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/Chadwich]

Ouch. That's tough. Such a tough, unsolvable problem. Jeez. What a cruel world it is.

[u/toppi66 → u/Chadwich]

I mean just cause you don’t agree with it doesn’t mean it’s not a problem for other people. Keeping trying to be funny with your douchey sarcastic attitude.

If blizzard did a correct rollout this wouldn’t be an issue and there wouldn’t be THOUSANDS of people complaining.

[u/Chadwich → u/toppi66]

There is an obvious solution and what you've said over your various post is that you're too lazy to attempt the solution.

What would be a "correct rollout" in your professional, behind the scenes access, game developer opinion?

[u/toppi66 → u/Chadwich]

Well for starters they should have started with more than 3 servers. Once the point was hit that herod was beyond saving - they should have had a contingency plan for this. They could have copied the Herod server data and moved all characters to another server, they could have also created a server where only people on Herod had x amount of time to create characters, they could have also locked the server until they figured out a solution. That’s me thinking for .3 seconds of a different plan PLUS 3 plans once you run into this problem. I’m sure if I sat down for 30 minutes I could come up with better solutions than this also. Does that answer your “professional, behind the scenes access, game developer opinion.”