Well now I have a bunch less questions to ask in the ama.
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Yall handled this launch poorly, and now guilds are stuck in poor places with half the members wanting to move, and half not. Releasing the extra server late instead of at the start is the main culprit, along with the fact that you didnt announce Stalaggâs opening ahead of time. Like an above poster said, many (not me cause idgaf about name) who would move to stalagg dont want to because by the time they heard about it, their names were gone. And that just leads back to the overall mishandling of this launch. By the greedy money-grab tactic of pre-name reservations, combined with low server counts, you help ensure this would happen. If this had been a normal chaotic launch, with no name reservations, people and guilds would just be trying to create on the day of, and when they run into a 10k queue, they would just go to another server without a queue. When will your company learn that greedy tactics usually end up hurting you in the long run?
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low-medium is nice for a launch because people are leveling and its fresh. A year afterâŚit will suck big poo due to raid logging and people quiting.
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If you want to open more servers before launch, youâll have to give players a 4th name reservation slot. Many of us have our names reserved already and arenât willing to delete them for just a chance to get the name on the new server.
I deleted my 3rd favorite one to make one on Stal, but others are probably not willing to chance it.
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Sorry not giving Blizz a free pass on this situation. They dangled name reservation as a way to get people to sub 2 weeks early, didnât release enough realms, and now ask people to switch, effectively forfeiting the names they subbed early to get.
Dont blame people for being stubborn on Herod. Money was put on the table.
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population being way higher than original vanilla servers for anything medium+ is going to be far more of a detriment than queues. they need more than 1 or else stalagg is just going to be similarly bloated once people start inevitably switching to other realms
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The entire point of Classic is going back to 2006.
WoW already joined 2019. They called it Battle for Azeroth.
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It would seem that someone is going to blink on Heroid either sooner or later and flee the server to go to another one. That being said even then it sounds like there will be more pvp servers coming.
What time zone will it be?
But they already brought up that their server capacity ALREADY based upon modern estimates, not 2006. Unless I read the blue post wrong.
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Yup. Just like some here wanted all along. They will be on their alts complaining about ques now. Lol
Iâm just glad itâs before phase 2 or I was rioting.
Thanks Kavi!
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#GrobonmyKnob
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have you not realized yet that WoW is NOT âevery other MMO out thereâ?
there are reasons WoW stands above the rest.
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All Iâm getting from this is Herod is fat.
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they already made the server cap MANY times what it was in vanilla, so that argument holds no ground.
Fact is, they could do single mega servers just like every other game in 2019 if they wanted to invest in that.
If you wanted people to roll on Stalagg, why would you only give a couple of hours notice before opening up name reservation? Seems like it would have made more sense to have even given a single dayâs notice.
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Not in this regard it doesnât. This is one area wow is 10 years behind the competition and if you havenât been paying attention, the competition has caught up #'s wise.
If they want players to switch realms, they should open up a new realm that only accepts transfers from Herod. That way, players can keep their beloved names.
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They brought it up to handle what they think will be a population spike followed by a drop-off so that after the dust settles weâre hopefully at roughly healthy Vanilla era population levels.
Kaivaxâs post here notes that they could easily raise it even higher, but that would cause problems at phase 2.
Thatâs because they donât intend to keep the higher population cap. Itâs purely a launch thing to handle the surge.
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