The demand for space on World of Warcraft Classic servers, which launched tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern Time, has been overwhelming.To get
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Shadowlands WoW Gold, you can visit lootwowgold news official website.Fans of the nearly 15-year-old game have been creating characters like mad since last week, reserving their names and a shot at
recapturing the nostalgia of playing the game as it was close to its
launch. There is no up-front cost to Classic; if you have an active
World of Warcraft subscription, you own it. So the barrier to those
wanting to take a gander at the game, whether they stay or not, is very
low.As a result, nearly every server at launch was reading Full before the game even began, and Blizzard's been posting increasingly plaintive
notes asking people to move off ultra-full servers where streamers or
popular communities have taken up residence to newer, lower-population
servers.Realistically, WoW game director Ion Hazzikostas told Forbes, the population is going to drop dramatically after the tourists leave and
the committed WoW Classic players settle in for the long haul. To deal
with that disparity, the company is using "layering," which creates
multiple copies of the entire game world of Azeroth to hold people in
the short term.I caught up with Hazzikostas for an extended interview about those realm login queues, the reasons for layering, and how it works. This is
the first part of that interview, talking specifically about why you're
probably waiting in a login queue right about now. (Welcome! Can we get
you a cup of coffee and a few good stories to read while you wait?)
To be clear, we don't view layering as an improvement to the Classic
experience. We're not saying that man, we wish we had layering back in
2006, it would have made it so much better, but now we have it, so let's
do this. Layering is the lesser of several evils by a large margin.
We are trying to manage long term healthy populations on these servers
around a unique sort of game launch. There's no box that you have to buy
on a shelf in a retail store for an outlay of dollars. We are opening
this world up to millions of people, many of whom are just going to want
to check it out as a matter of curiosity.There are others who've been waiting for this clearly for years and they are in, as in as can be, but they're all going to be there
contending for the same server space on day one.
