Removal of PvE Realms

EDIT TO THE TOP OF THE POST SO YOU STOP THINKING I WANT THIS IMPLEMENTED. PLEASE READ ENTIRE POST THANKS.
And this is a hindsight question too, obviously.

Census addons had total Horde Alliance Ratio at 50/50 practically. Removing PvP realms would tank any sort of WPvP. But, removing PvE servers just lifts the protection you get in the open world (and it wouldn’t FORCE PvP, just enables).

Would removing PvE servers help balance servers, or would we just see the same imbalance issues we have now?

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I don’t really get playing on a pve server the fighting from time to time is what really put the war in World of Warcraft… you’re just removing a key essence of the game on pve

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PvE servers just give people “Plot Armor”, as they can’t die or be attacked (by players) on their journeys.

Plus, I PvE on PvP realms all the time. And I’ll even /wave at Alliance in open world and continue my PvE w/o PvP.

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I theorize it would cause a ton of people to quit their subs and go back to knitting full time.

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It would be as if PvE servers weren’t an option.

This would NOT fix server balances. All you would accomplish is making a great many players just quit out right.

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Nope

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It’s almost like different people like different things or something.

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If at the start of Classic, they announced only PvP servers you wouldn’t have played then? Is that what you’re saying?

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PvP still happens on Normal servers. Ganking does not.

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No. Let the carebears have their servers.

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PvP servers are a bit overrated imo… and yes I play on one.

I can’t tell you how many times I could have should have been ganked and wasn’t… most recently around 38 I had ran thru Desolace on the way to Feralas for the fp. Aggroed some 47 bears on the road and this ?? shaman rides by and dismounts…

… and killed the bears.

Thanks bro!

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Thats the main point. People aren’t forced into ganking or killing others, it just makes it more of a World of WARcraft to me, having the option to be more ruthless.

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If I had seen that there would be no Edit: PVE PVP servers I would never had re-upped my sub. The only reason I re-upped in the first place was that I saw my husband playing and thought hey maybe I’d like to go on that nostalgia trip, too.

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This is true. We had a horde raid on Darkshore a few nights ago.

Edit: And just to be clear. That’s a normal and expected type of event on a PVE server.

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PvP is huge, especially in Classic. I’m a big PvE person tbh, but removing PvE realms wouldn’t affect my personal goals in Classic anyways.

Leave PvE realms alone. Some people enjoy them, and others (like myself) prefer PvP realms. It matters not what type of server someone rolls on.

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So almost all PvP realms are Horde heavy, almost all PvE realms are Alliance heavy. The point is not which people prefer, but if you were to only have one option would that fix imbalances? Would we see more PvP servers favorable to Alliance? Would more people roll Horde?

Nty, I enjoy playing an alliance character and not getting ganked 5000000000000000 times trying to quest.

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Both of my accounts would be canceled immediately. There wouldn’t even be a second thought.

I don’t PvP for many reasons, a few being

A) I don’t enjoy it.
B) I have panic attacks
C) I like to farm in peace
D) I like to explore, and just hang out in certain areas to enjoy them (Moonglade, Wailing Caverns and Shadowfang Keep and Pyrewood Village are just a few)

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