This is fucking spot on. Us no-lifers will ACTUALLY be using sun/moon cycles to judge what time of the day it is. "Huh, when was that, three mornings ago?" The morning crowd will come and go. The moon crowd will come and go... We will still be on. Grinding.
Okay, I identify as member of the dusk crowd then :lol:
I will be about two weeks late for the party because I will be on vacation without computers and will only have my phone. Either way, since my experience with LK launch, which was a disaster, I decided never, ever, to log on launch, I usually start playing about three days after. I expect this launch to be the same as other before, if not worst, and I will be amusing myself will the amount of threads that will come up from: "Layering sucks!", "Servers down wtf blizz!?!?", "I got corpse camped again qq :( ", "What's the realm for french players?", "What realm is Asmon playing on?", "I killed Sodapoppin", etc.
When I start playing I'm hoping the non contested zones will have a good amount of people on them, but nothing too overwhelming, when hitting the contested zones I expect PvP to be around the same level as there shouldn't be many 60's yet without anything else to do!
I'm avoiding launch like the plague.
Hopefully I'll have been able to reserve my name(s) prior to launch.
I'm more than happy to just wait a week or so and have a more enjoyable experience.
I'm avoiding launch like the plague.
Hopefully I'll have been able to reserve my name(s) prior to launch.
I'm more than happy to just wait a week or so and have a more enjoyable experience.
Hopefully you dont go on a PvP-Server then :p (the more enjoyable experience could end fast then)
I'm avoiding launch like the plague.
Hopefully I'll have been able to reserve my name(s) prior to launch.
I'm more than happy to just wait a week or so and have a more enjoyable experience.
Hopefully you dont go on a PvP-Server then :p (the more enjoyable experience could end fast then)
You're not wrong. :lol:
I think it depends. In the stress test, the first server my guild and I chose had really no issues whatsoever. A bit of a wait here and there, but nothing major. When they shut down all but two, it was a mess. I couldn't even do anything the first night there were so many people camping the same mobs. I went on yesterday evening after work and it was much quieter, had no problem again.
So I think there's a good chance the first night it will be horrible, but hopefully, it will die down relatively fast in the starting zones at least. If not I hope that layering helps alleviate the annoyance of a very large group in a very small area.
Yes, for those of us who don't practice speed running, or haven't played on private servers, the launch is going to feel like chaos. (The stress tests so far seem to indicate this).
And you know what? I cant fucking wait. Give me overcrowded starting zones, no mobs to kill, players running everywhere. Because with those things comes all of the fun things that you only get to experience at a launch. People spamming chat, groups forming left and right just to kill mobs 4 levels higher than you.
Ill get to experience "normal" gameplay and nice and easy leveling when i make alts later on. But this, I'll only get to experience once.
What definitely is going to be a mess are the chats in EU servers.
My guess is that it will be quite a mess.
Servers will probably die and it will be a mess.
I am on vacation that week. It wasn't planned for Classic because at that time we didn't know the release date. But after Blizzard announced that it is launching in 27th August, my vacation just became planned for Classic.
What I did was immediately leave the starting area and meet up with the other like minded individuals that wanted to party up and grind outside if the starting zone. Once I hit level 5 I started to fish nonstop.
It was the most fun I've ever had in Durotar.
And this wasn't with speed leveling in mind of course, but it was sure as shit quicker than fighting for boar for 45 minutes.
Hopefully I'll have been able to reserve my name(s) prior to launch.
Well you can always create a character, save the name and play it a week after :wink:
If the stress test provided any insight into what the starting areas might be like... it'll be manageable if you're not the type to flip your @#$%*! at a little adversity.
Group up whenever possible, be patient, and soak in the nostalgia.... I feel like the starting zone madness is part of the experience. Maybe you'll group up with someone who winds up becoming a friend, guild mate, etc. I know this is an optimistic, "pie in the sky" type of attitude but why the heck not... Blizzard is bringing back a classic version of the game and giving us all a chance to capture or recapture some of the magic we felt when we first played it... that same secret sauce that prompted the creation of this forum, spawned countess private vanilla servers, and ultimately created the ground swell that led to Classic WoW being a real thing.
Soak it in boys and girls... or ignore everything I've typed and log in day one with all of the stress, impatience and angst you can muster so we can witness your public melt down in chat. Either way, you'll add to my enjoyment by being part of the magic that is Classic WoW.
Cheers.
If no layer/shard happen at the launch day it will be a completely mess. Imagine paying so much for a database to hold millions of people simultaneously joining your server. That's why stress tests are here for: Blizzard will try to launch without layer/shard, if became a mess, then layer/shard mode activated :lol:.
If no layer/shard happen at the launch day it will be a completely mess. Imagine paying so much for a database to hold millions of people simultaneously joining your server. That's why stress tests are here for: Blizzard will try to launch without layer/shard, if became a mess, then layer/shard mode activated :lol:.
I wonder if blizzard will change the server cap value on launch day? Whatever its set at now seems way too high lol. It might be something they have to monitor and change on the fly. Just looking at the stress test as an example, the starting zone died down by the time I logged on the next morning 4am PST. So after the huge flood of new characters they might want to increase the value?