Blizzard locks busy WoW Classic realms, begs players to move servers

pcgamesn.com:

Blizzard has disabled character creation and incoming transfers for busy WoW Classic realms in an attempt to mitigate lengthy WoW Wrath of the Lich King Classic queues, and says that the servers for these US and EU mega-realms “will remain locked indefinitely.” In addition, players lining up for what is often considered one of the best MMORPG expansions are being encouraged to take free character transfers away from the over-populated servers to quieter realms, with Blizzard emphasising that “we need more folks to move.”

“We’ll start with the easiest and most clear-cut statement to make,” WoW Classic game producer Aggrend explains in a lengthy post on the Blizzard forums, “The mega-realms in US and EU that are queueing are completely full.” They continue, stating that “there is no additional capacity we can add to these realms to allow more players on, or to reduce queues.” In addition, Aggrend says that layers – used to create additional instances of a busy zone to mitigate overpopulation – don’t resolve the core issue of realm capacity, which is dictated by how many connections the server can handle at once.

Aggrend states that Blizzard “cannot increase capacity any more without inviting additional and likely cascading failures to the service. At present, the best and only way to resolve this issue for the impacted realms is for people to leave the realm via free transfers.” They emphasise that, if anything, the problem will only get worse when the WoW Wrath of the Lich King Classic release date arrives on September 26.

As such, both new character creation and incoming paid transfers to US and EU mega-realms have been disabled indefinitely. Aggrend explains that “the situation on these realms is completely untenable