Official Classic vs Private Servers

I’ve been checking out the newest private server. (You know what I’m talking about, I won’t say the name) And I don’t get why people don’t just play the official servers? The latency is pretty bad, and when it’s china primetime the latency really shows it’s effect.

Question: Why don’t people just populate the official servers, and prefer the “fresh” private servers? It seems like it would be better for everyone. The difference that I’ve seen is that there’s more bugs with private servers, and a ton of lag.

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One is free, the other feels like it should be free!

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So that’s pretty much the only reason?

Because the “official” servers are already fully progressed. They’re playing the pserver because it isn’t and is progressive.

Ppl gonna play a pserver if blizz won’t give a fresh

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I don’t really understand this concept. Could you please explain it a bit more? From the way you explained it, it feels like people want the grind, more than the game? Why would people not want to play on a progressed server?

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Apparently the vast majority of players care about progression but only if it’s spoon fed by Blizzard. Never would have guessed, myself.

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I think it’s about being in the rush if other players. Competing on an even field. So starting fresh on old vanilla would allow other players to already have the gear they’re after, an unfair competition. And fresh progression provides like three or five tiers of fair fields.

At least that’s my armchair psychoanalysis.

Layering, boosting, botted economy, cultural differences

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Pservers progress patch by patch.

Blizzard classic is 3+ years into p6.

People want to rank, they want world pvp, and want to progress the raids from the beginning on equal footing.

Yes, people like the grind

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If you could combine ppl who like era and ppl who like fresh, you would have a nicely populated game.

Fresh alone has decent population if there’s good changes, unfortunately som had more bad than good changes so phase 1 was the only populated time during its lifetime.

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Era players seem to pay the bills.

For a lot of people, the whole appeal is trying to be the first to 60, to clear content, or to form a good guild. Or even if its not the whole appeal, it plays a big enough part that they will prefer to play on a server that allows for that.

i thought blizzards “phases” where the laziest and trashiest way to have treated vanilla

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I honestly think people don’t populate the classic era servers, because they think they will be behind and don’t know if old raids are still being ran. I would love more people on Era because i love to pvp all the time i miss instant ques for AV wsg and AB no matter what time it is. That is the biggest reason i don’t play more.

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I played both on Nostalarius and Lighbringer (both private servers) before classic came out. The one thing they were way better than Blizzard on was insta perma banning gold buyers and sellers Plenty of pugs but no gdkps on them If they can do it, why can’t Blizzard?

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Yeah i can agree with you on that. Why not hire some of those guys that host the private server to help them focus on Vanilla server for them?

Bots have to pay for subs to be active

This is why they don’t ban them but pretend that they do.

It’s all money

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If the Missus wont put out, the man will always look for something that will give him what he needs…

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This is both true whilst at the same time not.

A lot of the bot’s puppeteers are of course gold sellers, which, as we know are all about maximizing profits and thus spending 15$ to bot farm for a month X however many bots they are running is not cost effective, not at all more so with the price of gold being at an all time low.

The bots blizzard bans (In waves) are the ones playing for free utilizing counterfeit authentication login codes generated by a Keygen made by freelance blackhats. (Allegedly, possibly, did not hear it from me, not that they will ever admit to this, ever)

Blizzard believes bots help stimulate the economy, as, their internal analytics would have them believe their average player, is far to busy, not interested in (Think casual) farming raw materials. They think along the lines of “The AH needs to be well stocked for the economy to be healthy and bots will achieve this”