If you’re eager to claim your character name in WoW Classic, take note: we’ll be opening character creation on Tuesday, August 13.** Players with an active subscription or game time on their account will be able to create up to three characters per World of Warcraft account. We’ll have more information on realm names closer to launch, but rest assured—you’ll have plenty of time to figure out your plans for realm domination!
What are your thoughts on being able to reserve three names before the game is launched? Do you think this will allow bots with basic accounts to reserve names intended for resale?
I am personally not a fan because I have a long list of names that I would like to get on different servers and this will limit me to only three in the beginning.
I'm not a fan because they're requiring a subscription just for that.
When you combine it with Blizzard making the odd change from 'sub required to play beta, anyone can sign up' over to 'sub required to sign up AND play' it's pretty clear they're after a cash grab any way they can.
Not a fan.
This is good thing, i like how they approach this. Three characters for one account is fine to save your favourite name and avoid people to reserve too many "cool" names. Having a subscription is a perk for people who actually care about game at this moment and are not trolls to steal everybody names on free accounts. No mean a cash grab just a way to avoid said problems.
It will be interesting to see how successful this process is. It could be a shit fight, but I may do it to try an secure my two main names.
I'm fine with this approach. They could have made it better, sure, but at least they took an approach for it. I'm not sure what name I want to reserve.
"Firelord" would be neat, but is it a name I want, or is it a name I will even be able to take? We'll see. As said, I got plenty of time to think. I'm not 100% sure yet what faction, race and class I want to go with yet.
It will be interesting to see how successful this process is. It could be a shit fight, but I may do it to try an secure my two main names.
Yea, im wondering if this will be their best metric to field how many servers they plan to initially launch with? Either way, i'll be reserving my names too!
I don't really care. Not paying half a month in advance just to reserve a name.
I would much prefer to reserve my character names without having to subscribe in advance, but I've decided that I'm going to do it anyway.
really do not care because i have around 12 names and most of them are not taken even on retail.
Let me put it this way: if they'd sell the service to reserve 3 names for 13 euros, we'd still buy it. This way we get a few weeks of retail sub and 2 weeks of Classic WoW included.
Yeah it's a sucky principle but I'd still pay. I would've paid a lot more for Classic WoW alone, I don't care.
It will be a game in itself; a mad scramble to get your ultimate Classic name. Everyone will log in to get theirs, server overloads, outages, confusion, dogs & cats living together, Mass Hysteria...
As I understand that feature, it is still only three names on up to three servers.
Its a good feature, and I guess I will take my mains name on several PVP servers if there is a sudden change of plans and it's gonna be a different server.
I'm happy to hear they're doing this, but I hope they also allow us to choose our character features, as well.
Half a sub to narrow down who really wants to reserve names or not is a good idea. It’s like rehoming fees for pets: you don’t necessarily need the money but you want the name to go to someone who will love and use it (and in the case of pets, care for it well because of the investment).
Idk tbh, i have no opinion. I'm perfectly fine with creating a name on launch day but i can understand some people's request for names.