New World Of Warcraft Classic Servers Opened In Response To Overpopulation And Possible 10K Queues

With just a week to go before World of Warcraft officially goes live, Blizzard Entertainment has voiced their concerns about the overpopulation of servers, specifically the Herod PvP server. “Based on name reservations so far, the Herod realm is looking to be massively overpopulated,” says Blizzard. “If all existing players on this server remain there, login queues in excess of 10,000 players are a certainty, and possibly much higher than that.”

In response, Blizzard has opened up two more PvP servers for players in the East Coast, called Stalagg and Skeram, and another PvP server in the West Coast called Blaumeux. The studio is urging players who pre-registered on the Herod server to move to one of the new servers to keep the log-in queues manageable and prevent potential problems caused by overcrowding.

“While we are able to fit several times more players on a single realm in 2019 than was the case in 2006, we are not going to raise that cap any further, even though we have the technical capacity to do so,” explains the studio. “Raising realm caps would simply forestall the problem, letting more players in at launch but creating an unsustainable situation down the line, with severe queues when we turn off layering permanently before Phase 2 of our content unlock plan.”

Blizzard also reminds players that the Low, Medium, and High population estimates are already based on the increased capacity servers which means that a Medium population realm will already have more players in it than an overpopulated one back in 2006.

Head over to the World of Warcraft Classic official forums for more info.