Sure it is. The onus of population balance is not on the players shoulders. The servers should have soft caps on them so that this doesnt happen in the first place. Why can you continue to make characters on a full realm endlessly? Its dumb.
It's a complex issue. You can't just put a hard cap in place.
What happens if they put a lock on Fairbanks today, no new players. Your buddy you used to play with back in the day wants to hop on and run with you. Too late, server's locked, he's shit out of luck?
Then you will be incentivized to change realms so that you can play with him. The alternative is that players will endlessly stack on a full realm and cause massive launch issues. Players being forced to change realms to accommodate their friends is actually EXCELLENT for server balance - we WANT THIS!
The 200 person guild that jumps on the "full realm" makes the situation worse. When that same guild gets cut off at 100 members, they will be forced to go to a lower pop realm and contribute to server balance. This is what we want.
I like the idea of a soft cap. Perhaps there could be lenience within this cap to accommodate additional players on the underpopulated faction etc or perhaps these soft caps could be relinquished as we get closer to launch or shortly after launch. The issue with allowing people to lock into a full realm is that they will be committed. The likelihood of a guild moving AFTER they have locked into a realm and see the wait queue of 5 hours, is unrealistic. If they opt to move, the guild will likely unravel and fall apart; its simply too late. Coordinating 100-200 people to reserve on a realm is challenging enough, trying to get them to reroll on launch day due to queue times, simply will not happen. The issue needs to be addressed before launch with server caps or it simply will not happen.
Yeah the situation sucks, but that's where we are at now. Blizzard obviously has population targets on each server based on how they think server decay will play out. I just hope their planning ends up working out in the long run.
And I am SOOOO damn curious what those numbers are... What is a server? What are their anticipated retention rates??? Ughhh - so curious.
What, exactly, is a "soft cap" in this context? Something akin to Pippina's "write this text verbatim" idea?
Stalagg has reached High population status.
Stalagg has reached High population status.
I know a lot of players in Herod who have created a character in Stalagg (myself included). My guess is that in such cases Blizzard is counting the player against the population of both servers. Many players will wait until launch day to make a decision based on the size of the queues.
Stalagg has reached High population status.
I know a lot of players in Herod who have created a character in Stalagg (myself included). My guess is that in such cases Blizzard is counting the player against the population of both servers. Many players will wait until launch day to make a decision based on the size of the queues.
Yep, that'll be the most telling of how populated a server is. I'm fully aware that the realm pop is based on number of created characters.
Agreed. I've been reading a book on predictions and this is what's known as an out-of-sample fallacy; making a projection based on historical data that doesn't include all possible outcomes. I.E.: you get smashed at the bar and decide you'll drive home because you've been driving home from work for years and always made it without an accident.
The same reasoning led to the 2007 financial crisis.
Wrong. The deliberate creation of a housing bubble by the government was what led to the 2007 financial crisis, and everyone with a decent understanding of economics knew it would lead to a crash because the exact same thing happens every time the government creates a bubble.
I like you.
Da derzeit beide deutschsprachigen Realms voll sind und es somit bei der Veröffentlichung von WoW Classic zu langen Warteschlangen kommen kann, werden wir am Dienstag, dem 20. August um 20:00 Uhr MESZ zwei neue deutschsprachige Realms für Namensreservierungen bereitstellen:
Name Typ Sprache
Razorfen Normal Deutsch
Venoxis PvP Deutsch
Wir empfehlen Spielern von Everlook und Lucifron, über einen Wechsel auf einen dieser Realms nachzudenken. Dies trägt dazu bei, die Spielerpopulation vor der Veröffentlichung so gleichmäßig wie möglich zu verteilen und das beste Spielerlebnis für alle zu bieten.
Germany is getting two new realms today - Razorfen and Venoxis.
What do you guys think about this idea? I found it on the classic subreddit:
A little bit of out of the box thinking, but seems like it solves the problem of people bitching about already having their names set up.
The existing PvP realms all now have either a Full or High population tag. With the potential for extended queues on the Full realms, and 10,000+ queues on Shazzrah, we are opening another English PvP realm on Tuesday, August 20 at 8:00 p.m. CEST:
Firemaw – PvP – English
We urge players on PvP realms to consider moving to this realm. Doing so will help spread the player population as evenly as possible before launch and provide the best play experience for everyone.
Source
The existing PvP realms all now have either a Full or High population tag. With the potential for extended queues on the Full realms, and 10,000+ queues on Herod, we are opening two new PvP realms on Monday, August 19 at 6:00 p.m. PDT:
Blaumeux – PvP – Pacific Time Zone
Skeram – PvP – Eastern Time Zone
We urge players on PvP realms to consider moving to one of these realms. Doing so will help spread the player population as evenly as possible before launch and provide the best play experience for everyone.
The existing PvP realms all now have either a Full or High population tag. With the potential for extended queues on the Full realms, and 10,000+ queues on Herod, we are opening two new PvP realms on Monday, August 19 at 6:00 p.m. PDT:
Blaumeux – PvP – Pacific Time Zone
Skeram – PvP – Eastern Time Zone
We urge players on PvP realms to consider moving to one of these realms. Doing so will help spread the player population as evenly as possible before launch and provide the best play experience for everyone.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/new-realms-coming-for-wow-classic/259109
Keep the posts about new realms in this thread please.
Firemaw, from BWL. Not from Molten Core this time
Firemaw, from BWL. Not from Molten Core this time
Yeah, looks like they are running out of names! :biggrin:
Firemaw, from BWL. Not from Molten Core this time
Yeah, looks like they are running out of names! :biggrin:
Magmadar or Lucifron would be cool in my opinion. However they might already exist on retail?
'PVP overflow containment server 4' just has a nice ring to it.
Going to tough it out on Stalagg and see how things go. This is pretty intense with all of the Realms getting full so quickly. It's tough not to get excited!
Yeah, I'm going to stay on Herod but I hope that this encourages others to consider rolling on a new realm!
Gonna stick with Stalagg and see how it goes. Guess everyone was interested in classic after all, eh Blizzard? :lol:
Im off whitemane and going on blaumaleux