Now I just have to remember to do this.
I am dreading the thought that I could pick my names on a streamer server.
I guess I should put my main’s name on three different servers and see what happens? Would have liked to reserve my alt’s name too...
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.
Yup, same here, but I'll most likely still reserve some of my names anyway. Atleast it's just a couple of weeks prior to launch. If they wanted to go full cashgrab they could've went with July instead.
On top of that I'm planning to play with friends and it's hard to get them to make their mind up about stuff. Here's to hope we know which server we will play on so I can reserve names on the correct ones. It'd suck to have the reserved names stuck on a realm you aren't going to play on because your friends changed their mind on launch day..
Kinda stresses me out. I really want some of my favorite character names (cough, Authiel, cough) reserved on whatever realm my friends and I play on. I just hope we get a server list before then so my friend group can pre-determine where we are going to roll so I can get my precious names.
Smart move on behalf of Blizzard. This is gonna be an early snapshot of how many players to expect per realm and be they'll able to adjust accordingly prior to actual launch.
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.
Consider the fact that Teebling got beta access w/o a sub. I doubt it's for the money.
Teeb got beta access w/o a sub because he runs barren.chat.
You don't need a sub to "apply" for beta, but I would say to be granted an invite you would need a sub (unless you have sick privileges like teebs!).
I think it's disgusting that they did this and I have been strongly against people subscribing for a chance to play the beta but I won't be able to get the names I want if I don't do this so I'm unsure as to what I'm going to do. Regardless it's pretty greedy and scummy of Blizzard.
I guess I'll take a subscription to reserve some names. I might just log into the BfA version of WoW to check out my old characters.
It's good, it allows people to not insta take all the good names - like I normally do.
I want 3 characters in Classic so it works well for me.
This is a well used practice in MMOs with almost all Korean MMOs use this on fresh launches so I don't understand what the problem is other than some privilege players seem to think they have -- inb4 "having to pay for it" most western publishers of KR MMOs make you pay £20+ for name res.
Honestly, personally thinking about it... I would still be annoyed if you had to pay money to reserve names, but I actually think I would be less annoyed if it was just a 'reserve name' fee and not 'you need to sub.'
I wouldn't surprised if this whole thing is a way to keep the Activision (read: bad) part away from Classic. It's like Blizzard saying "yeah you'll get your cash grab", but in reality this whole thing is a way smaller deal than it's blown up to be. I mean, how often when you create a new account somewhere or a new character on a private server is your name actually taken? For me, it's never.
I wouldn't surprised if this whole thing is a way to keep the Activision (read: bad) part away from Classic. It's like Blizzard saying "yeah you'll get your cash grab", but in reality this whole thing is a way smaller deal than it's blown up to be. I mean, how often when you create a new account somewhere or a new character on a private server is your name actually taken? For me, it's never.
Well take a look at your name and then look at mine, everyone can guess which name is taken first (and in my case very fast).
With BfA currently estimating at a 3.5m playerbase Classic is more than a cash grab, it's a lifeline for Activision Blizzard.
I wouldn't surprised if this whole thing is a way to keep the Activision (read: bad) part away from Classic. It's like Blizzard saying "yeah you'll get your cash grab", but in reality this whole thing is a way smaller deal than it's blown up to be. I mean, how often when you create a new account somewhere or a new character on a private server is your name actually taken? For me, it's never.
Well take a look at your name and then look at mine, everyone can guess which name is taken first (and in my case very fast).
With BfA currently estimating at a 3.5m playerbase Classic is more than a cash grab, it's a lifeline for Activision Blizzard.
With cash grab I meant that the name reservations was the closest they could get to a cash grab for now, seeing there's no ingame shop (god forbid there ever will be).
And yeah, I see the point about your name vs. mine. Personally, that's why I don't give with names from the dictionary. For a period quite a while back, I wanted to go with Anubis, but due to obvious reasons I was denied that name so many times I just gave up. I understand that not everyone wants to do this, and then yeah, I can see the annoyance in having to pay for your name.
I think this whole issue is just an embodiment of 2019 game publisher culture. There's no pre-orders for Classic - instead we will have name reservations. Sucks to be on the consumer side, but I guess the masses and several years of poor consumption culture are at fault
I think this whole issue is just an embodiment of 2019 game publisher culture. There's no pre-orders for Classic - instead we will have name reservations. Sucks to be on the consumer side, but I guess the masses and several years of poor consumption culture are at fault
Idk the amount of times I've missed getting names due to dumb stuff like server limits etc or a random bug
At least with name res no one will actually be logging in and lagging/limiting the server