World of Warcraft is no doubt a popular game. When Ahn'Qiraj was opened there was a "massive" event in Southern Silithus around the actual opening of the AQ Gates. Amongst some of the problems this caused was the fact that the servers got overloaed due to the insane amount of players gathered in one place in one zone. Servers crashing left and right was not unheard of, and queues to get online on the "first" server to open the AQ gates was a perpetual fact. Players have been concerned about this kind of problem repeating itself. This time around, however, Blizzard has decided to take a different yet probably still as entertaining approach to the re-opening of the Dark Portal.
Tseric, one of the official Blizzard posters on the World of Warcraft forums shared his throught with us: it is nice of players to think about these things but there is no need to be worried. He explained in length:
The re-opening of the dark portal is an event that will change Azeroth as we currently know it, and it's only fitting that the tremble of such an event is felt throughout the world. It's still likely that players will group up at the portal, but the event we're planning won't encourage it as the AQ event did.
Hopefully he is right, and the servers will remain stable. One thing is certain though, it is probably smart to have a good book or some similiar form of entertainment handy should the server in fact go down!
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As a Magtheridon-EU inhabitant i've been at the opening of the gates and we were the 2nd realm in EU to open the gates (and fastest EU realm) so the server was crowded with lvl1's and ppl moving to Silithus it crashed about 40-50 times in just a few hours. A few thousand ppl were waiting for Kungen (the keyholder) to open the gate.. Finally Kungen dindt open the gate until somewhere secretly arranged at night.. \o/
Same goes for the Questline for the opening of the AQ gate that has a part of Dragon killing in Moonglade.. atleast 160 ~ 200 raid-geared ppl where there to kill it.. crashed the server multiple times and extremly laggy..
Let's hope this kind of stuff improves!
lol newsflash, we all know the realms will crash anyway
TBH if blizz would be smart they should have added into 2.0.1 patch so that everybody woudl finish off the required stuff for the opening and the NPC's will just entertain + keep the player busy till TBC hits and then the huge opening will take place, because Blizzard said that players can step thru the Dark Portal without completing the World event it's a bit silly to have a Dark Portal opening world event at the same time :S but maybe it's done this way for custumers who couldn't get their copy of TBC that day due to it was sold out .... can't wait to see =D
Yeah Lets just crash every zone yeah!!!
scourge invasion anyone?
i guess the whole day. Jan 16. maybe the whole week? just guessing... But i think that would be the best idea, couse there's a lot of ppl who can't get the TBC retail at Jan 16. and Blizz need to think to those customers eather.
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I wonder when the event will take place.