Kind of hard to tell how much of the original team is left considering it’s all under Microsoft now. So I suspect those running things might not even be familiar with WoW at all. That recent trailer for retail was quite telling…it had no soul and felt completely out of place and explained nothing.
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well that’s not new 
Has Blizz said anything about adding this?
It does seem like an odd omission.
Especially since these servers are going to be going into TBC and will be around for awhile.
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I would imagine there’s probably not much of the OG WoW dev team at the company at all.
There’s probably 3-4 of them left and I doubt any of them are even working on WoW—let alone Classic—anymore anyway. Chances are they’re working on higher priority games since they’d be the most senior designers at the company by now.
They’ve abandoned their fans who are most dedicated and just please shareholders at this point, I guess.
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I don’t think decisions like this have so much to do with shareholders as they do with the dev team likely being full of people who think raids are the be-all end-all of everything and can’t fathom that anybody else doesn’t.
Perhaps someone should explain to the dev team that raids and RP/PVP realms are not mutually exclusive…
The obsession with only endgame is honestly baffling given how much of vanilla is about the journey and exploration–which RP encourages and has people exploring the world and being with friends for far longer than raidlogging. I don’t get this.
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This happens just as much if not more on RP realms.
Twisting Nether
Ravenholdt
Emerald Dream
Grobbulus
I’ve been on all of these RPPVP realms since Burning Crusade.
Not only were these people shoved off the server, you see it far less in Trade and General. It is WAY MORE PREVELANT on PvP servers, celebrated, and trendy to be toxic.
Every time I have taken a ‘peek’ at a PvP server, same swill.
They are not the same.
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I didn’t play on any of those servers tbh but I did play on Bloodsail at Classic launch in 2019 and it was way better in this way. There was far less off-topic spam in general chats and a lot of the time people were in character even in Trade.
Completely different experience from the Anniversary realms at present. Night and day.
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I can tell you’ve never been on an RP server
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No, it doesn’t.
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lol gonna call bs on this one, you’ve never been part of the rp community
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You know, my want for an RP server has evolved since playing the Anniversary servers. Beyond just wanting a server with more solidarity in the type of player there (i.e. roleplayers), I think people in general of that variety are… Frankly, better people, lol.
A lot of culture I’m seeing evolve on the realms is so disgustingly sad. So much “me, me me” mentality. Everything reserved, people kicking folks from dungeons for not being in the same zone at the time of invite. I think RP realms are on average much more of a casual/laid back environment with people being more willing to compromise… Or at the very least acknowledge there’s another real person on the other side of the screen, lol.
Blizzard wants to push mega servers so everyone “can do content at any point in time!” without even considering that makes the majority of people stop caring about anything remotely removed from their own personal goals because there’s just so many people that regular day to day interactions don’t matter.
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After reading this I realized Blizzard is trying to change the players to fit the game, instead of making the game what the players want.
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I think this is the worst part of the retail tbh. It allows servers to become glorified PUGs in which everyone else is an NPC there to support you—the hero, the main character.
This is entirely antithetical to the very concept of RP realms, wherein exists a sort of tacit agreement that we’re all just Don Nobody trying to make a living in a harsh world at war. We depend on one another, we help each other, we grow together—it’s almost a complete analog for the life of the server itself that either survives or dies based upon the level of immersion we’re willing to give each other.
This is what they seem to have forgotten about RP realms in general and the very ethic of an RPG that they’ve left behind in their quest for the highest parses.
I exclusively play on RP servers actually. And I see zero difference really between RPing on an RP server and RPing on one the regular classic servers.
https://i.imgur.com/TXqAqRK.png
https://i.imgur.com/F5rj5Ds.png
That…that is the difference.
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So, you either…
A.) Only roleplay with a certain set group of people, possibly out of public view and most likely not advertised
Or
B.) Don’t actually RP and just play on an RP realm. You just treat it like a regular realm and only interact with other non-RPers, so there effectively is no difference to you.
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