I would say that. This is fun to do.
Well said !!
Yeah, I would not be so sure of that.
But…but he guaranteed it! It’s not like TBCC has already proven him wrong or anything.
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What ruined the community more, RDF or the realm merges that Blizzard did?
Albert Einstein: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results .
We’ve had two iterations of classic without RDF and they have failed to recreate the vanilla atmosphere but surely it will in wrath. Let’s bleed some people with leaches, do some phrenology and maybe see if some chickens will eat. That seems to be blizzard’s methodology.
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More than likely RDF still.
I’ve seen mergers happen on other games and the server just changes a little with more people, it’s usually better for communities to have servers slammed together when people are getting dry.
So you believe RDF is more detrimental to server communities than taking entire servers offline and forcibly relocating the residents?
I mean…I don’t understand how allowing folks from Thunderfury to play with folks from Benediction was worse for Thunderfury than taking Thunderfury offline.
Like killing entire servers is better for server communities than allowing them to play together.
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That’s 100% not true. I really don’t like linking videos but much of what Brian Birmingham says is on videos. This is what he said starting at about 18 minutes.
I would say we’re closer to not never than we ever were cause we were at never from the very beginning. Like we started at never but it’s more contentious than we expected it to be and like I said we have people on the classic team who are saying oh actually I would like it. So we’re having those conversations now. I don’t want to over promise. We don’t expect to add it, but we are having these conversations now. It’s a new conversation and we want to make sure we’re doing the right thing.
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Yes, 100%.
Communities can regrow after getting moved around and opens up some more opportunities.
Systems like RDF just actually cut out the having to network part of the game.
I think one of the biggest things people are trying to see for a these classic trilogy is trying to preserve the old style of social structure.
RDF is the first major step in undermining these social structures.
I think a system like RDF can 100% still have a place for old dungeons and stuff like that but shouldn’t be used for current content.
I have never needed to network on the server unless i wanted to raid.
Then i didn’t need to network, just find a guild i wanted to join.
RDF didn’t stop that from happening. I was still more than capable of finding a guild alongside RDF being in game to be able to complete end game content.
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Having conversations does not result in overturning historically terrible decisions. They won’t reverse it. They will talk about it. They will talk about enhancing the LFG tool.
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They may or they may not. I put more faith in what Brian Birmingham, the lead developer of classic wow, says than what some clueless fool guesses on the internet. I’m funny that way.
I love it how the Anti-RDF crowd calls it terrible decisions, but yet, doesn’t even explain it themselves on how it is a terrible decision apart from false speculation that has been debunked.
Did you even play the game before RDF was in place?
Or the fact that if it’s such a terrible decision why it has remained in retail the whole time.
If it was in fact such a terrible decision and detrimental to the life of the game they would have removed it long ago… Its the exact opposite a beloved quality of life features that provides a more seamless experience into the game.
But but but “muh community” and “socialization”
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And why exactly do we NEED RDF?
Yes.
I’ve played since vanilla in 2004… started on blackrock server which was honestly a terrible experience with how unstable it was and the queues… but either way.
None of these things you guys claim were half as important as you say they were like server reputation… well know ninjas back then who were “blacklisted” never had any issues getting people to join their groups…
Hell there was whole ninja guilds running around with the worst “server rep” possible and it still never held them back.
Even back then i would rarely run dungeons with the same people, i mean on occasion sure. But i didn’t need a friends list full of randoms to enjoy the game, because i pretty much always had guilds to make doing the group content less tedious.
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What community and socialization. My server is basically dead, and it is not a fresh start realm
https://imgur.com/gallery/xqmwrme
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oof… clearly that’s entirely your fault for not RNG rolling on the right realm.
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