Ok Blizzard, let’s chat :)! First of all, this is an amazing response. I’m very happy to see this. As someone who played in vanilla Beta so many years ago to now, mainly played on an RPPVP server, and have had a lot of time on both straight PVP and RP servers, I believe I am speaking for a massive amount of players when I say, “If I saw at least one RPPVP server on the classic WoW realm list, that is definitely what I would pick.” (Woo what a run-on sentence that was. I’m on a soap box people! Give me a break!) My vote, is just at least put in one RPPVP server at start and see how it goes. Judging by the responses it appears that it would be populated very fast. Start with what I believe was the most popular/strongest server during Classic and older expansions, Emerald Dream. It had a very strong community and I still meet tons of people today who say they miss the community that Emerald Dream had so many years ago.
Here is why its more than just a “Niche group”. First of all, I think its a larger Niche group than you would imagine. Judging by polls and responses, I would say that is accurate to say. Second, for a large majority of Roleplayers, the game is about immersion. One thing that adds a massive element of that is the possiblity of World PVP. That sense of danger when you are out in the world. Yes, on an RP server you can flag yourself, this is definitely not the same. The immersion only feels real when its not a choice.
Besides the players who are predominately roleplayers who want the element of danger for immersion, there are also a good amount of PVP players who like to roleplay in their downtime. I started as one of those players, and still very much am, but over the years I have grown a stronger love for the roleplay community and being involved in it equally as well.
The final point is that a RPPVP server is more than likely to be a haven for PVP players who do not want to have to play with all of the streamers out there now that didn’t exist in classic. No offense to streamers, I support them, but in a way they can be a bit of a plague to some players on their server. Its not the streamer, its the horde(no pun intended) of players following them around that ruin the game for some players. For this reason, I think its possible to see even more popularity for an RPPVP server, like Emerald Dream, than it even had years ago. On its own it was already a very successful server, but I imagine after some time some PVP players would find their way there as an escape and a haven.
In final… Pretty please just give us one RPPVP server at start. My vote would be to make it whatever the most popular server of the Vanilla Era was. My guess is that it was Emerald Dream, but I’m sure you have the data to lookup. I think you will be surprised and may even find yourself needing to add another in the not too distant future after launch. If you read this, thank you very much for your time and consideration!
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