Fresh HC server leak

I’m a bit peeved about it, personally. I’ve been wanting to get into Hardcore for a while now, but it’s only becoming a reality for me more recently. But now that there appears to be a new server coming in the next few months, I don’t want to dig my heels into a server community only for it to die in favor of the new server.

On the slight upside, the new server seems like it’ll be something of a containment zone for streamers and their sycophants (at least for the first few months, anyway) so I’d probably want to avoid it anyway, but I wouldn’t be surprised if a good chunk of the existing Hardcore player base will end up jumping to the new server because that’s where everyone else is going. Besides, if I want to avoid the streamer wave, it means I’d have to put off Hardcore for another set of months, which is lame.

Bro either play HC or don’t lmao.

Streamers existing in game really doesn’t affect you, but if you want to avoid them on the off chance anyways then go to the existing servers.

HC is about going agane anyways so this line :point_down:

Makes no sense. Either people stay on current or they move. If they move then go agane. The community itself can migrate servers.

IMO it just sounds like you “want” to do it because it sounds interesting or cool or whatever but at your core you really don’t want to. Which is fine, just either play or don’t. This limbo state you’re in is low key weird

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you’ll die well before then, so you got nothing to lose.

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i know right :expressionless: so ridiculous
it’s like they get enjoyment out of denying us a dang fresh vanilla

I want to do an official blizzard challenge. Nudist, no talents used, SSF, white knight, soloist. LESSSGO
So much more fun on a SF server.

You clearly don’t know what sandbox game is

If you like HC, play HC on the current servers, ignore the rumors.

First don’t count on there actually being a new HC server, it simply makes zero sense to launch a fresh server for a game thats already essentially fresh and which doesn’t have the population to even support two servers. As far as I know, Blizzard has announced nothing, if they were really going to launch a new server in a few months, we probably would hear something officially from Blizzard, and its extremely unlikely that they would channel this through a leak to a streamer. It’s far more likely that the streamer is simply created this “rumor” to get clicks/views.

Secondly, this is HC, you’re almost surely going to die, so even if they launch a “fresh” server, its likely not going to be that big of a deal if you really want to start over, also most people have done the HC thing once and have no desire to do it again if they aren’t currently active on DP, even if its fresh. Even a “SF server” which is highly unlikely would likely result in only a small population going to the server, as that mode has almost nobody playing on it, with most people likely leaving ultimately after a few months, resulting in a server with less of a population than Skull Rock.

Lastly, there simply isn’t a huge reason for most people to leave the current servers and start over, and honestly if they did launch it, its going to do nothing but spread the small population out even more. Most people will have zero motivation or benefit to change servers, and while certainly you will get a few because “fresh” after a few months, my guess is most will end up back on DP.

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i just wanna know who the asian guy is saying there will be a new fresh HC server :expressionless: is he really an authority figure here

HC is fresh, except for economy.

Random server d/c is exactly why I quit playing

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Would be cool and relatively doable to implement a rollback in case of mass disconnects.
Though this could result in intentional denial of service attacks.

New HC servers make no sense whatsoever.

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It could make a little sense if they were planning to do fresh classic, and hc was just added a fresh server because of that.

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The only benefit I see is reset of economy and accumulated recipes etc.
But this also adds more fragmentation of hc population.

However we are currently missing sf-only servers.

There is practically zero benefit to resetting the economy on HC, it’s really about as good as it will ever be, even including Petri flasks. A fresh HC server just really makes no sense in any way, here is hoping that the rumor is just that and its just another streamer trying to farm clicks off nieve players who follow streamers.

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I just enjoy building up from scratch more, nothing more to it.
Of course the end-state of new server will be similar in few months.

What “development effort” do you imagine went into Self-found?? Literally all it does is disable the AH, mailbox and trading.

apparently a lot, it took them like 6 months to deliver the dang thing :expressionless:

I actually expect it took quite a bit of development, nothing in wow is super simple, as the code is old and poorly documented, also even things like mail, AH, and trading will have a ton of hooks into the code.

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Wow! Did you work for Blizzard in the development of WoW Classic? If so I’d love to interview you for your insights. Share with my guild and post online. Please let me know.