Edit: This is not intended as a post that’s one of the “classic will fail if they don’t do x thing” type of post. It’s just a suggestion post in which I think it could help the experience even moreso.
Alright, so for those who don’t know (which you probably all do), the server names are not going to be the same as they were back then. Why is this a problem? Well, it loses your Nexus point to connect with friends/foes from your original playthrough.
Is it 100% going to be the same community? No, of course not… but I feel like getting rid of the server names gets rid of that possibility to meet up with old friends, rather than just make new ones. This may seem like a trivial thing, but in the end I feel like it’s a big big deal, because so much of WoW is about the friendships that will be made / have been made, and I think running into those former people that you used to play with / against would make a HUGE impact, even if you only ran into one of them.
So what do I suggest they do to solve the issue of people getting mixed up with live servers?
Lich King (Arthas)
Tomb (Sargeras)
The Inn (Moonglade)
PvP Central (Tichondrius)
etc.
I feel like this would solve the problem of confusing people with the live servers, but at the same time give a connecting point to old players just coming back who might want to meet up with former guildies / server mates. Without something like this applied, people are just going to filter into random locations, whereas if they added this, I feel like some of those old communities might reconnect.
This is one of people’s biggest critiques I’ve seen about classic WoW, is that a lot of what made the experience so good was the people you played with… And they’re actually 100% right… and that’s why this is so important to have addressed.
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I am just flagging this junk for Trolling. I’ve finally had enough.
The game is going to be fine.
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Just flaming gnomes and goblins everywhere!
I’m not saying it won’t be fine, I’m saying that it would add to the community if they were able to pull in history from the old server communities.
And this is my first or second post here, is this a topic that is brought up frequently or something?
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https:/ /www .vanillafriends.com/
But this is purely people actively looking for specific people they recognize.
As far as I know, there will be far less realms now than there were in 2004. There won’t be a one-to-one relation.
Just make a guild “I played on [name of realm]” and wait for old friends to find you.
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Holy crap Thank you so much Fox. Nostalgia hits hard right now /cry
To regards of the post. It’s not like it’s a bad idea and it does add something. People are just annoyed of topics like these because there’s been so much conspiracy and general complaining on the forums.
But things like this probably isn’t going to change, use the site, if you remember old names add them as a friend and see if that char ever logs on. And make new friends!
I wasn’t making this post as a “Classic is going to fail unless they do x” type post… It was more of a “Hey, this would help classic be even better” post. I’m still excited for classic regardless. Bit disappointed that a post legitimately looking to help improve the experience even more is being viewed as a troll post.
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Easy to jump on the toxic train too I guess. Makes me kinda glad I’ve bailed out of the WoW community for the most part. Was just trying to help.
“You have an opinion?! OBVIOUS TROLL!”.
Yeah agree’d. Fox, your suggestion has no downside and only a positive even if it’s small. There’s no reason to get hate on it. But posts like these are going to be frustrating to read from others’ perspective until Classic actually launches. Then we can all be merry and just play the game ![:smiley:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/smiley.png?v=6" ":smiley:")
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One of the issues with using the old names.
You and all those old friends you are hoping to reconnect with will probably not be getting those original names.
That person with the name you recognize could end up being spammed and repeatedly “are you so and so from vanilla?”
Those reconnect websites are more effective.
Everyone would still have to use the same name they had back then.
What if they had a few toons during vanilla? Or if they’ve made a more permanent name for themselves with characters from TBC onward?
I plan on playing with some of the same friends from Vanilla, and they don’t even know which faction they want to play so there’s another degree of separation from 2004.
A downside (or at least a concern) Blizzard might be trying to avoid are realms which became inflated in population because of a reputation that realm had for ‘world-first progression’ or ‘pvp’ or ‘X faction being more dominant so go here if you want to smash OWPvP’. I think a clean slate in that regard might give all realms a better chance at healthy player distribution (hopefully streamers won’t have too large of an impact here as well)
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Come on man. Use your head.
How many realms were there at peak?
How many realms will there be when we are allowed to pick one and create our 3 characters?
No one should need to explain this to you, it is a many to one relationship. Common sense. There is no way everyone can have their past realm. Even if the old names were used, there will be far too few.
Have they actually said how many realms there will be? Might have missed a post in that regard. Would have much preferred you starting with this post rather than a flaming post.
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Feel free to make a translation matrix, but there will not be 89 servers at launch, and they won’t be adding the same number of servers as the game progresses. By making those names new, it specifically disconnects people from a given server so that the communities have the same fresh feel instead of transplanting a given community over, and having people exclude anyone who wasn’t part of “that old server”.
Vanilla did not have preconfigured cultures from another server, even if some EQ groups did come to specific servers etc, and Classic is recreating that by not using the same names as Vanilla.
Also, it makes the Realm Forums list easier.
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It will be a “lean number of servers” at launch, with them expanding as they see necessary. Almost guaranteed not to be 89 of them.
Their stress test is specifically capped by them, so its not really showing interest.
The Opt In flag, and the Name Reservation on August 13 will give a far more relevant interest level.
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And I would prefer that you think for a bit before you make a silly post.
Well that’s the idea behind layering.
The hope is that Blizzard will be able to virtually scale a realm’s capacity up/down dynamically during launch to accommodate ‘the surge’ without having to compromise long-term population health that is associated with adding more servers.
So far, layering does not seem to alleviate server queues/stability and still appears to have the downside of players phasing in/out all over the place. I’ll give Blizzard the benefit that this is all done as testing so far but I’m still not sold on this ‘solution’ working as perfectly as Blizzard would have us believe