Dev Interview - Launch Day Login Experience, New Classic Realms

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Developer Interview - Launch Day Login Experience
Forbes has an interview with Ion Hazzikostas about layering and launch day.

• Layering is the lesser of several evils when it comes to handling launch week populations.
• Many people have been waiting for this launch for years and are committed to the long haul, but there will also be tons of tourists checking it out at launch.
• The team is predicting a fairly steep drop off compared to the interest players are showing on launch day.
• Community is very important in Classic, so keeping the number of realms reasonable to ensure a healthy population is important.
• The team really really wants to avoid having to offer transfers or merging Classic realms later.
• Raising player caps on realms could be done but causes contention for finite spawn points and leads to bottlenecks.
• When you log in, you'll be assigned to a layer and will stay there for that gameplay session.
• The only way to change layers will be accepting a group invite from a player in another layer. Once you move to that new layer, that'll be your new layer for the gameplay session.
• The team expects to aggressively reduce the number of layers after the first few days.
• As the team goes into Phase 2, the goal is to have just one layer per realm.
• Layers will be removed with realm restarts or during maintenance.

US and Oceanic - New WoW Classic Realms are Now Open
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Due to very high demand, we’ve opened two new WoW Classic realms in this region:

Ashkandi - Normal - Eastern
Kirtonos - PvP - Eastern
Rattlegore - PvP - Pacific
Kurinnaxx – PvP - Pacific
Kromcrush – PvP – Eastern
Yojamba - PvP - AEST

We suggest that players choosing a realm consider one of these, as other realms currently marked as “Full” population will experience extended queues.

Thank you!

EU - New WoW Classic Realms Enabled
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
)
Due to extremely high demand, we’ve established the following new WoW Classic realms in this region:

Stonespine – PvP - EN-EU
Noggenfogger – PvP – EN-EU

We suggest that players choosing a realm consider one of these, as the other realms currently marked as “Full” population will experience queues.

Thank you!

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