Pop cap

[Alhanelem]

- A maximum limit has been placed on the number of players who can be in one area.
* If you attempt to move into an area which has already reached its maximum limit, you will receive a message saying you cannot enter that area. Should this happen, please wait awhile and try again.

Thoughts? Will this affect whole zone or just a small part of it?

If the whole zone, expect big trouble entering Coerthas...

Ittl be the whole zone. The limit is almost certainly set far above the normal level of activity in the zone- it's designed to keep the server from epxloding when the entire server population pounces on Coerthas to get a piece of the Behemoth FATE.

Fix the servers then.

It's not somethign that they can just fix. The capacity limits of the servers are set under the assumption that many people will be in many different areas (each area is handled by different machines in each server cluster). But if everyone dogpiles into one zone, that heavily stresses one part of the servers and can bring the whole thing down, or at least bring down the zone that's overpopulated.

This is something that's true of basically every mmo in the history of ever.