It sounds good in theory but when the population dies off fast and you decide to go play on a real server (NA realms) and can’t transfer off the oce server it won’t be a fun time
If OCE dies, merge us with NA? Isn’t a difficult solution.
They did it in SoD.
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If they are just going to migrate us in the end what’s the point of being separated to start with?
(replying to your other post) You will get more pvp every hour of the day on USW. Rather than playing OCE and watching the server inevitably die and then slowly wait for the migration to USW.
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It logically doesnt sound difficult but they never do this on time.
It would honestly make more sense from an MMO point of view to force us to play on NA west with a much higher population of players AND add some sort of batching window (not 400ms obviously) back in so we are not at a huge disadvantage in terms of ping (for pvp).
I am all for this, OCE people cannot mix with the general public they must be seperated and contained with no possibility of transfers.
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Yes “if” but nothing is certain.
It happened in SoD yes it died but so did other realms at similar times.
There’s zero harm in making one when there’s a full solution to a possible outcome.
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If they learned from previous mistakes that have happened at least twice now with oce server population then we wont be getting oce servers. If they dont learn from mistakes then you are lucky and we will get them temporarily until they die off…
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When’s the second time? OCE is still healthy in Cata.
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Previous classic versions have shown that the OCE can support (at least) a server while the game modes are popular.
SoD and Cata have had massive population fall offs and then OCE realms get grim, but that isn’t guaranteed for any fresh mode.
I would like to see a model going forward where Blizz release OCE realms on any fresh release (within reason), and then if that game mode does die down, merge the realms to NA.
I’m not sure if anyone has tried to PvP as melee with 200ms, but it’s incredibly frustrating to run on top of moving people and be out of range.
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Season of mastery and SoD are 2 recent examples of the oce pop dying off pretty fast or just being very underwhelming in general
How popular was NA SoM? To my knowledge it wasn’t popular at all with zero interest.
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However they had game reasons to why the population died off, SoD was criminal with phase 3? whichever sunken temple was dont remember.
That phase had zero content after the first couple of weeks and many many players myself included had no reason to keep going once it was all done.
The situatiuon is completely different as its another crack at just plain old classic no bells of whistles (sure a couple QoL things but not complete changes in content)
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From what I recall OCE was pretty active in SoD through until late ST/early MC.
It’s fair that OCE servers can die and need to be merged, but it depends on the overall playerbase.
Personally I think classic classic will do pretty well, and the usual slump around AQ will be bouyed by TBC hype. I could be wrong and being on a dead server sucks, but imo if Blizz just promised to merge OCE to NA if it did die, it’d resolve that risk.
And yes, I know merging servers takes a decent amount of work for Blizz, but I think it’s worthwhile for them to try to set something up because this problem will occur at every new launch from now.
I don’t want the solution to be no OCE realms from now on, that’s pretty bad from a gameplay perspective.
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Not having OCE realms do more harm than good. Many people will see no OCE realms and turn their heads.
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cry for OCE servers, then cry that OCE servers are dead, but then cry when they try to merge to NA… the cycle continues
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I guess Americans call anything crying these days.
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Not a huge fan of playing with 150+ ms on a pvp server
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The previous OCE Classic realms were packed from launch all the way through to WOTLK.
It makes zero sense not to have them again for this launch.
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Please drop a oce server
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To those saying why not start on NA if they will migrate us. If we get a whole Vanilla and TBC at 25ms and then get migrated… that is 2 years of better experience.
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