Please classic team i know you said one server per region hopefully OCE is included under that statement.
We don’t need a HC realm or even a pve realm , just one fresh PVP realm (which historically has held the best retention anyway).
There are many players i have spoken to myself included that would love to play fresh but don’t want to be forced to play on a US server on 200+ latency , especially when going into TBC with arena and the faster combat in general.
The whole stigma of a server being dead with 3k+ active players is a utter joke id much rather play the game as intended in 2004 than be playing on a 50k mega server where the community aspect of the game is basically watered down to 0. (I’m sure many classic players would share this sentiment).
If server costs are a issue for whatever reason remove one of the 5+ oce servers across sod/era/cata that are unoccupied.
Writing this post for the silent majority of aussies/ nz players that just want to play classic fresh agane without lag upvote /share post!
Thanks! see you fellow Aussies / NZ players at 9am/7am respectively!
100% this! Please Blizzard give us OCE servers. 2019 Classic, Arugal was full all the way through. Shadowstrike was full on launch until SOD faded out. As stated in the post it is not just Australians that need it, so many others too. I believe we will easily fill a server for quite some time to come. With going into TBC there will be even more reason for old and new players to come play.
What % of the players right now on wow classic are from OCE?
What % of the players who’re on CATA / future MoP will drop for “Fresh” that’s not even really Vanilla because of so many changes that kill its authenticity?
What % of the players who do come back will play past BWL?
This is my point.
Near every FRESH server dies after BWL is complete and AQ 40 opens… right there; this is always what happens.
Shouldn’t be such of a task to give a fresh server to OCE if they are starting fresh servers. We had a health population, it was really enjoyable.
It doesn’t take away anything from players not wanting to play on an OCE server. They will be able to play on NA or EU servers with giant populations, while others can play OCE and all can be happy. It’s people’s own gamble they are willing to play on OCE if it does drop in numbers after a while.
Anyways, having an OCE server for the fresh classic restart is only a good thing, and I will be pretty upset if they don’t have one
The changes that ‘kill the authenticity’ has been overwhelmingly positive, the players asked for them. I would argue that many more players will return because of these changes compared to if it was just ‘No Changes’ Andys returning. 2019 Arugal was well populated all through Fresh/Tbc/Wotlk. SOD faded out as a whole, wasn’t just OCE. Even that was full population on OCE until it did.
So currently right now according to ironforge pro which only shows people who have logged a raid or have participated in rated pvp. we have 4500+ active players from last week.
That is more than enough for a healthy server. and cata is pretty down low atm
Anyway if you like playing on high latency with F boy steamers go ahead and play on US server no one will force you to play on oce
FYI classic 2019 aragul never droped below 5k+ players active per week from archives
OCe was reporting their pvp was really weekend only for action. WHile the US servers we had this 24/7. Even me. I play from Japan but in West coast servers.
even at 2100 my time on a Tuesday I was getting hits. as west coast I was seeing:
all the oce and others from this area who jsut went west side US
US nightowls
US people who work 2nd or 3rd shift getting off work.
and if I had days off and I play 1100 japan time…its like the US primetime. So really jumping.
1000 in the OCE/Japan region can be slow as hell. Many are at work lol.