I am sure Blizzard are interested in continuation of Classic (2019) progression realms as much as we do, but with current trend there is a huge risk that WoD Classic will drive away critical mass of players needed to draw returning players attention to Legion Classic.
Although recent consolidation of MoP Classic on EU-En, DE and Fr realms shows healthy 45:55-ish faction breakdown thanks to PvE realms adding a lot of Alliance players to ex PvP realms, we all know that this proportion will shift towards Horde bias by the end of WoD and that will cause many of Alliance to faction change into the Horde, but many more to quit Classic project.
To negate further faction disbalance effect on overall population I suggest
Cross faction play with players of “opposing” faction appearing as races of your own in a group or raid. This will speed up queue time on BGs and instance search alike.
Making mirrored racials for both factions. This is harder to pull, but essential to stop players from choosing to play only 2 races in PvE and one in PvP.
This way population will be evenly spread and less guilds and communities would be broken due the need to make decision over faction change as well as snowball effect of newcomers/returners joining bigger faction would have no real impact.
Horde bias has existed since TBC and it isn’t news to anyone. Blizzard won’t do anything about it because they sell 25$ automated database entry changes.
What really drives players away is the uncertainty about the future of Classic. No one knows if MoP is the end or if we’ll move forward into WoD. I think a lot of people are simply afraid of wasting their time in Classic.
On top of that, removing PvP servers made many players leave. Blizzard could easily fix this by adding the Warmode feature as soon as possible.
blizzard can and will not fix anything , there is absolutly 0 connect with the community or the people that where playing and are playing. They sit in their little office´s and conjure up some ingenious idea while having morning coffee and then they implement it and go “yeah players would love that” while the actual players just unsub. Destroying their game is their main goal at this point and they are putting all their eggs in Midnight basket which they will find out serves only the retail players.
Classic will be killed off in favour of “player housing”. Why do you think they are on the warpath with private servers at the moment , it was silent, dorment for months in regards to private servers then they did the stupidiest thing ever and made “mega” servers no one asked for !
Blizzard dev´s and forum posters are just dumb sheep in a wolf world !!
Njoy the last of classic which by the way isnt even classic more like Re-make/re invisioned / re worked # of garbage !
With removing expertise hit which happend in wod ppl went to Horde, because simply Horde has better racial who increase dps. And then removing grp loot in Legion make greedy classic Andies even more quit.
Patch 7.0.3 (19-Jul-2016): Every Man for Himself now removes all Stun effects and shares a 30-second cooldown with other items or abilities that have a similar effect. Changed to remove only “all stun effects” from “all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character.”
You do know that player housing was a concept for Vanilla WoW in 2004, don’t you? Yes it was done only in WoD but in a horrible garrisons in full isolation mode, before it became main stream 4 years later.
My point is that I had player housing in SWG in early 2000s and this isn’t a new concept for MMO by any means. Like Tycus from SC:WoL said “He’ll, it’s about time!”
