Syrah wrote:Dear Community,
1. Feedback from PvE server test.
From the data we gathered during the session, ~2,500 distinct players logged in during the brief 40 minutes:
.................. When compared with the Nostalrius Begins pre-launch data, note that we "only" had 1,200 distinct players that played on our PTR before the official release.
Nostalrius will release a fresh vanilla PvE realm to fulfill the needs of these players.
....................This server population will be limited to 2,500 players with a queue; it will be the same limitation as official retail servers back in 2006.
2. Major technological breakthrough on the PvP server.
As you may have already noticed, the server lag has been drastically reduced this week! We now have more than 7.5k online players without lag.
So if you extrapolate the numbers, we could have 10,000+ people show up, but only 2,500 get to play. Going to be an awful lot of broken hearts in that QQueue.
Minerals wrote:2500 cap is really bad. i dont wanna wait hours to get in. i know that shit from retail server terrordar back in classic. on first day u had to wait 8 (!!) hours to login. it was insane...
agree - particularly on the first day
More people will be in the queue than will be able to participate in the launch.
ouch