Why are people excited for the stress test?

[Miraari-sisters-of-elune]

Read the fine print. I missed it on the first go too, but it says after the test you can play until thursday.

[Cerrberus-area-52 (Cerrberus)]

I’m already in the beta and still super hyped about the stress test. It’s a big community event, there will be a bunch of crazy nonsense going on, competitions to see who can manage to finish quests first amidst the chaos, duels all over the place, what’s not to look forward to?

And on top of it all, you’re helping blizzard gather precious data to make the launch a smooth and enjoyable experience.

[Eaglesgift-ravenholdt (Eaglesgift)]

Some of us have been waiting 10+ years for Blizzard to bring back Vanilla. Participating in the beta or the stress test is a chance for us peons to feel like we are contributing in some small way to the effort.

[Pez-azuremyst]

Do you have a reference or citation for that “3.5 million” number? So far I haven’t seen much about what they’re expecting in terms of people on day one. 3.5 million would be quite an insane number. That’s about 43% of the total number of vanilla players before BC launched.

Considering that there have been WELL over 100 million account created over time… for 3.5 million to show up would only take less than 3% of those people to come back.

Keep in mind only about 300,000 players actually played at launch of Vanilla… that’s all the actual discs pressed and sold. The remaining 7 million came afterward… so there is 7 million who might want to play simply because they missed it the first time.

Then there are the X million BfA players (we’ll be nice and call it 3 million)that already have an active account. Surely we’ll see a million of those try it out?

It’s gonna be BIG.

[Atalanta-trollbane (Atalanta)]

So no, there’s no citation or known expected numbers.

Edit:

To clarify, I’m not trying to say it won’t be popular. I’m not even necessarily saying that it can’t reach 3.5 million.

What my point was, and remains, was that spilling off numbers without any actual facts is at best irresponsible.

[Diavalo-caelestrasz (Diavalo)]

Literally literal overuse of the word ‘literal’ in replies, when in fact most comments are figurative in this ‘literal’ thread.

Do you Millennials not know any other word?!

[Atalanta-trollbane (Atalanta)]

You do know that unless you’re younger than ~23, or older than ~38, you’re a millenial… right?

[Diavalo-caelestrasz (Diavalo)]

You do know that unless you’re younger than ~23, or older than ~38, you’re a millenial… right?

No, I live in a vacuum.

[Zultima-emerald-dream]

Spoken like a true Zoomer

[Atalanta-trollbane (Atalanta)]

Hey, to be fair, some people think “Millenial” means “Born in 2000s”.

Spoken like a true Zoomer

I have no idea what this means, honestly. I don’t think about people’s age.

[Pez-azuremyst]

You do know that unless you’re younger than ~23, or older than ~38, you’re a millenial… right?

No, I live in a vacuum.

I tried that once… but am allergic to dust.

[Zultima-emerald-dream]

You do know that unless you’re younger than ~23, or older than ~38, you’re a millenial… right?

I have no idea what this means, honestly. I don’t think about people’s age.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Atalanta-trollbane (Atalanta)]

I don’t know what “zoomer” means. Does that clarify my statement? I’m not trying to be difficult, I genuinely don’t understand what you’re trying to say.

My awareness of what millenial means is largely down to being told I’m a millenial my entire life, even though I’m now well into adulthood and still keep hearing it.

“You’re just a millenial.” Ma’am, I’m 30 years old. “Yeah but you don’t get it.” All right, what do I not get? “If you have to ask there’s no hope for explaining it.”

Hence why I’m aware of what millenial means. I don’t delineate people’s value or opinion based on their age, though. Only how they treat me or react to thing. If you act like millenial is a catch all for “stupid” or “bad” then I’m not likely to engage with you.

For the same reasons I’m not liable to engage with people in my age group who think that “baby boomers” are all horrible people who ruined the world. It easy to make sweeping judgments, but it’s not accurate.

[Pez-azuremyst]

So no, there’s no citation or known expected numbers.

Edit:

To clarify, I’m not trying to say it won’t be popular. I’m not even necessarily saying that it can’t reach 3.5 million.

What my point was, and remains, was that spilling off numbers without any actual facts is at best irresponsible.

Chalk it up to Pent up Enthusiasm and Exuberance. The PEE factor.

[Felicious-duskwood (Felicious)]

Why am I excited about being invited to the Stress test?

Simple, it gives me a short preview of what once was. I’ve been cautiously hyped for Classic for a while now, considering that I only started playing in Cata, so I never played in the old world.

That and…

in making sure that Classic might have a smooth(ish) launch come Aug 27th.

[Beáker-earthen-ring]

For me, at least, it isn’t just about being able to play vanilla WoW again a bit early. It is about contributing, in some small way, to making this game I love as good as it can possibly be. If Blizzard decides, eventually, that they need me as a tester, I will take to the job with gusto, but, for now, they just need warm bodies, and I am happy to help.

[Anzsu-drenden]

You misunderstood the post then. 4-6pm is a SPECIFIC time period that they will be monitoring the servers. That’s it. Beyond that, the server will stay up until Thursday ~6pm. It’s a full 24 hours. Not much. But it’s something.

which, ironically, real beta testers can log into the stress test during testing. but not visa versa. so a beta invite is being treated as -full access-.

[Clasico-arthas]

If I got into stress test I would test different race class gender combos to see which animations I like best and also tune out the looks. Sure it’s not all that exciting. Even full beta ain’t that exciting. The truly exciting fruit hangs on the tree and drops in 96 days.

[Gothh-proudmoore (Gothh)]

I’m hyped for lvl 1 raid on Hogger I’m gonna try to organize when I can get on

[Liljohnnie-stormrage]

I want to see what changes they are making to Classic from Vanilla.