World of Warcraft Forever Hotfix Will Thin Out Overcrowded Zones and Help Faction Balance

World of Warcraft Forever’s huge launch has left some zones so crowded that players struggle to complete quests, prompting Blizzard to reduce the number of players in each zone. The hotfix makes a larger reduction on PvP rulesets, where crowded areas compound faction imbalance and can leave players vulnerable while questing.

The game uses one server with PvP, PvE, role-playing and Hardcore rulesets, dividing players into world instances called layers. Blizzard says the most uneven PvP faction split in a region is about 55/45, but it wants to move closer to 50/50; character creation will become harder for the more populous faction, currently Horde in North America and Alliance in European role-play PvP. The company says it will keep monitoring zone populations and faction balance.