09/03/2018 11:19 PMPosted by Revytwohands
I say this with love, but go back to Reddit. Go back to wow servers and a hilarious discussions about what specific number of players on a private server means that it is officially dead. Try to sidestep the the inevitable fact that a dead server is just a feeling, and it is a poor masquerade for the fact that an individual person failed to find the fun in their 3,000th fresh private server restart, and are frustrated.
The very best advice I can give for a longtime private server player is, take a long break before blizzard classic and try to forget the words fresh and hype and dead. Your personal experience of fun will be all the more enhanced for it.
The blizzard classic server will not be dead, because it will not end in a Frozen end of classic state. It will go on to burning Crusade and onto wrath and onto cataclysm.
1. I am not from Reddit. I don't even like Reddit. Nice stereotype way to stereotype me into a Reddit person.
2. I am not a private server player. Nice way to stereotype me into a private server person. This is the 2nd stereotype that you got wrong about me.
3. I already played a dead server on Madoran and Blackhand. And I rerolled all 11 of my alts to higher populated servers afterwards. I followed this guide on how to choose a server on WoW.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/969727204
And I followed even more guides from Google but I didn't bookmark them. One guide said to "make a level 1 alt, run to Stormwind or Ogrimmar, look at how many people are in the cities, look at how busy trade chat is, check the auction house and see if the prices are low or high". I compared 4 servers with level 1 alts in the main city, 2 servers of my choice and 2 high populated servers (I wanted a medium populated server). And I did these things but because of CRZ, I still ended up choosing a dead server.
I made spreadsheets using Warcraft Realms, Realmpop, and WoWProgress using stats such as population, alliance to horde ratio, alliance to horde activity ratio, and WoWProgress score. And I choose servers there had a pretty equal alliance to horde ratio. But even these guides and websites didn't save me from choosing a dead server.
And I played on my 2 chosen servers for months. CRZ made me think that I had chosen good servers. But one day I learned what CRZ was. And I realized that 99% of the players I saw were from different servers, not my own server. But I continued to play on these servers. The breaking point was when a level 5 from a different server asked me for 5 or 25 silver, and I was on my level 30 with plenty of gold. And I couldn't even gift a low level player some silver. So, I then found out the limitations of playing by myself on a dead server.
My highest alt was level 42 or 45. But, I went back to Warcraft Realms, Realmpop, and WoWProgress and I redid all my homework for high population servers. My only choices were 80% alliance servers and 80% horde servers. And I lost weeks or months of progress on 11 alts all in their 30's and 40's to reroll on higher, populated servers so I could play with others ($25 character transfer times 11 alts equals $275, the price of a gaming console).
And I had a better experience finally playing with other players on the same server. And my goal is to not repeat this on WoW Classic. And still have my original 11 alts for sentimental value. I won't tell you my alts names but you could probably figure some of them out with some guesswork. I already rerolled once during Legion, don't think I won't reroll again on WoW Classic if my chosen server is dead after months, a year, 2 years, 5 years after launch. This is a MMORPG, not a single player game on the PS4 console. I want to play with others, not by myself.
But if seems that I insulted you because I asked a question on how I can avoid a dead server for a 2nd time.
TLDR: No TLDR for you because you stereotyped me into a Reddit person, told me to leave Blizzard forums, and go back to Reddit. And no TLDR for you because you stereotyped me into a private server person when all I wanted to do was avoid playing by myself on a dead server for a 2nd time. And if you won't read my response to you, then you were just trolling me from the very start. And my apologies to everybody else in this thread for feeding the troll.