Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure

Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by Falcon9 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @08:51PM (#11501363)

My initial thoughts were that such density in Ironforge is not much compared to Vanilla or TBC high pop realms(1) from back in the day(2), and that latency is painful to watch. Then he went outside and that explained the latency and also represented probably the largest crowd I've seen in one place. I hope Morhaime and some of the other guys at Blizzard see this video.

(1)By calling it a realm instead of a server I suppose I out myself as a former WoW GM.

(2) Fairly typical player density early in Vanilla (in an atypical and hillarious situation): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ_WdYvwrDA

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Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by gthtjtkt on Thursday April 14, 2016 @11:28PM (#11501894)

The server had 5x the population of a reatil Vanilla realm. Those were capped at 2,500 but Nostalrius regularly peaked near 13,000 concurrent players.

Their second server was also reaching ~5,000 players at the time they were shut down.

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Re:Warcraft fans' fury at Blizzard over server closure by cozuya on Friday April 15, 2016 @11:27AM (#11505062)

I was a raid leader/main tank for the guild who got the first ever Nefarian kill. We announced on forums that he dropped a head quest similar to Onyxia that turns in at Stormwind and people started flooding our server with new humans, thousands of them. It was insanity. To no one's surprise turning in the quest crashed the server...

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