Last few entries of their Twitter page has some updates:

https://twitter.com/BlizzardCS?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1170431100155584513&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mmo-champion.com%2Fcontent%2F

As to the why, it may never be known, unless they catch any potential suspects.

I followed the guide exactly and was over level to what the guide said I should be, so may be potential for something being missed along the way or grinding out a quest drop took shorter than the norm?

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Ignore me! I did a few extra things when I was in Silverpine which could explain the level disparity when I followed the guide, as I had more grind time in Pyrewood Village before I left for The Barrens.

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@Boom762 The servers themselves will be locked down tightly with the ToS as Blizzard's shield for banning the cancerous element who will flock to the game. Their will always be dickheads but if the community is moderated well, there shouldn't be an issue in the long run, hopefully.

@ReverendChris said in Where are the PVE players going to?:

@MagicMungo said in Where are the PVE players going to?:

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Much better chance of working out the overall population and language breakdown on each server.

It looks like there is a pretty good faction balance, that will make things better. There are a lot of people going to be playing, I hope the queue times are not too bad.

For the most part, Shazzrah was a hellscape of racism and shit talking, so bailed on there to go to Gehennas which actually seems to not have that, even if there is a little trolling, the <APES> seem to be settling on this as well, so could be some good PvP given how very evenly this server is balanced (48% A vs 52% H).

Thanks for making a place for us to loiter about in, while we wait for Classic to happen. It has kept the time ticking over whilst I have been bored and needed a video to nerd out on

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/new-wow-classic-realm-coming/69910?u=meritneith-turalyon

Due to extremely high demand, we will be establishing the following new WoW Classic realm at approximately 20:00 CEST (19:00 BST) on Wednesday, August 14:
Gehennas – PvP – English
We suggest that players choosing a realm consider this one, as we expect that other English PvP realms may experience severe queues at release.

Finally, we start to see them expanding the bloated English PvP mega servers, tooks them ages to provision but least they finally started listening.

Zandalari Tribe guys seem super chill, so you should be good. A fair few of the PvP gangs have setup there to avoid the clusterbang that is Golemagg and Shazzrah after last nights disastrous name reservation, so you should have a mixed bag or hardcore and low-key RP'ers.

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From my experience on an RP server during some server downtime back in the day. They were pretty chill, so long as their immersion wasn't completely broken and you made a vague attempt to fit in. It isn't as over the top as some people make out but that's not to say all were like those guys.

I imagine with only two RP server types this time round, things will very much be different, as all of them will congregate in the same place and you'll have varying degrees of how much they expect you to behave. Just do you and enjoy whatever effort you invest into that type of play, it really isn't for everyone but it was good fun for the hours we played there.

Pro's - Fun, interesting and immersive.
Con's - Difficult to fit in when not used to it, many complaints if you don't, it gets tedious if not in the mood.

NOTE: Con's are mostly based off the moanings of guidlies who were there with us.