You’re saying it’s a choice to feel the need to level up a tank alt, because the frustration pushes them into it?
That’s a bit far-fetched.
No, I’m saying it’s a choice to act on that feeling.
I’d call it a natural response to social manipulation, but “potato, potaato” I guess.
It’s literally the same as acting on the feeling of frustration you get from a bad faction balance.
According to you just now, that is still a choice.
It’s not potato potaato.
I chose to roll a Paladin.
I did not choose to roll on a server that would end up with an 80/20 split. No more than you chose to be farmed while attempting to leave Undercity.
That’s such an asinine remark.
I’m all ears.
Self-explanatory.
Then please elaborate for this fool.
Because while you stick to the argument that you “did not choose” a server like that when it couldn’t be known beforehand how it would play out, a rogue did not choose a rogue the first night while knowing there’d be a tank shortage that’d directly affect them.
Same thing.
Whilst gameplay knowledge may vary, part of the reason I chose to roll a Paladin over a Rogue was because I personally knew that there would likely be an oversaturation of DPS, and thus chose a class that can perform all three roles.
What warning had I for the future of Gandling’s population? A server hamfisted into the realmlist along with countless others minutes before release because Blizzard spectacularly failed to anticipate the popularity of Classic? Just as they have managed faction imbalance as you yourself have previously said?
You suspected. I, as well, suspected the same thing. But there was never any guarantee. And are you going with the “blame the victim” rhetoric now, for the picking of the class?
Not everyone suspected it’d become like this. Do you imagine everyone would have picked exactly the same had they known there’d be such a disparity between roles?
If you’ll blame the victim for that, then I’ll blame the victims for servers. Same thing.
In this instance, yes, I am going to blame the victim. WoW has historically had a history of DPS oversaturation, and whilst it is most unfortunate for the new players with limited knowledge of the game, it is far from secretive. If you suspect something may happen, do not allow for the possibility of it occurring, and then get angry and blame it anyway, that is mere stupidity.
Last I checked, there was no PSA before servers went live that Blizzard would do nothing to mitigate faction imbalance, nor was there any label on a server indicating it was for Horde or Alliance in particular.
Feel free to blame the victims of server imbalance, but quite frankly, you’d be wrong. A lot of people correctly suspected that Horde would be the more popular faction due to the nature of Classic’s racial balance. I don’t think it’s fair however to expect that a server like Shazzrah would end up 90/10 because of it.
Except you knew Gandling would still be one of the more popular servers, since it was part of some of the servers to go up with the release. If you had waited a while after release and picked a new server then, you could also reasonably suspect there’d be more peace and quiet.
There has also been a lot of horde servers in vanilla, faction dominance wasn’t uncommon back then either. If you would go by the pvp videos, you could also suspect people would favor the windfury totem, as well as the people who played in the past may prefer a wf totem too.
But those are nothing more than conjectures, the same as with the roles. My server didn’t end up like that, and it’s a nearly full server. Yet I see so many complain about there being a lot more horde on other servers, so it was just a flip of a coin.
You still chose your server. Now deal with it.
So whilst I do not wish to dwell on myself since as I have said previously I personally am not bothered, you think it reasonable that players looking to play on launch day should have had to aimlessly wait around should Blizzard announce another batch of servers due to their own shortcomings?
For all we knew at the time of launch, Gandling could have been one of the last servers to release. You propose that me and my fellow Gandling players simply “wait” in case Blizzard silently decide to release new servers? That is an asinine statement.
I literally just said that it was relatively common knowledge that Horde would be more popular, so I fail to see the need to reiterate that fact, but even so, you deem such extreme, unmitigated balance issues a reasonable extrapolation of that fact?
It is a flip of the coin, yes. In fact I’ve used those exact words in a previous post. That does not mean that Blizzard should not strive to help out the realms which are struggling however, and to think otherwise is spiteful at best and idiotic at worst.
Except you had plenty of avenues to see the hype and the numbers building up for classic, and you knew somewhat the sizes of the servers. You could make estimates.
They also came out with a public statement during the summer that they had servers ready to roll out should the need arise.
On the contrary, we were told to expect server sizes akin to actual Classic, in the realm of 2.5-3k. We have numbers far exceeding those even now.
*Layer sizes. Not server sizes.
And what of their repeated message that servers would merge down to a single layer by BWL?
Which has happened, hasn’t it? And it was by phase 2, not BWL.
One can reasonably assume they compromised and kept the server sizes larger for it to work though, but the estimates for Classic by Blizzard was always low.
Exactly my point, if one cannot trust Blizzard even to provide accurate server sizes prior to launch, how can you reasonably make an informed decision? Even your original post says “somewhat the sizes” of the servers. Notice how we were never told how many additional servers they were ready to roll out should it be needed?
Picking servers beyond the original four was entirely guesswork and hearsay, and to use Shazzrah again as an example, just because you could predict it would be overpopulated, does not mean that it would be so heavily in favour of one faction that people are worried for its future.