WoW Classic will soon get character transfers to help reduce queue times

Players can now return to Azeroth as in 2006: World of Warcraft Classic servers came into service on August 26th. But the long queues to play upset many players, which led the developer Blizzard Entertainment to make some adjustments. The company has already increased the number of people allowed to play on a server and will soon allow players to transfer their characters from the most populated servers to more populated servers.

On Tuesday, Blizzard published an article about free character moves on the WoW Classic forums. Moving characters is a way to help balance server populations and reduce the time required to connect to the game. The developer indicates that the option will be available in the coming days at no charge for certain domains . Players wishing to participate in the character transfer will need to ensure that their character is not a guild leader, that they have no current bids or active auctions and that they have a box. empty letters.

On Aug. 28, a previously posted message on the Blizzard forums for WoW Classic noted the proposed solution to increase the number of people who could connect and play the game, hoping that it would reduce waiting time – and that some waiters do not wait at all.

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."

WoW Classic was launched on the American continent from 15h. On August 26, many of you played role-playing to relive the massively multiplayer RPG. Players who tried to connect immediately, however, 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.

Another sign of the popularity of the WoW Classic: over 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 Classic game precedes the World of Warcraft extensions released in the last 15 years since the initial launch of WoW. The WoW Classic version of the game is 1.12, known as the Drums of War update. It was released in August 2006, before the release of the first major expansion, The Burning Crusade.

Blizzard was expecting extensive queues before launch and more realms for players to join when the servers became active, but that was not enough as many players tried to connect. The developer has also increased the number of character slots to 10 per realm.

Since players started level 1 in WoW Classic, it meant that hundreds of people were trying to complete the same low 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 August 27th. When the servers came back, the players had to put themselves in a long queue 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. September 3: Add character transfer details.