So... Classic.

[Shevron]

I leveled Paladin to 8 and Rogue to 12. I feel like thats enough classic for me.

Hahaha. That's probably the average extent of the Classic journey most people are gonna make.

Was watching Alwynn streaming it for a couple of hours yesterday, and was already getting PTSD while he ran Moonbrook in Westfall.

[Gergel]

That bad, huh?

Meanwhile there's a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth in Blizzard's forums from all the people who really really want to play on an extremely high population server and are facing thousands-long queues.

[Shevron]

Hydraxian Warlords is pretty much queue-free round the clock, but the others were having it baaaaaad.

At about 10:00pm, Zandalari Tribe (Medium) was 6,000+ @ 136 mins wait time.

Then poked a full one just out of curiosity - 14,000+ @ over 280 mins wait time.

Apparently today Blizz changed the way population count works (Haggle has the article)

New Realm Population Label System

Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

With a hotfix to WoW Classic a few moments ago, we’ve changed how the realm population labels work in order to display realm populations in a more meaningful way.



How it worked before this hotfix

As we explained here, the system previously calculated the population labels by comparing all realms to the most-populated realm. This could result in a very crowded realm (with a lengthy queue) showing up as “Medium”, since it was being compared to the realm that had the highest population and a potentially massive queue.



How population labels work now

This system now measures each realm against a realm’s absolute capacity. Medium indicates a healthy total population on a realm – well in excess of what we considered Full in a 2006 – with room for more players to log-in. You’ll now see a High label if the realm is close to having a queue, and a Full label if the realm currently has a queue.

[Alwynn]

I'm sitting on a 1000 player queue in ZT. 30 minute queue , before 3pm on a Wednesday!

[Shevron]

I bet the Blizzard forums are more toxic than Chernobyl's reactor #4's exposed core right now

[Juste]

Ahaha Queue for game to get in to queue to kill mobs.

[Shevron]

That's actually impressive!

[Juste]

Eh, it keeps pulling me back in. I enjoy the challenge classic mobs give to you and how you can actually outlevel them and then come back to whoop their asses if you want to.

[Serendipity]

Interesting, isn't it? WoW creepingly got easier. Then you try the original game and you're running out of mana and all sorts.

Two mobs and I'm done.

[Cherwina]

I've taken to popping back and forth between them to see what I like from Retail and what I like from Classic. I think there are a few retail tweaks that would be good on Classic. The Calendar, B opening all bags instead of just one. Little things mostly to do with UI, basically. I think it's interesting that the Classic gameplay encouraged a social dynamic that's seemingly dead in Retail.