I think the problem is the lack of “Hard” games. There aren’t any “Gamers” games out there. What draws people to a game is it’s difficulty, popularity and beating a challenge. If a game is easy there is no point. Think games with an infinite skill cap grab real gamers. Think there are more real gamers out there today just they are bored and play what is available.
Guess time will tell.
I remain optimistic to thinking on the absolute low end we launch with 3 million subs and grow from there. Think future MMO’s will be modeled after Classic and will inspire other gaming companies to make great games.
All it took was GGG to make PoE which is considered by many as the sequel to Diablo 2. They listened to the players and made a better game.
So after Classic hope we get huge MMO’s again from it’s success and we can forget the evil road retail took forever.
Europe in itself is not like the USA.
Our cultures and languages are vastly different from each other if you guys think that the differences between California and the bible belt for example are big I say you haven’t seen anything yet.
Europe is a pile of nationalities that tend to have vastly more differences than similarities when compared to each other. It’s not some paradise where everyone thinks alike and everything is glorious and happy actually pretty far from it.
There is 24 spoken languages in the EU imagine that for a while…then imagine if the US was the same, crossing a state line and finding out they don’t speak the same language.
The Classic EU populations either get their own designated servers by language at least the big ones like German and French or the players will organize and do it manually this is a fact.
I made a big mistake a very long time ago, where i didn’t do enough research on the realm i put my character on. I went there to raid with a guild, only to find out that the realm was an unofficial non-english realm, and not even one i could deal with with my german-english-swedish skills as it seemed to be bulgarian or something.
Felt very wrong to see the trade chat be spammed in a language you can’t understand at all, and many guilds using that same language on what was supposed to be an english realm.
If this goes through, i will also definitely keep a very close eye on which reams will end up to be different languages again, cause playing on one of these feels unplayable, even more so in Classic.
There is a hunger out there. People are starving for real, challenging games. Just look no further than the success of the Dark Souls games. And then add to that the strong community aspect of Classic. It’s going to be a huge success, IMO.
If Blizzard doesn’t make the next big MMO for that market, someone else will. Classic is about to turn a lot of heads in the game development world.
Irish person here. I will be returning to US servers for Classic because besides English the only language I have basic understanding of is Gaelic, and you can imagine how useful that is.
Don’t be surprised if you find an east coast US server full of us Irish and Brits.
You see it. I am from Germany and I leveled up a character to com to this forum. Its unbelievable what is going on rightnow in the german and french forums.
One of the leading cores of an authentic Classic WoW is destroyed with this decision. There are so many problems and language barriers. They talking about creating german private Servers.
These Servers will not work! We seriously need national Servers. I hope Blizzard will hear their Community.
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