WoW Classic could get shorter standby times thanks to the Blizzard hotfix

Players can now return to Azeroth as in 2006, while World of Warcraft Classic servers have been online since Monday. The long queues to play have upset many players, but Blizzard Entertainment announced on Wednesday that it was going to reduce the wait by deploying a fix to increase the number of people allowed to play on a server .

WoW Classic went to live in the Americas from 15h PT Monday. Players who tried to connect right away probably ended up waiting. Several players have shared their waiting time in the WoW Classic subreddit, with waiting times ranging from 30 minutes to a few hours.

A post posted on the Blizzard Forums for WoW Classic on Wednesday indicates that the developer is deploying a fix to increase the number of people who can connect and play the game. This should shorten the wait time and prevent some servers from playing. expect.

Ian Hazzikostas, director of the game World of Warcraft, responded to criticisms made on the Blizzard forums during long queues.

"We have tried to prioritize the long-term health of our kingdom communities, recognizing that if we exceeded the target in terms of launch servers, we could quickly add new realms during opening hours." he said on Tuesday. "But if we went out with too many servers, weeks or months, we would have a much more difficult problem to solve."

Another sign of the popularity of the WoW Classic: more than a million viewers watched different streams of the game on Twitch Monday. According to the Tully SullyGnome analysis site, viewers have watched more than 20 million hours in the past seven days.

The game predates many of the extensions released in the last 15 years since its launch. The WoW Classic version of the game is version 1.12, known as the Drums of War update released in August 2006, before the release of the first major expansion, The Burning Crusade.

Blizzard was expecting extended queues on Monday and would add more realms to the players to join when the servers come into service, but that was not enough because many players were trying to connect. The developer has also increased the number of character slots to 10 per realm.

The players who were finally able to connect received a surprise on some servers. Everyone starts at Level 1 in WoW Classic, which means that hundreds of people are trying to complete the same lower level quests. Some servers have seen players line up in order to defeat some of the monsters needed for a mission.

You can say that I am on a British server since the players instinctively started queuing to take a quest item each. #WoWClassic pic.twitter.com/l4A7GtXTta

– Jack open commissions (@Grimolk) August 26, 2019

Blizzard shut down the servers for a short time for maintenance on Tuesday. When the servers came back, the players still had plenty of time to connect to the game.

Those interested in playing WoW Classic must purchase a subscription from Blizzard Shop for $ 15 per month. This subscription also gives players access to the current version of WoW. All current WoW subscribers will have access to WoW Classic.

The idea of ​​WoW Classic came from players who started their own private servers with older versions of the game, commonly known as vanilla WoW. In April 2016, Blizzard started stop these unauthorized servers, causing a reaction from the fan base, but this prompted the developer to look for a suitable solution. Blizzard makes the first WoW Classic Announcement in November 2017 and in May gave him the August 26 release date.

Originally released August 26 at 12:24. PT.
Updates, August 27 and 28: Add details and developer comments.