clearly you were not playing Era before; I excuse you for your ignorance.
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Is that all you got lol. Yes at one point era was popular, then it died out. HC revived it. The end
Hey!
You!
Stop being reasonable, this is the internet.
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So far has not happened.
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Era is BIS.
All we needed is FRESH era and we got a train wreck instead called SoD.
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Yes they should - and it should be done as publicly as possible (put the toon in a cage in the main city for a few weeks after the ban or something) to discourage others from engaging in such activities.
Probably donât have to even ban that many people for the majority of RMT to stop or at least dramatically slow down.
Another fun option Harland and I were joking about would be to have all the toons on their account turn to critters (snakes or roaches) that cannot do anything with all the gold / items they have. They can simply crawl around Azeroth.
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Thatâs the best curse for them, forever a rat.
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Era was on the rise before the HC craze.
Adding âthe endâ does not make your statements any more true.
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Letâs be honest.
When TBC began and so many left for Outland, that was a lean time.
But not quite dead.
The clustering up did help a lot.
I was very surprised when so many willingly went to tbc.
Then, much later, all the clone threads started to pop up and it all made sense - many just didnât remember how horrible the expansions really were compared to era.
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I played tbcc, but it was for my guild more than anything.
I ended up not loving tbcc (SoM was not great, but I had more fun there while I was playing tbcc âŚ), but Wrath is the one that I sort of regret spending any time playing. Itâs all good though. I cloned for characters to Era as well so nothing for me was lost.
Also as to Era and the population, there are people who frequent the Wrath forum who donât really know when the Era ârepopulationâ started, but they attribute all of Eraâs success to hardcore, but they do not play Era and usually, they did not even play hardcore. Some of them also say that hardcore and era are now dead because âeveryone is raiding Icc nowâ. They basically donât know what they are talking about.
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Very similar experience except that I had less fun than anticipated in SoM due to the wildly out of control rmt (like worse than TBCC at that time) assisting me in gold capping multiple characters with lightning speed.
I didnât clone to Era but had left some non-fully leveled alts behind. I sent my dirty SoM cache to Wrath Reforged and basically started over on Era. Have no regrets. Not cloning was great because I could engage without the temptation of assistance from a kitted out clone.
It was quiet but the playerbase was so supportive of one another. Bloodsail underwent a change in atmosphere when the hc bandwagoners arrived. Prior to that the coexisting of hc and non-hc was awesome. The OG HC players were and are aces. But there were other like you and I, Mootwo, that kept up with Era or were content to selectively log for progression content and return to play Era more regularly. Era ebbed but never died.
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I love Era!
Also love what they are doing with SoD.
I also enjoy arenas in both WotLK and Retail!
Yay me! Yay you!
<3
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Classic players ruined Classic. What made the original run of the game truly lightning-in-a-bottle special was the community, and multiple factors went into propping up that community experience. Many canât be replicated no matter what, but one thing that hypothetically could have been â and which simply wasnât â was how close the original community got to being just all sorts of folk.
The first run of WoW drew in the largest number of demographics of probably any game ever, but it turns out that is not who returned to play Classic. It turns out that there is an intense connection between the nostalgia-addled nochange crowd and both toxicity and conservatism. Remains as a very odd connection to me, but it is what it is. These people enjoy Classic because it gives them a hierarchy they can attempt to be on top of by exchanging time only, rather than by being more skilled, and because it gives them a stronger connection to other players that they can use to grief in a more impactful way.
Basically the antisocial degenerates and sociopaths from the original playerbase preferentially returned for Classic, and now make up a significantly larger portion of it. Larger relatively and large enough in an absolute sense to pass critical mass and pretty much rot the entire thing like a spoiled apple. This phenomenon seems sadly consistent among classiclike games in general.
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Fresh era and everything will be fine
Social skills are real skills. Networking skills are real skills. I like to use these skills when I play my MMORPGs. The most fun part is making friends, sticking together, and having the back of others in the community, instead of everyone just staying apart and playing solo like a bunch of lone wolves, surrounded by other wolves, but ones that you never get to know.
Era still offers a community, this version of the game organically allows community forming. You just need to look and not assume people are rotten and you will find good people. Like how I am assumed to be rotten by you but donât really try to know me.
This game still attracts people who like to have community and play with others, and wanting that is not toxic at all.
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No way you just said era barely had gdkps before HC came around.
Gdkp have literally been 98% of raiding in era since its release.
Era going to be boomin after SoD ends and Cata classic releases.
Era is the true classic wow.
It is indeed BiS
Yeah Era/HC is BIS.
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It killed OCE pretty much, but free transfer to Whitemane and life goes on.