Classic Era - Population

Looking at the fact that currently all Classic Era realms are at ‘LOW’ population, wouldn’t it better to have only 2 realms for PVP, 2 for PVE and 1 for RP instead of having this rather large amount of empty realms. Personally I will likely just play TBC (I love the expac and I’m also part of a great guild), but already I do miss Classic itself a little bit and want to play it every now and again. But it is difficult to play on almost empty realms and tbh it is not needed to have that many anyway. My personal experience in classic is the great instanced content and that’s the best part I have experienced in this game including raids and dungeons. But it every realm is so low pop it would be difficult to experience that content properly. What do you guys think?

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That is sort of how it is already, 2 pvp clusters where the servers in each cluster are essentially merged; its only one server for each cluster; no layers present. Same auction house, players can trade with eachother, can group eachother, form guilds ect; besides name in every way the servers are merged. (Only side effect being now you can now have a ton more bank alts + multiple old addons will struggle with the “name+server” addition).
But yea effectivly they are merged.

Its still not quite enough though, on pvp 1 horde side we have reasonable activity, horde side cleared every raid/world boss from week one with a “reasonable” pug scence. But its still pretty dead, the cluster all put together is like a low to medium server.
Hopefully they do merge pvp 1 and pvp 2 together (or more :smiley: ).

The Rp servers without any connections currently however is in even more desperate need of help.

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I get you man. Thanks on the update btw. Hopefully things get better as honestly I love the social aspect of classic as well as the instances as I mentioned. In regards to RP… well RP is a bit of a meme thing (thats how I see it at least) it’s fun but it is only good for a very limited amount of players, thats why I think that only one RP realm altogether is the best.

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The primary PVE-RP realm was never more than 10% RP, if even 5%. Probably more like 3%. Large majority of players there are just as gutted as players on other realms.

Personally I’m looking at a expense of about 250 euro to transfer off of a dead RP realm and onto a vaguely active PVE realm.
It is outrageous that I have to pay such a sum for actiblizz’s shortcomings and greed. And I definitely won’t do it. Nor will I start over on a fully developed realm nearly 3 years in.

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How is it Blizzard fault that the game simply moved forward?

Forward? More like upward into space.

Who moved it in that direction? The entire concept of classic is shattered and turned into nothing, but a copy of retail. Maybe you will react when the same happens to TBC and WOTLK “because the game moved forward into cata /snort”

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But…TBC did follow Vanilla, as it did WoTLK. I am not naive to think it wouldnt.

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Yes and now its in Shadowlands.

I don’t get your point. Do you think that wow classic should only ever be bound with one certain expansion? That’s not how the definition of classic works.

It’s Blizzards fault for charging so much for something that should cost a lot less or be £12 for all characters.

You can usually spot an empty realm by it’s auctions and the connected realms have very low numbers of auctions.
TBC Pyrewood Alliance 81k auctions alone, Classic-era Pyrewood had 102 this afternoon, not 102k just 102. And that’s the combined with Mirage raceway and Netherguard keep number.

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there are 1k auctions on the Gehennas-Era (its in the morning, normally we got like 1200-1500) and we are currently Raiding ONY,ZG,AQ20,MC,BWL,AQ40 regularly
and we are not just raidloging, there is strat/Scholo/Ubrs etc.

Zandalar Tride RP-PVP server just now, Alliance -

1 online, lvl 47.
28 auctions.

Needs to be a free transfer system away from ZT, so players can choose whether they go RP, PVE or PVP based realms.

Then you have to imagine that the PvP realms are split into two connected groups and that the power population PvP realms used to have more than that amount of auctions by themselves.

I really do think Blizzard need to do something to fix this rather than connecting realms.

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That might sound okay, but for comparison’s sake, Mirage Raceway always had around 10k, jumping to 65k during prepatch and now it’s about 80k.

Holy moly :smiley:

First, they force a decision and there is no way back.
Second, questioning it is a mentality thing along the line of capitalist / socialist approach to life. The former says, you fend for yourself - whoever was stupid enough to play Classic shall endure it, the rules were clear. The latter says, it’s the regulator’s responsibility to create a viable environment, where you can rebound, catch up, and so on.

Technically speaking, emotional attachment aside the best course of action is to purchase 2 boosts, one for a tank or healer and another for a great outdoor class, and otherwise stay classic. Additional leveling is easy over time. Or more boosts, when you feel like it.

Or a class that can do all of it like a Paladin or Druid, as you can only have one boost per Classic account.

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