We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. World of Warcraft Classic is set to launch later this month, but depending on the MMO realm you select to play in, the wait time to login could be ridiculous. As Eurogamer reports, in the run up to launch Blizzard is allowing players to reserve a character name and choose a preferred realm to play in. The problem is, one realm in particular is proving to be extremely popular. It's called Herod and there's so many players selecting it Blizzard believes the login queue will be "in excess of 10,000 players." A login queue simply means waiting to be allowed to login to the server to play. If there's a handful of players waiting ahead of you, then there's time to go make a coffee. However, 10,000+ players in the queue and you might as well go play something else and try again another day. Blizzard won't solve the problem by increasing the number of players each server can handle. They could, but rather than solving it would just delay the same problem. Instead, Blizzard is calling upon players to choose another realm to play in. A plea was posted on Battle.net by community manager Kaivax requesting this: Based on name reservations so far, the Herod realm is looking to be massively overpopulated. If all existing players on this server remain there, login queues in excess of 10,000 players are a certainty, and possibly much higher than that. We recently opened up the Stalagg realm, and we urge players on Herod to consider moving there. There are a lot of players currently on Herod and we want Stalagg to fill up before we open any new PvP realms. This is so that player population is spread as evenly as possible before launch, in order to provide the best play experience. Kaivax also points out that the realm population estimates of "Low, Medium, High" are set at 2019 levels rather than 2006 levels, meaning many more players per server today can and will be handled. Blizzard intends to run WoW Classic for years, so it's very keen to establish strong communities per realm, but is also "cautiously opening new servers to meet demand." If you've already reserved a character name and chosen Herod as your realm, go and pick somewhere else. If you don't, it's likely playing WoW Classic on launch day will prove impossible. Anyone yet to sign up should pick whichever realm Blizzard is recommending at the time.
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We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. World of Warcraft Classic is set to launch later this month, but depending on the MMO realm you select to play in, the wait time to login could be ridiculous. As Eurogamer reports, in the run up to launch Blizzard is allowing players to reserve a character name and choose a preferred realm to play in. The problem is, one realm in particular is proving to be extremely popular. It's called Herod and there's so many players selecting it Blizzard believes the login queue will be "in excess of 10,000 players." A login queue simply means waiting to be allowed to login to the server to play. If there's a handful of players waiting ahead of you, then there's time to go make a coffee. However, 10,000+ players in the queue and you might as well go play something else and try again another day. Blizzard won't solve the problem by increasing the number of players each server can handle. They could, but rather than solving it would just delay the same problem. Instead, Blizzard is calling upon players to choose another realm to play in. A plea was posted on Battle.net by community manager Kaivax requesting this: Based on name reservations so far, the Herod realm is looking to be massively overpopulated. If all existing players on this server remain there, login queues in excess of 10,000 players are a certainty, and possibly much higher than that. We recently opened up the Stalagg realm, and we urge players on Herod to consider moving there. There are a lot of players currently on Herod and we want Stalagg to fill up before we open any new PvP realms. This is so that player population is spread as evenly as possible before launch, in order to provide the best play experience. Kaivax also points out that the realm population estimates of "Low, Medium, High" are set at 2019 levels rather than 2006 levels, meaning many more players per server today can and will be handled. Blizzard intends to run WoW Classic for years, so it's very keen to establish strong communities per realm, but is also "cautiously opening new servers to meet demand." If you've already reserved a character name and chosen Herod as your realm, go and pick somewhere else. If you don't, it's likely playing WoW Classic on launch day will prove impossible. Anyone yet to sign up should pick whichever realm Blizzard is recommending at the time.