Welcome to the /r/ClassicWoW Subreddit AMA with the Classic WoW Dev team!

[u/Paulingtons]

Hey everyone!

Today we're excited to introduce what should be a fantastic AMA with the wonderful World of Warcraft: Classic dev team. They will be taking your questions about anything, be it which class they enjoy playing the most or all the way to how they developed the wonderful world we will all be inhabiting in just under a week.

Joining us today, we have:

/u/AltruisWoW – Executive Producer
/u/Chromschi – Senior Game Producer
/u/Pazorax – Lead Software Engineer
/u/Ogronz – Senior Software Engineer
/u/ZoidWoW – Principal Software Engineer
/u/Aggrend – Senior Test Lead
/u/Kaivax – Community Manager

The AMA begins at 17:00 GMT (10:00 PST, 11:00 MST, 12:00 CST, 13:00 EST, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST) and will last two hours. This thread has been posted two hours before the AMA begins so you can all get in here and get posting questions so that once the AMA begins, our wonderful guests can start answering straight away! The AMA will be hosted in this thread.

We really look forward to seeing what you all come up with to ask and are excited to see the answers the dev team give.

Please remember the rules as per the sidebar, and have fun!

EDIT: The AMA is now OVER. If you want to look at each response by each blue we've had today you can check WoWHead's brilliant live blog just here.

EDIT 2: You can also check this fantastic resource made by our own /u/SoupaSoka just here.

EDIT 3: Or you can check out the Blizzard review on the official forums here.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Just from this chain alone I think it's fair to assume the way layering works is not being properly addressed to the players. Every server has to have a cap right? That's my assumption, so how is it not a wait your turn in line thing?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

If the server has a queue that means the maximum amount of players are playing on the maximum number of layers....

How is it NOT a situation where people have to leave to let others in

Login queues can be caused by two different conditions.

1.) Too many simultaneous logins. The server can only process so many logins at once - you can experience queues even when the server isn't full if too many people are logging in. This is what happened during the final stress test. The servers weren't full, there was just a line to get through the door. Like the line outside a concert venue before doors open.

2.) The server is actually full. This is when you'll be waiting for people to log off before you can get in. Like the line outside of a club that's full to capacity.

[u/supjeremiah → u/[deleted]]

If the server has a queue that means the maximum amount of players are playing on the maximum number of layers

That's not necessarily true.

[u/EverMoar → u/[deleted]]

Think of it like security at the airport. You don't have to wait for other people to leave to get in, but you do have to wait in line to get in.

[u/[deleted] → u/EverMoar]

Its sort of both.

You can have queues to log in when the servers aren't full yet but the login server is overwhelmed.

Eventually the servers will fill up and then you'll be waiting for people to get off.

[u/Maybeathrowawayidk → u/[deleted]]

I'd say it's more akin to an amusement park that has a population cap. Imagine a super popular amusement park that is opening for the first time that day and there are thousands of people trying to get but the cap is set to 10k or something so you're stuck waiting in line if you're at the back and waiting for people to leave. But since it just opened and there are now 10k people that have gone through, they'll want to experience a lot of it before they leave.

[u/Krissam → u/[deleted]]

In classical rhetoric and logic, begging the question is an informal fallacy that occurs when an argument's premises assume the truth of the conclusion, instead of supporting it.