One Mega Server Per Type Coming in WoW Classic Fresh

Posted 2024/11/14 at 8:00 AM by Ease

they will launch Classic Fresh with only three servers per region

Realm Sizes and Rulesets

Nowadays, an individual WoW Classic realm can hold many more players at a single time than ever before. For our new fresh Anniversary realms, we’re limiting the total number of realms to choose from at launch to only 1 of each ruleset (Normal (PvE), PvP, and Hardcore). This will give both new and returning players the confidence in selecting a realm with a ruleset of their choosing, knowing that it will be healthy and sustainable. We may choose to open additional realms for a given ruleset, if needed to address player demand, but it’s our intention to limit the total number of realms to as few realms as possible.

When we first launch on November 21 at 2:00 p.m. PST, we expect some queuing, as we will gradually increase realm capacity caps in real time to fit the number of players logging in. We ask for your patience and understanding if you encounter a queue right after launch time.

Comment by novadudeimagine the fights over mobs in the starting areas lolComment by acyliaworst idea ever... the start zone will be a purgeComment by MrmerrMega servers are back? They never left.Comment by GrissuI was hyped at first with this one mega server, but then.. For sure there will be stupid phasing/layering. I prefer smaller servers rather than phasing then.Comment by Veovisno region news?
oceanic servers?Comment by Hulkbusterno region news?
oceanic servers?Comment by NooblydoneWhat about merging servers into big ones in Cataclysm Classic? :DComment by Devastator4kno region news?
oceanic servers?Comment by nick00000great, so its going to be unplayable O.oComment by oldbambamcommunity: "clAssiC FEEls deaD bLIzzarD mErGe aND mAkE onE mega seRVEr"

wow team: "sure thing! we've been working hard on the network, backend and database tech and we've cracked it, one server will hold every single person per type!"

community: "HoW COuld TheY Do thIS TO us"Comment by ExtremelyCrustyIf they don't have layering, this will be pretty bad.Comment by Vivienhow do you think. where will be more players? PVP and PVE?Comment by TokenScramblesI can almost guarantee there will be layering of some sort for a period of time. Starting zones and probably about the first 20 levels will be virtually unplayable without it. Coupled with only 3 weeks before MC opens, I can't imagine they would screw everyone over like that. Then again, it's Blizzard lol.Comment by ShenkOh... OH noComment by MyratyCThis time I'm not gonna lose my nickname!
This time I'm not gonna miss out on classic like I did on '19!
HYPE!Comment by SinRcommunity: "clAssiC FEEls deaD bLIzzarD mErGe aND mAkE onE mega seRVEr"

wow team: "sure thing! we've been working hard on the network, backend and database tech and we've cracked it, one server will hold every single person per type!"

community: "HoW COuld TheY Do thIS TO us"Comment by tombirchOceanic or we riotComment by JenovasChild666From a classic hardcore player, enthusiast, and I imagine, the perfect target market for your classic era (mid thirties, nostalgic, not much time for playing, but wants to play, likely the only game they play) this is such a bad decision for a fresh hardcore server.

Yes, I fully understand fresh era and pvp. Roll those back, and let players old and new enjoy the world we had back in 2004. Let them enjoy the phases, the excitement of an incoming new expansion, then the grind of another 10 levels to end game. That Blizzard, is a great idea.

But, and this is a massive but. Bigger than Kylie Jenners butt! You're making fresh hardcore servers for what reason? They won't progress to TBC, so in reality, they'll be fresh until the first group have got to end game and progressed the exact same content we are all currently doing on a daily basis. Remember, in hardcore, if you die you GO AGANE. So yes, we reprogress MC, we reprogress ONY etc etc. It literally will never get stale. So why blizzard, why are you going to cripple the small communities that have been built since you initially launched hardcore? (possibly your single greatest game mode I may say!)

Please understand, the player base is entirely different to those communities on any other game mode. They've been founded, built, and thrived together with thousands of hours put in to our own progressions, and our own economy thrives exceedingly well.

EU Nekrosh, has two levelling guilds Classic Hardcore and Victory & Death. This community helps every individual, new player, old player, whatever... It's the journey to 60. Then, come level 60, should the player wish to partake in raids, progresses to one of the two main raiding guilds Victory or Infamous. All four guilds, along with other smaller guilds (Need leather, self found guild or Pate en Croute - French guild) we ALL are a team. Heck, we even form alliances with the opposing faction to see us through some challenges that would normally see us back in Brill.

Anyway, I stress..... This community, WILL be hurt with these fresh servers. And we're smaller than Stitches and the US servers.

You're making a big mistake Blizz, and you'll more than likely lose a tonne of subs if the existing servers diminish, because WE ARE NOT MOVING! But we do not wish to be divided by you making pointless fresh servers so you can erase our thousands of hours combined.

Please, retract the hardcore fresh, keep existing. Help us GROW, NOT decline! I guarantee you, every single person currently playing hardcore is more loyal than those that will "try" hardcore just because you stick a fresh label on it. Remember, it won't be fresh for long... And if you lose your current loyal player base on top of those that come and go, then you know what you need to do.

Séphiternal - Nek'Rosh EUComment by Archronoshow do you think. where will be more players? PVP and PVE?Comment by ThorinixFrom a classic hardcore player, enthusiast, and I imagine, the perfect target market for your classic era (mid thirties, nostalgic, not much time for playing, but wants to play, likely the only game they play) this is such a bad decision for a fresh hardcore server.

Yes, I fully understand fresh era and pvp. Roll those back, and let players old and new enjoy the world we had back in 2004. Let them enjoy the phases, the excitement of an incoming new expansion, then the grind of another 10 levels to end game. That Blizzard, is a great idea.

But, and this is a massive but. Bigger than Kylie Jenners butt! You're making fresh hardcore servers for what reason? They won't progress to TBC, so in reality, they'll be fresh until the first group have got to end game and progressed the exact same content we are all currently doing on a daily basis. Remember, in hardcore, if you die you GO AGANE. So yes, we reprogress MC, we reprogress ONY etc etc. It literally will never get stale. So why blizzard, why are you going to cripple the small communities that have been built since you initially launched hardcore? (possibly your single greatest game mode I may say!)

Please understand, the player base is entirely different to those communities on any other game mode. They've been founded, built, and thrived together with thousands of hours put in to our own progressions, and our own economy thrives exceedingly well.

EU Nekrosh, has two levelling guilds Classic Hardcore and Victory & Death. This community helps every individual, new player, old player, whatever... It's the journey to 60. Then, come level 60, should the player wish to partake in raids, progresses to one of the two main raiding guilds Victory or Infamous. All four guilds, along with other smaller guilds (Need leather, self found guild or Pate en Croute - French guild) we ALL are a team. Heck, we even form alliances with the opposing faction to see us through some challenges that would normally see us back in Brill.

Anyway, I stress..... This community, WILL be hurt with these fresh servers. And we're smaller than Stitches and the US servers.

You're making a big mistake Blizz, and you'll more than likely lose a tonne of subs if the existing servers diminish, because WE ARE NOT MOVING! But we do not wish to be divided by you making pointless fresh servers so you can erase our thousands of hours combined.

Please, retract the hardcore fresh, keep existing. Help us GROW, NOT decline! I guarantee you, every single person currently playing hardcore is more loyal than those that will "try" hardcore just because you stick a fresh label on it. Remember, it won't be fresh for long... And if you lose your current loyal player base on top of those that come and go, then you know what you need to do.

Séphiternal - Nek'Rosh EU