New Realms Coming for WoW Classic

[Bopha-magtheridon]

Who gives a s h I t what the server name is? Are you people serious right now ?

[Gnomerang-blackrock (Gnomerang)]

you think you think but you think.

[Johnnie-daggerspine]

you mean daoc? not wow?

[Fitzmartin-aggramar]

The existing PvP realms all now have either a Full or High population tag.

So do the existing PvE realms. Can we get some more of them please? I think you may be underestimating the number of players that are only coming back once they can actually play (not paying 2 extra weeks just to reserve a name). It would not surprise me to see the number of players double on launch.

[Celessi-turalyon]

Exactly this. I think the player pop and Blizz are underestimating the sleeping giant they just woke up. Predicting 80% to fade away? No chance it’s close to that number.

From what I have seen on retail is pretty bland, rinse and repeat (I haven’t played end game, so I’m biased towards the leveling process). It’s not rewarding nor do the communities come close to what was even generated on the stress test servers… in 4 days.

What happens in a few months from now if classic is flourishing and the retail expansion is a flop?

Classic is a novelty. Some people want to play it permanently, but most don’t. Most are probably going to quit early, especially when they realize the things they hate about BfA were systems in place since classic. Rinse and repeat is classic. Literally. Go kill 20 mobs, collect 10 furs, and loot this thing, then come back and turn them in. Get to 60, and farm 4 dungeons over and over to prep to farm the same raid over and over. Or you can PvP over and over to grind your rank high enough to buy gear. If retail is too bland, Classic is going to be too.

And the community is still there. It’s just not in trade channel anymore.

It’s not going to be this massively successful game like it was in 2004. And it’s not going to kill retail, and it’s not going to pass it in success.

Blizzard isn’t stupid. They know their players. They have more data than your niche pserver crowd. Hate to break it to you, but a lot of those players were there because vanilla wow is the best you’re going to find for a free MMORPG.

[Zngetsu-queldorei]

I never understood picking a server based on name. A server is a server is it not?

[Ginsophd-tichondrius]

To be fair we dont know until we see the numbers a few months from now

[Lunavale-bleeding-hollow (Lunavale)]

I never understood picking a server based on name. A server is a server is it not?

If you are someone that doesn’t keep up with all the news of Herod being a super server and other servers having streamer and south america designations, etc, and you come into classic and try to choose a server you have nothing to go on except server type, population, and name. Mind you, the goal here is to get people off of Herod and onto other servers.

Also, it’s easy to underestimate how superficial humans are in general. People do look for their server to have a classy name (not to mention one they can pronounce, see: Blaumeux). There isn’t much point in denying this fact.

[Mattoc-tichondrius (Mattoc)]

It’s not a surprise that people don’t know who Blaumeux is, since they never saw Naxx until WOTLK

[Vallahad-emerald-dream]

More name reserves please thank you.

[Accél-tichondrius]

vanilla is the best you’re going to find for a paid MMO as well my dude. BFA is awful and it’s always funny to see people making the same bad arguments still

[Celessi-turalyon]

BFA is awful

[Ayashii-malganis (Ayashii)]

What kind of drugs are you on? I’d like some. There are literally no systems in place in retail that have existed for more than a couple expansions. The game is a completely different game than it was even three years ago.

[Celessi-turalyon]

Have you actually ever played the game at max level? Seriously? At all? What do you HONESTLY think is so profoundly different about what you do in the game at 60 compared to 120?

You’re going to grind rep, grind gear, or grind PvP. The game hasn’t fundamentally changed, you’re in for a rough surprise in a week.

[Shadows-emerald-dream (Shadows)]

The only medium servers left are RP.

[Rezzin-sargeras]

should have started with more, tons of people just get locked to a realm by their guild

[Ayashii-malganis (Ayashii)]

lets start with the fact that everything is instant gratification now, nothing takes any effort or time. I could go further but I think you probably are so used to getting things handed to you it would be a waste of both of our times.

[Peyrony-tichondrius]

I love reading all of the speculation you know-it-alls are enlightening us with

[Vallahad-emerald-dream]

Not shocked there. The RP-PvP servers use to be on EST now its PST that will make up for a ton of people. I do believe they will hit high if not full when it goes live though. Classic is going to be nuts for the next little bit.

[Celessi-turalyon]

No. Nowhere near “so used to getting things handed to me.” But I also don’t equate mindlessly killing the same boss for the 20th time in a row profoundly challenging. It’s not hard to gear, it’s not hard to raid. Time does not mean difficulty. The game is designed to be slow, because MMORPGs just lacked content back then. They weren’t slow to be challenging, they were slow so that you didn’t run out of stuff to do.