That’s another thing, I haven’t even been playing my regular server characters as I decided to go fresh. Had I known earlier that we’d only get pvp I could’ve made a decision then on what I wanted to do, and worked on my other characters to prepare them. This is just so frustrating. I’ve also taken time off work for the prepatch, yet now I don’t know if I want to bother. Like wtf Blizzard?!?
Remember P2, eh?
I’m sorry for your loss.
This decision is unexpected but I’m trying to figure Blizzard’s MO. There’s PVE servers currently in TBCC that are nowhere near full that perhaps they want to encourage players to use. People have also claimed to be very upset by faction imbalance on PVP realms so this is their test case. It’s isolated and if it goes one faction it makes warmode that much closer to a reality. Maybe. Then we’re all on PVE servers.
As a matter of observable fact most people don’t actually want to play on a PvP server. It’s just a holdover from the mentality of PvE servers being “carebear” servers and somehow lacking some abstract authenticity that PvP servers apparently provide, which creates a situation where the most competitive-minded PvE players are on PvP servers. Or, at least, that’s the impression, and that impression then causes that concern to manifest itself as reality. It’s much like how opening server transfers kills off entire servers due to the fear of other people transferring off causing each individual to actually transfer off, which means the fear creates the hypothetical reality causing it, like a deterministic, closed time loop.
What the vast majority actually want is to have a large pool of quality players to group with for content. It’s a (shrinking) minority that genuinely craves the reality of PvP servers.
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PVE servers are not popular and die.
Look at classic and TBC
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this is good. PvP realm chads rise up. i’m tired of splitting the playerbase between pvp and pve. it’s time for you carebears to play the real game, warts and all 
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Go away, you’ve said you have no plans to play wrath. Your opinion here is a waste of space.
Yea, like on the two largest classic servers. Totally tons of PvP going on! 
Because PvE sucks. LETS GOO FRESH HYPE
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I do. Up to that point I was one of the most active world PvP players on my server. Phase 1 definitely presented many situations which were cause for concern, but it was almost like what I remember with at least a number of people out and about and PvPing for the love of it. My ignorance to the reality of what PvP had become was maintained by the inertia of 15 years of being a fanatic of it and my desire to experience it further. Then phase 2 hit and it blew my ignorance of the situation wide open with the entire server activating like the sociopathic robots they were. No love for PvP at all but treating other players like resource nodes to be farmed. It also just generally opened the flood gates for every manner of antisocial behavior, even when it didn’t yield efficient honor. The blatantly obvious goal of PvP interactions had become to grief instead of compete; had become to tear down the server community instead of add to it. Utterly snuffed out the intensely burning fire of love I had for the activity.
Every single thing that happened afterwards confirmed my resolve to swap to a PvE server for TBC, and everything I’ve experienced and heard of in TBC has confirmed the correctness of that decision. The modern world “PvP” player is nothing more than a locust plaguing the MMO genre.
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A lot will quit, but I think a good chunk of these players will face their fears and play PvP anyway. Gotta have that fresh.
lol no. If people don’t want to PvP, they aren’t going to join a PvP server.
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the desire for fresh is strong
Yeah, huge let down to be honest. I really wanted to play a bit more casually this time around and not have to stress while out in the world, but looks like that’s not going to happen. I more feel bad for the friends I plan on playing with that were adamant that they really didn’t want to play on a PVP server and are now forced to.
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gonna guess youre an alt of frrk.
dont forget the ONLY high pop server in US WEST is a pve server
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And of course they give us no information about the reason. Did they not think people would notice or have a problem with this?!?
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I like the idea of pvp servers. Have always played on them, but to be honest, they are never really good. There is almost always some horrible faction imbalance, so it is never a fair fight. You are either unfairly hunting or hunted. It really makes the game unfunny with no drama.
playing on a PvP server builds character
They’ve edited the post and added a “Normal” (PVE) Fresh Start server: Maladath
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nice cope. i’ve been in plenty of 1v1s out in the world, even on imbalanced servers.