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This is very nice, but they had this shit, probably even more aggressive, on the private servers and it still sucked. But what can you do.
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This is very nice, but they had this shit, probably even more aggressive, on the private servers and it still sucked. But what can you do.
Tmac
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Why? With phasing in place one new server will hold 3x-ish of an old server's pop. right?
misery
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If you think the steady US population in game will be at least 500k, which I do, EQ was what, 400k during it's prime? Even Classic WoW should have higher numbers if the hype is any indicator. Maybe I'm completely overestimating how well Classic will do though. If they made their server numbers based on how many played their stress test, they might want to rethink that strategy as it required an active sub and the majority of people I've seen in polls or talked to haven't even been subbed to retail.
Anyway, 11 US realms including the PvE, PvP, RP and RPPVP servers. 500k players. That comes to what, 45,000 people per individual realm? What happens when they merge the layers, or if they don't merge the layers after saying they would? I heard most private servers only had around 10k and they were pretty crazy. Never played one, so I can't say for sure. Still, 45,000 active or semi-active people per server seems like a lot to me, even with layering. Not to mention the PvP servers will likely have more than that since they seemed to have overestimated the amount of people who will end up playing PvE a bit. I'm not saying there won't be plenty on the PvE servers, I'm just saying I don't think their ratio reflects what will happen with server choices.
Also weak names for the PvP servers. They could have done better.
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They never said what population cap for a server (or layer now, I guess) would be but in vanilla it was under 3k before you started getting queues. 45k seems intensely unlikely but who knows with blizzard really.
though I agree at least through naxx I'm betting the pop is 300k+, but it'll come and go between content updates cause everything is just gonna be crushed.
though I agree at least through naxx I'm betting the pop is 300k+, but it'll come and go between content updates cause everything is just gonna be crushed.
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I honestly think this is what they expect. Between “you think you do but you don’t” and the other smug dipshits at the company that think that BFA design is the way to go. I feel like there are more than a few at Blizzard who want Classic to fail or at least use it to convert people to retail. Otherwise they might have to finally admit they are fucking failures riding the coattails of better men who made WoW to begin with.
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Of course they want it to fail. It makes about 90% of the people working on wow meaningless and redundant if it succeeds and bfa tanks
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WoW Classic Test Realms Open Through Monday
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This is why you go horde. I swear the god, every moron autist will be playing ally.
Burren
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Yeah. All the Horde zones I was in, people were serious. All the Allianze zones? Dumbest conversations imaginable.
misery
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This could be absolute bullshit, but I've heard East coast servers are in Chicago area. West servers are very likely in California. If we go East, that should put you on the exact opposite side of the world?
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I wonder if they would fully support both games in parallel. Currently, I don't have the time to play and my net interest is negative. That doesn't mean I might change my mind depending on where they go with this. A return to the era where classes were quite distinct. Where player choice and investment was much more pronounced.
Fuck it, reuse 100% of the content but give me tanks, healers, and dps that are starkly different. Full avoidance bears and DKs to push crushing blows off the hit table. That kind of shit was FUN. A class was an actual fucking class, not just a role. DPS warriors toeing the aggro line. Reverse the homogenization trend was kicked into high gear with Cataclysm.
Fuck it, reuse 100% of the content but give me tanks, healers, and dps that are starkly different. Full avoidance bears and DKs to push crushing blows off the hit table. That kind of shit was FUN. A class was an actual fucking class, not just a role. DPS warriors toeing the aggro line. Reverse the homogenization trend was kicked into high gear with Cataclysm.
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misery
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I mean if we assume a 400k active playerbase at 3k players per layer and 3 layers per server (9K total players) that's what, 44-45 servers?
I wonder if our expectations are just too high or if theirs are just too low.