At the end of the day, lots of people are going to quit and the rest are going to be in instances or PvP at level 60. That’s why you can have so many people on a server, not everyone is out in the world, many are in instances.
The population is probably going to double on launch day, and we have a server problem right now. A lot of people who paid for name reservations are gonna be upset if new servers go online after launch.
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Blizzard should have only allowed 1 name reservation pre-launch. Realms are blown up 3x times higher and Blizzard has no idea who will actually play on what realm. Besides, blizzard will open a slew of fresh realms on launch day.
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Quite the opposite.
I have seen the warnings that Blizzard puts out and its the players refusing to react. They “WANT MAOR SERVERZ!!!” pitchforks and all but the servers Blizzard is opening for them aren’t filling, so why would they open even more?
Its really just common sense at this point.
Kinda agree. Any “influx” of players are going to be the ones who really dont know if they will stay and dont care about names. The people joining on Monday when we go live are going to be the “tourists” everyone is complaining about. Most of whom will leave pre level 20 IMO.
I still believe we need more realms to even out populations to medium/high across all of them though.
I don’t know about that. I expect to see a ton of people who didn’t want to give Blizzard a dime until Classic launched. These people are not tourists.
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I’m assuming that blizzard will add more at launch. They have to.
@Crooge agreed. It will make everyone scramble and cause a quagmire to the already hot mess that it is. Launch day will be madness. People need to prepare now.
on full realms you will be unable to play until Blizzard is able to recover. The QUEUE numbers will not be displayed. You wanted Classic so be it. “You think you do but you dont!” WE were not prepared ~ Blizzard Activision and we delivered haphazardly w/ no empathy. The Emergency broadcast system in place they claim to have will fall dead on arrival (DOA)
People will clammer to make toons on realms they have no business playing. PvP on RP and PvE on RP <Bloodsail Buccaneers> and cause the realm to be instantly full and crash hard like a sinking Titanic filled with entitled gamers who will only get on there and complain and ridicule the RP’ers. Sad day indeed. Be Prepared !!! I see it now !
Agreed, for N. America another East and West Coast (maybe even a Central) server would be nice. I have no desire to sit in a queue but as it is, for PVE, there isn’t a choice (unless they’ve opened more PVE servers I haven’t heard about).
No, the tourists will be the ones playing retail now that never played Vanilla that will give Classic a chance because it doesn’t cost them anything extra. They were to young to play Vanilla, grew up hearing how good it was from elder sibling’s/parents and now older guildmates and such. They will roll up a character and then slam into the lack of QoL things that you have to grind out in Vanilla which is basically given to you in retail. The biggest one imo will be the mounts. They are used to getting mounts early and cheaply and riding everywhere. The first time they walk all the way to the eastern part of Elwynn then back again that will turn them off to it and they will quit. Lets not even talk about having to actually walk to a dungeon.
The people that are making new subs or resubbing old accounts for Classic specifically the majority already know these things. Of course some still will quit but I think you will find it will be much lower as a percentage then the younger retail players that rolled a character just to see if what they have been told for years is true.
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I’m no tourist, but I haven’t bothered to reserve names yet. But I’m subbed. Its what, 14$ a month or something?
I suspect there is a large number of non tourists still waiting in the wings. Probably the bulk of whom aren’t going to really start playing until week two or three (but many will log in to just have a peek). This is the crowd that doesn’t want to deal with the chaos, and the more patient types. Probably also less vocal on the forums, so you don’t hear much from them. But I wouldn’t be surprised to see a 25% population jump somewhere around week 2.
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We’ll see. I hope you are right.
Because if you open up a PvP West server and expect PvE EST people to switch to that it wont happen. Most of the open more servers complains are for PvE EST because there are only 2 atm and both are “full”.
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i agree we need more PVP servers
The reason players aren’t moving to the new realms is because Blizzard hasn’t shared a plan for how they would deal with low population realms in the future.
If Blizzard can’t commit to merging low population realms then players are smart to put up with some short term queues in order to avoid being put on a low pop realm.
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they already said servers transfers to be on the table
but will they be free? that i dont know
then why not list them as full? if theres a queue then the server can’t even handle a medium pop, wtf
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maximize queue to force payers to play low pop realm and then later have them pay to transfer over to a non-dead realm
classic Blizz and their money-grabbing schemes, never change.
Do you really believe that Blizzard has no way to distinguish unique accounts from character counts?
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this makes no sense. please think before you post.