot be simply merged (think about characters with the same name). They could be connected, which is not a solution that is as elegant.
From their point of view, it makes sense because they probably cannot make estimations for the long run. Layering solves both the risk of inactive realms and the risk of overcrowdedness. Once the playerbase becomes relatively stable, they can change their approach.
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Blizzard, i beg you on my fragile knees, please consider more PVP realms. There have been a lot of clearly unofficial polls going around, that shows the wast majority of EU players are going to roll on a PVP server, i have not seen one under 70%.
I get that you have a lot of metrics and statistics the community don’t know about, but i really hope that Blizzard is aware of the enormous hype around it. It have been almost no advertising other than the Twitch beta, which is fine, i wont tell you how to do marketing. But when i see the love that random people i haven’t talked with in years have for the game, bringing us together, i recruit some friends, and theire friends and suddenly we are a bunch of people, i am afraid the metrics you have, do not show the whole picture.
Communities have been build just around the hype, look around see how many guilds who have made a discord server, or looking for recruits. It will be a nightmare to change server when we first are committed. I see the logic behind opening more servers if needed, but only one or two more is a HUGE difference which would mean a lot to your community.
I do believe in you Blizzard, and the incredible Classic team, i just feel like you are missing some information, but then again maybe i am missing something.
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Is it possible you could also post the location of the servers? So that we know which one to chose for best MS/Latency?
For example, where are the English servers located specifically? Or at least which part of Europe, such as South/East/West/North?
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please more server this is not gonna work!
See you guys in Classic!!!
You’re 38493 in the queue, 288 hours to go.
Oh, well!
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ZERO Norwegian realms?? What the hell!
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Only 2 English Realms? Is this a joke.
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Please Blizz, provide info on where in EU the different realms will be hosted.
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Does it matter?
Most likely in Paris, where they have the other servers, AFAIR
Omg only 2 English pvp servers ?!? Its a joke right ?
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C’mon Blizz don’t mess it up now we need at least another 2 English PvP realms its no surprise most will roll PvP, Please release more before name reservation otherwise that particular “feature” will be worthless
Even non native english speaking nations mostly want to roll on english speaking realms, I see no reason for 2 PvE realms convert 1 to PvP at least, as this way it costs you nothing you are a business after all
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The really lame part of layering, especially if there’s lots of them due to server population is, one day you meet Steve. Steve’s a nice bloke and you do a few quests and dungeons have a bit of a chat. Next day you log on and Steve is on a different layer and you never meet him again.
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Overall theres not many realms. Ithink their under estimateing how many people will play. they’ll probly be forced to add new realms at a later date.
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89 servers back in 2004, 7 servers 2019, seems about right, jk, give us more servers
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We know how this ends up: France 0 server, Germany 0 servers and Russia and the US get 3 each extra
Nah not russia, activision is not owned by Trump
Mail Boy with learning difficulties gave them answers for the names from blizzard HQ bottom level office.
Server names are not good, but whatever, number of servs are more concerning.
Three solutions :
- We have 2000 layers per server
- Blizzard servers can now handle ~100K people on one server with a decent number of layers
- We overestimate Classic hype
At first I did not care about layering. Now I do.
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Lets not forget 2 PvP servers + Layers is gonna make getting Rank 14 a Nightmare, You are gonna need to tape your eye sockets in and buy a couple of extra chairs for that sweat. Good Luck.
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