Updated 20/12
Hey all, the following realm connections went ahead as planned last night: English Realms
French Realms
Spanish Realms
German Realms
To see a list of all realms connected so far, see our other forum post. We’ll provide updates on the next batch of realm connections as they're available. For more information on Connected Realms, please read the preview blog post here. |
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I've updated the original post with new info for y'all :)
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*hugs Takralus*
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Why are low pop realms connected with other low pop realms? it should be a high pop realm with a low pop realm. We have just begun connecting realms, and many more connections are planned still. Once we are done with the entire process, the population on all connected realms should be quite healthy :-) |
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Any plans on connecting full servers with dead ones and moving people over. Or just splitting the server in two, but keeping them connected? The current high population realms that have queues will remain as they are today, however we are monitoring the situation on those realms. In case you are interested, I recently made a post in another thread explaining why we aren't currently planning to connect the high population realms with other realms. |
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Faction balance is definitely being considered, but it is a tricky factor though, because generally the factions are not balanced within the same realm types. If we were connecting PvE realms with PvP realms, then faction balance would be much less of an issue since our PvP realms are typically Horde heavy, and our PvE realms are typically Alliance heavy. But since we have to connect realms within the same realm types, the population will be increased on the connected realms but we cannot fully balance the factions on all of those realms. That being said, the overall population situation on those realms should feel vastly improved overall once we are done with the whole process, so although the outnumbered factions in some cases will remain outnumbered, they should still see a nice boost to their numbers. |
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Sure. As an example; Emeriss and Hakkar have been connected now, and Crushridge will be connected with those two realms next, and more realms will be connected to those three in the future. Remember, what you are seeing now is just the beginning. Plenty more connections will be made, which means that it is way to soon to proclaim doom and gloom on the few connections that have been made so far ;-) |
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I'm sorry, once more, but You are connecting 2 COMPLETELY empty servers to emeriss. why would you connect 3 realms together while 1 has an "ok" amount of 90's, emeriss in this case, and 2 thats made of thin air? isn't it better to connect hakkar with emeriss and crushridge with another realm like emeriss? I don't see it fullfilling the purpose of populating the realms further, nor help the technical issues by mixing in massive amounts of realms without it changing anything. Because those three realms will be connected, the population will effectively be larger on all the three realms. Right now it might not feel like much of a population boost for the players on Emeriss, but it will already feel like a significant population boost for the players on Crushridge and Hakkar. We have just begun the realm connection process though, and more realms(yet to be announced) will be connected to Hakkar, Crushridge, and Emeriss. In short, once the entire realm connection process is complete for Emeriss and all the realms(some that are still to be announced) that Emeriss will be connected to, players on all of those realms will feel like they are playing on one single well populated realm. As I mentioned before, this is only just the beginning of the realm connection process, so it is a little too soon to declare doom and gloom ;-) after seeing that Scarshield Legions and Spooregar will be merged, The plan is that Scarshield Legion and Sporeggar will be connected with more realms in the future, but we cannot connect all realms in one go. We have to do it in a staggered manner to make sure that realms will be connected 100% correctly without any complications. One of the reasons why we are not announcing all the planned realm connections right away is because we want to be careful with raising false expectations in case something does not go according to the plan. If we announce specific realm connections in advance, then we will naturally raise a lot of hope and expectations for the players on those realms scheduled to be connected, but if some unforeseen complications would then arise that would result in us not being able to connect some realms as planned, then we will have a lot of upset and disappointed people. |
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All the following connections are now live:
Additional time is going to be required to complete the connection below:
We don’t have a specific date yet on when this connection will occur, but we’ll provide another update once we do. |
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Hey Vaneras i´m curious to know whats th target population for each final group of connected realms. Something like a high populated server? or Medium? I can't give you any specific numbers, But the target is high population realms with some additional capacity for new players and/or migrating players. We basically want a healthy population for the connected realms, but not so high that there will be queues from the get go. |
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Yep! Regarding Connected Realms, the only noticeable difference you should expect to see is the realm-name being attached to the nickname of anyone who doesn’t belong to your own realm. The whole experience should feel seamless. Not being connected to any other realm should not affect you in any negative way, on the contrary, we expect everything to simply be… better. |
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Update 05/11 – As a part of our ongoing Connected Realms implementation, we will be connecting additional realms as listed below. We don’t have a specific date yet on when these connections will occur, but we’ll provide another update once we do.
Next Realm Connections:
We’ll provide updates on the next batch of realm connections as they're available. For more information on Connected Realms, please read the preview blog post here. |
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I see there is now a currently linked realms sticky: http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/8715582685 Thanks Andraii (and Dottie and everyone else who made suggestions), yeah we definitely want to keep it nice and clear as the list inevitably expands. I'll get to work on that right now /salute!
Yup we took stock of the current connections and tweaked the order a little. Stay tuned for further news on those :)
It's not something we're currently planning. |
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Some realms that were mentioned before have been re-scheduled. We're constantly re-assessing the progress and adjusting if necessary.
They're coming! Same as the Portuguese realm :) |
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@Takralus: One minor edit, if you don't mind. *chuckle* Done! Thanks again :D And the fancy list of Connected Realms sorted by language (thanks Andraii!) is up \o/ |
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We changed up the order a little based on the current connections. It's an ongoing process, sorry for the confusion! Keep an eye out for further news on those realms :) |