I booted hardcore classic recently, not because I like hardcore, but because fresh vanilla servers are scarce.
I was surprised that the starting zones are almost empty of players, horde and alliance, EU and NA prime (meanwhile, some old RP p-serv is chock full of low level players). Even orgrimmar was almost empty despite the population displayed as “High”. I traveled from south durotar to bloodhoof village, saw maybe two players on the way.
Can anyone help me understand why they’re empty like that? Is it because only badasses play there and they’re already 60? I had expected these zones to be lively considering, you know, the defining feature of the server
Well, it is at it’s core a leveling challenge, maybe some of the ppl who reached 60 just went on to better things, and play no more, hance its only the few who still struggle:D
Few weeks back there was big issue with servers instability that lasted for almost a week, many players lost their chars due to this and were just angry that blizzard refused to address this issue and bend rules to give chars back so many players just quit. After that you could notice huge drop in online players and number of layers drop half of what they use to be but still you could see that suddenly there is not to many people playing.
Last week we had same Friday night I think it was when we got sudden server restart and after that server was unstable for next 24 hours or so, probably again drove many people away.
Since we got hardcore, servers are more unstable then ever and that is one of most important things that HC needs, stable servers.
I swear sometimes I think someone is doing this on purpose and sabotaging on Blizz because I cant believe this level of incompetence.
Now I know someone will try to justify and deny what I said with some things like oh there are bunch of players etc, yeah but only in prime time during night and in morning there is very low number of players and again dont tell me things like “Yeah what did u expect at those hours” because before that instability even at those hours you could find people everywhere and 0 trouble in forming groups for anything and again after that it suddenly drop in numbers so that and nothing else had huge impact on player numbers.
Blizzard fail to react, bend rules in catastrophic event like it was, lack of communication and even refusing to put warning on application to say servers are unstable play at ur own risk is what got player to stop playing. That warning maybe could save thousands of chars that not knowing logged on Saturday morning on forth day of instability and big crash happened…
At end they even closed post on forums where people were complaining about this as resolved while still like one moth after we have same issues, not so often but still happening like lags when joining groups or changing zones, disconnects every now and then during day…
I believe those are real reasons but hey now you will hear how no it is not I am wrong when those on call bots come to defend Blizzard actions with posting rules that we signed on start etc but it wont change fact bunch of players left…
Dude, I just said what I saw. And you immediately call me a bot. About three weeks ago, I was whining in another forum thread about the huge demotivation I felt after dying due to a disconnect. But I’ve gotten over the demotivation and decided to run around again.
But in the Barrens, there really are a lot of people. I don’t know how many layers there are, I’m generally a newbie and don’t even know how to check that in the game :-D, but I saw a lot of messages in the guild chat. Why are you being so aggressive right away?
I think people don’t begin again now after death, because HC hype is over and Blizzcon is soon with possible announcement of fresh classic servers. So for the most part people who remain playing hardcore already have high lvl characters but wouldn’t begin again after death anymore. But yes blizzard can decrease number of layers now on HC so locations will not be so empty. And also add layers to era which is more populated now because people transferring there from HC after death.
Most likely you got on a fresh layer that evening. Low lvl (1-29) HC zones are most densly packed with players unlike in any WoW version with only exception being their launch days.
Prolly a bad luck layer with only high lvl players. Ive seen plenty of people around all times of day in starter areas. Always more than 10+ with /who command.
Well to me it was obviously that maybe around 30% of the players were gone by blizzards inability to give players stable servers. Dying to disconnect should be a rare thing and not a common one.
If everyone knows the least someone who has host his char to a game-bug or servercrash, this reduces the fun of many.
Still whenever I play low level zones, i feel not alone, but i play on stitches.
Any time spent in the game is time lost in something else. We come to the game to lose time, but in return to get pleasure. Playing on hardcore servers is more fun.
And the only problem that can demotivate you to play is death from bugs or disconnects.
(By the way, to avoid death from disconnection, I decided to play as a hunter with a pet, I don’t really like this class, but with my unstable Internet connection this is the only solution)
It is noticeably quieter on Nek’rosh than it was a few weeks ago. I’m currently doing the Tarren Mill quests and can’t complete the harder quests because there’s so few players around.
There were 5 layers on the server, now there’s only 3, the frequency of Rend buffs has dropped to almost zero, suggesting fewer L60 players doing the high level stuff.
