Is WoW overpopulation becoming an issue?
Last night, I tried logging into 5 different Realms, before finally giving up and creating a new character in a new Realm. I, for one, would like to see Blizzard do something about this. Either make a population cap or let us migrate characters from other Realms or spider all the Realms together. Something. Sometimes I just want to log in and play for a little bit, and the queue destroys that. Do I really need to create a different character for every Realm and spend hours and hours trying to grow them all? What do you think?
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(Page 1)2. I agree, there does seem to be an overpopulation issue going on in WoW all of a sudden. I tried to log in to Bloodhoof last night and I was presented with a queue! That was the first time I had seen that since the beta.
Posted at 8:04AM on Dec 6th 2005 by Josh Owens 0 stars
3. I've been running into a queue every night recently on Arthas. On the weekends it's worse but you'll find the queue on Tuesdays, Thursdays, pretty much any day.
4. From what I've heard - the Trials may be adding to server overpopulation - but when they are queuing to join an already full server they get bumped by regular paying subscribers. Just have to work out a system where they "boot" trial users who are already in my realm!!
Posted at 11:42AM on Dec 6th 2005 by Dr.Funbags 0 stars
5. I'd seen people post in the forums about "queues of 800", but had been lucky enough to not really understand what they meant. I'd never seen a "realm is full" message before... ... until last Saturday, that is! Not sure if it is a sign of things to come, or a bit of a glitch, but my previously "medium" pop realm of Suramr gave me a queue over the weekend - only 40 people, so only took a minute or so, but it is a worry!
Posted at 8:22PM on Dec 6th 2005 by Ed 0 stars
6. Same here - Burning Legion is now getting queues :( Blizzard should prevent or throttle new accounts on "Full" servers IMO.
Posted at 3:37PM on Dec 7th 2005 by Frimoth 0 stars
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1. There is a free trial available now via download. I wonder if that is causing some of the overpopulation pressure? I personally have not had any issues with queues on Frostwolf since they let players transfer to Frostmane.
Posted at 12:25PM on Dec 5th 2005 by Mark Asher 0 stars