My cluster’s AH is certainly sparse but it does get used. Typically I post supplies on there that my guildies could use once they make a request in disc/gchat. I used to post goods sporadically but I’ve been burned a few too many times by non-guildies taking advantage of the considerably reduced prices I set for the items.
Also, I’m 5 Dings away from leveling my 5th lv.60 and I’ll probably finally level a healer once I finish with him!
Doing all of these along with 1 fresh server for each expansion that would feed into Classic Era would bea good idea, I think everyone going into Wrath from TBC is a good thing. At that point the classic community will really start to get spread out pretty thin imo. Having Classic Era as a museum for vanilla is a good idea, but I don’t think they should have Forever servers for each expansion or the population just won’t be enough, especially if the community end up wanting Cataclysm after Wrath
not having wrath or tbc era realms only subtracts from the community makes it so players cant play how they want i was hoping to play vanilla tbc and wrath over many years prob will end up quitting sometime during wrath because playing tbc or wrath is pointless to me unless theres gonna be era realms
Well I can confirm to you I am farming and leveling alts. I don’t need support. Actually I love leveling while farming.
That’s a poor elf analysis. Obviously SOM is new so there is a hype. Should think about hat
You mad ?
As opposed to the 6 sections they currently have?
In your opinion, would that make much of a difference?
I can understand that man, I think there’s definitely people that would want to stay in tbc and especially people that would want to stay in Wrath. I just worry about server population, I think it might be a good idea to have people playing 1 Xpac at a time so the game always has an enjoyable amount of population but idk 🤷 I feel like merging all the Era servers into 1 server and leaving 1 server in TBC, Maybe a couple servers they could end up merging later on, but I really think theyd be able to get away with just 1 server and not have queue times but also just a guess really.
Not really.
classic era has a playable population on 1 pvp and 1 pve server clusters and people still log onto some other realms if they were to merge classic era down to 1 pvp and 1 pve realm the population could be really great especially after season of mastery ends. i think 1 pvp and 1 pve realm for tbc era is all it needs to thrive. i think theres somewhere around 1000ish players that still play classic era na and i think tbc era could have the same amount.
You must have missed the hype around the hardcore mode of play.
One doesn’t, though, have to abide by death=delete to have fun with a challenge of playing the game without using the auction house or boosting or handouts from a main. Using just drops or quest rewards can be fun. Maximizing your choice of professions to help yourself along. There’s a lot to be said for self sufficiency.
There’s not just one way to play.
I never said there was only one way to play. And I am entirely self sufficient. The point of my post was to explain reasons why a lot of poeple who want to play don’t. And that is because many of the aspects of the game that people enjoy are simply unusable. So to your point, there are even less ways to play now due to the low population that is a result of blizzard doing what they said they wouldn’t.
Yes I’m sure you are but my post was to confirm that the auction house condition is not what is keeping other people from playing. HC folk are not hampered by that at all for example. What else have you done as a part of the community to bring people in as it appears at this time that Blizz is content to sit on their hands?
That was the point. Appeal to people and be aware they may value other ways to play.
edit To pass the time until Wrath drops, a friend and I rolled anew on an Era server. We don’t need or use the AH and are having a good time. We’ve run across high levels that have offered numerous times to run us though dungeons, give us items/gold and I’m sure that’s in the attempt to keep us playing. It’s been nice to see and we’ve thanked them but are going to do this on our own. We picked a server that neither of us had established characters on specifically for this purpose. Do I believe that everyone wants to play this way? Of course not. But it is viable and possible.
For current Era realms just merge everyone onto 1 pvp and 1 pve server.
If theyre not gonna go full classic + (big mistake Blizz) then just do random, bonus events. End game dungeon bosses drop twice the loot one weekend, have a world boss spawn in the barrens, hold some kind of special pvp event in gurubashi arena and on and on. So many things you could do.
Hell they probably need to do that for BC, Wrath, and SoM as well at this point. The players have pretty much self-sorted into 2-6 servers anyway.
Now that I think about it, my concern is that there is only one way to play. You make your character. Then you quest, level, and farm almost entirely alone, or have someone boost you. Then, you try to find someone to do end game content with. I’ve always enjoyed the dynamic of leveling my characters as I progress through the BG tiers. Right now, only the lvl 60 tiers are active one night a week maybe. I find that pretty sad and disappointing. I’d really like to see every aspect of this game being enjoyed. Without something to motivate people to level new characters the way the game intended (no boosting) in large numbers, I don’t see how classic era will get out of the very narrow and limited play style that its currently stuck in. I hope I’m wrong.