I know you guys perhaps don’t understand what it means. Try imagining this :
Imagine that on retail, your country has 37 open servers, 8 of them being at high pop, 5 being low pop, the rest being medium.
Now, imagine that for Classic, there won’t be A SINGLE server for people speaking your language to regroup and create a community.
Imagine that in the US. Imagine that there are only spanish or russian servers and although you make a good percent of the player base, you’ll have the same community experience as a Private Server from a foreign language. You’ll meet people insulting you because your name isn’t spanish or russian enough.
How the hell will this experience be authentic ? They said they wanted to create a “Blizzard Quality” experience of Vanilla, but I just feel we’re being cooked some crappy meal with cheap, rotten meat for the sake of cutting costs.
I strongly believe this will be a self fulfilling prophecy : fearing that the community won’t be large enough, they chose the cheapest way for the EU servers by regrouping them in international servers, thus driving away people who do not want that kind of private server experience.
I mean, even Guild Wars 2 has localized realms. Since when is this acceptable in a MMO ? Every single MMO I played since 2005 had localized servers for at least german, french and spanish players. What does that mean ?
https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-classic-european-realms-structure/56694