One of the early tragedies of Classic was the lack of PvP servers to satisfy demand, leading to queues that eventually brought a lot of people to roll on the medium population RP-PvP server, Grobbulus. Blizzard responded by creating another RP-PvP server, Deviant Delight, when in fact the demand was for PvP, not necessarily RP-PvP. Ever since, there have been two RP-PvP servers when there really is only enough RP-interested population for one.
With the move into TBC, I’m hoping that the two RP-PvP servers can be put together again (along with other servers of diminishing population). There is only one RP-PvE server so this would make sense. The same should be expected of servers with diminished populations or faction imbalance; there is now an opportunity to right the problems that came with Classic’s initial server launch.
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I remember when DD toons would come to the Grob forums constantly trying to steal people to populate their realm. Everyone knew DD would end up a dead realm and look what happened. I doubt blizzard will merge these servers because one is for the West Coast (Grob) and the other is for the East Coast (DD). People should just reroll while there’s still time to prep for TBC.
What would happen to my characters? I have horde on one and alliance on the other, same account
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I play on both servers. While DD is low pop, it’s not a dead server. I still do levelling dungeons with people. I would expect it to be decent for TBC with returning players.
If DD or another server doesn’t have a viable population, I would expect them to “connect” servers. Blizzard will probably want to see how the populations shake out after TBC launch before doing anything.
As said here what happens to us that have character on different factions? I really don’t think it’ll happen. But if it does they need to answer that question first.
At least keep 1 east and 1 west
Last i recall DD hated grob folk. Also Grob will prob up against BC Launch and i’m sure DD will as well. So i would wait until BC launch and or a bit after before this.
When the server first opened up a lot of people fled Grobb or transferred over and held low opinions of the server. The cultures now are very different, merging them would probably have a lot of pushback from both communities.
I don’t think people from the servers hate each other, but they are very different
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Please leave DD alone, I like it just the way it is.
Retail taught us that Blizzard won’t shut down servers. Classic will be on Connected Realms. Expect it and then you won’t be shocked and appalled.
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If Blizzard does anything, it would connect the realms (which they are highly likely to do for Classic Era). In that context, you can have Alliance on Grob and Horde on DD and it would act like a merged community (like they have done in retail).
I am not opposed to this at all but let’s see how the DD pop shakes out for TBC.
It’s a shame blizz botched the launch of DD. It would be nice if the server was medium. I don’t mind the current pop too much, but it does discourage new folks from joining which I don’t think is healthy.
It was medium population for most of classic. Interest has waned now because we’re in a lull between Naxx and tbc, but I fully expect it to be medium population again when tbc launches.
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Not sure your narrative is accurate. Pretty sure most people regretted rolling on pvp realms and quit the game.
Fair points. I didn’t even think about people with Horde on one realm and Alliance on the other. It’s just unfortunate because roleplay could be stronger if everyone were together. Retail has a bunch of RP and RP-PvP servers that are that in name only. It took me a while to find where the roleplay actually was.
It’s a RP-PVP Get your facts right before you try trolling.
I miss deviate delight, and all my friends in the winterfarge clan <3
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You coming back for TBC? I went with Blackmanez and Glummie to Genesis but I think most of the people who are left ended up in VoE.
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I might come back, DD is my classic h0me