World of Warcraft: Classic
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Springbok
Karen
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I literally hate these people. Smug, completely un-self aware, hubristic imbeciles who have ALWAYS thought they knew what the playerbase has wanted more than the players themselves. It's more evident with Blizzard than probably any other gaming company I can think of (YOU DONT HAVE PHONES???), and I'll be damned if I ever give these cocksu......
Man is it Tuesday yet?
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Bondurant
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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WoW business model in China is very different from NA/EU, it's all about game time and microtransactions. If it was "dictating" the market we'd have more than 15 mounts and 20 battlepets in the online store.
Shiftyx
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BfA is increasingly a time-sync with seasonal store items that seemingly get more design focus than class armor or tier sets (both of which dont really exist any more). So...
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The goldfarmers servicing the western market have to buy western accounts, so they are not in the "70% China" market share. Also, in CHina you buy hourly gametime for your account, and any account logged in at least once a month or so is counted as an active subscriber for that month. So they regularily buy multiple accounts, which makes trading characters easier and allows them to log in multiple chars at the same time.
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Korzax Stonehammer
Blackwing Lair Raider
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Szeth
Trakanon Raider
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Apparently after 30 minutes at character select you'll get booted. So to be safe you should try to get in the queue as close to 5:30pm as possible. That being said.... it could hurt you if the servers end up launching at 6:30 or later, and your 30 minute character select window is jeopardized. I am going to roll the dice and try to get in queue around 5:35 I think.
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Everyone should approach this with the understanding that playing within the first 24 hours will not be guaranteed. They've spent a lot of effort cutting costs on server and support stuff over the past few years, and something this popular could result in downtime that hasn't been seen since the original release.
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You only get booted for 30m of inactivity. Just create and delete a character over and over, starting at noon.
Szeth
Trakanon Raider
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Have you tested this, on Countdown to Classic they said they tried and it didn't work.
Arbitrary
Tranny Chaser
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If they have a rougher launch than the average EQ TLP I'll be at least a little disappointed. They're supposed to be the professionals and they gave themselves forever and a day to actually launch this thing. They've burned up a lot of goodwill in just the last year even and don't have any to spare on a total clusterfuck. I don't mean just big queues on big servers as people stubbornly refuse to go somewhere else either. I mean just hour after hour of nothing working anywhere for everyone. That would be a real black eye especially after so many people signed up just to reserve a couple goddamn names.
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Ukerric
Bearded Ape
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If that's 150-200k, then yes, they're down to 1 million subs. The rule of thumb that's always been true in MMO land is 1 prime-time player per 5 total players, except during DLC/expansion launches.
yerm
Golden Baronet of the Realm
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Given how out of touch bfa was and how indignant they were about classic, I've bought into the conspiracy theory that these snooty cunts want it to fail. If classic tanks they can told you so while continuing their live vision. If classic overwhelming succeeds it throws into question their ability to give players what they want. Financials to them aren't based on game success - the company getting more income doesn't mean a raise/bonus for the team that fought against what created it! Even worse, this could cause suits to start asking awful questions like "why are you designing this" or "why are you changing that" and fuck all that noise.