I can’t fault people for not subscribing prior to launch; it’s unreasonable to expect someone to subscribe to a game when half of the subscription will have elapsed by the time the game becomes playable. The only reason I subscribed early was because the final stress test was open to all subscribers, so that made it worth it for me. Although I like the idea of early character creation, it’s problematic for guilds if servers get locked; if it’s just a small group of friends it’s not that big of a deal. I understand both sides of the server-locking discussion, and the problem only exists because of early character creation for subscribers.
Half of the characters on Herod are alts. Remember? we get 3.
squad sqaud s***
That would separate guilds, and part of the intention of early character creation was to allow guilds to plan ahead of time.
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Because a lot of players, myself included, do not like the idea of connecting or merging servers. If you merge servers some people will lose their name, and if you connect servers then everyone has a server name as a suffix to their name, giving a sense of split community and removing the feel of a single community that many people who have wanted legacy realms miss, and is the primary reason they want them. Connecting realms may work for Retail (I haven’t played much since right before Cataclysm, so I have no opinion on realm connections in Retail), but Retail and Classic are very different games.
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Blizzard, character name collision is such a dumb problem to have in 2019… If only we had some kind of tag we could officially move over to as the principal means to talk to each other. That way character names could just be cosmetics… We could call those Battle Tags or something. Ah, if only…
and then the Guild for example will be full of characters named Reeven. people wouldn’t be able to refer to your character name they would have to use your Battle tag “0Pskittle98” should work great in an mmoRPG in which case, what would be the point of naming a character other than help you keep track of them. could use “character 1, 2, 3 etc”
but then the character looses that personal identity and the player has a harder time getting attached to them and thus one of the Addictive ingredients gets left out of the loop.
also since B tag would be the now primary set of communication, everyone you run into will be able to whisper you cross faction cross server, cross game.
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You may be right, but… wait, logical thinking doesn’t belong here; away with you! 
This proves how many people HATE streamers, since they announced they were leaving Herod alone to give people more of the classic experience without them present.
If you don’t plan to play on a realm why do you have a name reserved there?
Exactly. I plan to play on two normal realms, one for Horde and one for Alliance; I haven’t reserved names anywhere I don’t plan to play.
That’s a great idea for some games, but not an RPG.
Original launch server, no doubt, but we are talking down the road… and do you think Stalaag will outnumber Herod? I doubt it
Maybe yall should’ve listened to us and done more than 11 servers to start with.
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Gonna be really interesting come launch day and the rest of the people who didn’t pay monthly fee just to save a name, start logging on. They will have the option of Full or High pop servers to pick from and all the server will be huge Que times.
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Unfortunately, they either aren’t being provided the resources to make more servers… or more realistically, they continue to underestimate the demand for wow classic.
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You think this will fix populations and queues but it wont. You need more servers blizzard its simple the demand is higher than you estimated and many of the retail kids thought. People want to play classic, not BFA.
its demand, the server resource argument is dumb. The resources are going vertical instead of horizontal. AKA layering instead of more servers. They think 10k play within few weeks 2k remain.
Maybe i’m biased as a classic fan, but i continue to think they are underestimating the demand for wow classic.
It is pulling in new players, and players who haven’t played in years.
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I know they are underestimating the amount of players just don’t know by how much. I’m part of a small group that will be playing Classic, 7-10 people. Of that grp only myself and one other reserved names, that means right there is 5 to 8 people that Blizzard doesn’t know about that is going to sub, probably on the morning of the 26th and make characters on the server I and the other selected. How many other groups of friends and guilds have this happening is a mystery, but until Blizz sees a big last minute rush of subs they are not going to change their tune. Of course if there is a huge spike of subs on the morning of the 26th and their backend servers melt trying to process the increased traffic it will really be too late by that afternoon because no one is going to want to move servers at the last minute.
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