A lot of the community that fought to bring it into existence were previously players from Retail who played on RP-PVP servers which were CST and located out of the Chicago data center.
The decision to relocate to PST and the Los Angeles data center (assumptive, but likely accurate) had undoubtedly forced a group of those players to reconsider. As to how large that group is, it’s hard to say.
But the low population designation when Herod accelerated quickly to High population suggests the amount of those players to be significant.
Having 6 total RP-PVP servers on retail, with at least one of them reaching the Medium to High population designation condense into one, single low population server would be concerning to me, if I wasn’t for sure in that aforementioned group.
As long as we’re being logical, it’s only fair to suggest that it’s possible that some of the original RP-PVP players simply lost interest. But I find that difficult to believe.
No . no you are not!! I did a little happy dance when I read “postmortem” knowing that MOST don’t know what you are referring too!!
Would be cool to get a behind the scenes video of the DevOps guys at some point going over this stuff.
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Yes i did cant wait to actually see you all ingame.
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Thats true tried to roll on Grob any my toons were created on Myzreal or whatever its called lol
Unless you’re horde, then you die D;
I am not. I am playing with my guild AIE on Pagle. However, I have always preferred RP-PVE realms.
I am glad we got an RP-PVP server but I do have concerns that the signal to noise ration might have been over the top. However, it’s the same concern I have over the number of PVP realms to PVE realms which don’t line up with historical facts.
I do hope you get more people to join you. I do not want to see the battle fought and lost in vein do to the community not supporting it or worst, being vaporware.
It’s gonna be jam packed…think all of Emerald Dream in it’s heyday plus some.
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Either way, Grobbulus has a strong community. If you look at the server subreddits, Grob has 1.1k subs compared to the rest (which range from 50 - 770 [Herod]).
I have a feeling Grobb will be resilient and big.
I do plan on playing on Grob, but my main toons are going to be in the guild I’m in on Herod, so I used my three names on that server. I’m sure there are others in a similar situation which is probably why it was low for the name-grab.
The login kept dumping me to Mankirk after a long timeout, a good 45 minutes of that. I wonder how many people didn’t notice it when they got in the game.
Grobbulus will be a decent population. Lots of folks want Classic RP-PVP experience.
Theres going to be a lot of players from all the RP realms and players who quit WoW rolling on Grobbulus.
Oh it’s going to be full you better believe folks Emerald Dream and Moon Guard alone will boost this server up on top of the new folks that join from other RP servers or people willing to try Rp-Pvp. I just hope we get loyal folks to join Classic and want to aim for 60 for pvp and pve as well! Ps: For The Alliance!
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I couldn’t even log into grob for the first hour. Both rp realms were just disconnecting me, I was able to get onto mankrik and other realms with no issue. Grob will have a healthy population for sure.
Grobb might be low.
But we still got flow.
We gunna run this show.
Might take time to show.
But with a little blow.
This fire gonna grow.
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Oh, good, I’m not the only one?
I got my names on Grob last night and this morning they were moved and reserved on Myzrael. Blizzard really messed this up.
Hopefully just low enough that we don’t need any layers.
I am also hopeful that it’s because all the PvP Bros are actually rolling on PvP servers so we can have real RP-PvP on our realm.
No, the server time zone only affects when the sun rises and sets in game. People will be online at all hours of the day. It’s the only realm of it’s kind.
Someone made a thread warning east coast players that prime time will go with the server time. I can’t stay up that late to raid.