World of Warcraft - Game Thread

I play a human hunter for the alliance. Well I am still new level 6 player.so I can create another character if need be.

nefe_lpmk wroteJoin us , we are a group of Lebanese friends on Emerald Dream - US ( good 50/50 world pvp server)

how are you handling the high pings there? my 70ms to EU is frustrating enough...

Hmmm i just switched to EU with a 100 Worgen warlock
any EU realm guilds here?

I'm playing EU server "Auchindoun" level 100 blood DK "Hordecore" .. in a guild, not a very good one though :P

Guys, is wow worth getting into now? It has been launched years ago, would I be completely useless if I joined now? And is the game still a good game?

I am looking to play a game with guilds and voice chats and have dungeon raids and cooperative gameplays and stuff... Would it be the game for me?

It is at least one of the top 3 mmorpgs till this day .. the community is active .. but you should find a good guild.
as for the game-play now it is very competitive now after the launch of the new patch ... a new feature was the introduction of a instant level 90 with each purchase of the game (not sure if this is still applicable) .. the level 90 boost can also be bought multiple of times .. so if you are a new player and if you are familiar with mmorpgs then you can level up after the first 20 levels or you just level one character like i did and then invest the boost in a character you think that might suit your game-play better.

in short a very good and active game for now, but unfortunately things will settle soon, so better try it now i think you will like it.

hello any active users still playing the game I have a level 100 warlock worgen alliance on EU server and my main account is a US account on emerald dream realm "guild angels of apocalypse" with 2 level 90s (human warlock:guigoo and worgen DK:thedarkened) alliance I will getting the expansion on the US as I have some good professions and gold and I will boost a horde paladin to 90 and move on to 100 on both

if there are still someone active on any of those servers let me know

Anyone playing on Argent Dawn, Sylvanas, Ravencrest EU?

Kazouza wroteAnyone playing on Argent Dawn, Sylvanas, Ravencrest EU?

Hey Kazouza, I'm taking a break at the moment, only playing Hearthstone and some other games, I'm on Ravencrest Alliance.
Btag: Melkor#2987 if interested. I play Retribution and Mage ! :)

Legion on august 30th, 2016

Who wants to play the expansion?

i will be raiding on twilight's hammer-EU as a boomkin. If anyone is good and wants to raid mythic and still has interest in the game contact me please.

Also concerning the warcraft movie, if you would like to go watch it with 10+ warcraft fans till now, give me a direct message.

Thanks

Ploto#2903

Don't join WoW now. It is at it's lowest point since the game was created. Wait until the reviews for Legion or until Blizzard makes legacy realms.

tt400 wroteDon't join WoW now. It is at it's lowest point since the game was created. Wait until the reviews for Legion or until Blizzard makes legacy realms.

Doubtful you'll ever see legacy(vanilla) servers:

We explored options for developing classic servers and none could be executed without great difficulty. If we could push a button and all of this would be created, we would. However, there are tremendous operational challenges to integrating classic servers, not to mention the ongoing support of multiple live versions for every aspect of WoW.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20743584206?page=1#1

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For a new player, it does not matter when to start playing, you have a long way before anything related to Legion matters to you.

xterm wrote Doubtful you'll ever see legacy(vanilla) servers:

Blizzard are meeting with the people who created the private server Nostralius this week I believe. They're working something out. And if that doesn't work out they'll create a pristine realm for players that resembles Vanilla, of course no one would want that as much as classic WoW but still it's something.

I don't care about the fact that the number of subscriptions might be at its lowest point and this kind of reasoning never appealed to me.
I personally play the game because I still enjoy it with friends (never stopped or took a break since 2009).
Of course, the game has gone through tremendous changes since its inception but it's still one of the rare MMOs that offer a lot of things to do (even at max level).

Totoro wrote Blizzard are meeting with the people who created the private server Nostralius this week I believe. They're working something out. And if that doesn't work out they'll create a pristine realm for players that resembles Vanilla, of course no one would want that as much as classic WoW but still it's something.

Maintaining diverging paths of software is way too costly and complex for any company. (even one as big as Activision-Blizzard)

Pristine realms aren't going to satisfy the Vanilla cravers and Blizzard has clearly said that they will not maintain or allow Nostralius folk to maintain a vanilla realm. The link was pretty clear on that.

My guess is they will simply keep the discussions open indefinitely or until such a time when they find good reason in having a vanilla realm. (factoring number of players, difficulty to maintain and income)

I'd much rather they invest every single asset they have making the game better, than worrying about vanilla, but that's just me.

xterm wrote

Totoro wrote Blizzard are meeting with the people who created the private server Nostralius this week I believe. They're working something out. And if that doesn't work out they'll create a pristine realm for players that resembles Vanilla, of course no one would want that as much as classic WoW but still it's something.

Maintaining diverging paths of software is way too costly and complex for any company. (even one as big as Activision-Blizzard)

Pristine realms aren't going to satisfy the Vanilla cravers and Blizzard has clearly said that they will not maintain or allow Nostralius folk to maintain a vanilla realm. The link was pretty clear on that.

My guess is they will simply keep the discussions open indefinitely or until such a time when they find good reason in having a vanilla realm. (factoring number of players, difficulty to maintain and income)

I'd much rather they invest every single asset they have making the game better, than worrying about vanilla, but that's just me.

Yeah I wish they would do that too. But I would definitely play Vanilla-TBC realms if they were released again. I don't want to sound like the typical 'it was so good back in the day' guy but I actually had the most fun playing the first three expansions of WoW with friends. I've tried many MMO's and they were all just meh. After a while it just gets boring playing shooter and moba games.

However, if Legion fails, the WoW subscription numbers are going to tank and this will raise a few questions about the direction of WoW and it may provide the incentive to create legacy realms.

MMOs tend to be on a decline, they peak at some point and only pickup on new releases especially when you consider this game being on top of the subscriber chart, breaking most records in sales on release and subs for quite a long time (it's highest being during WotLK iirc?). I wouldn't expect it to get any better in Legion, it'll peak at the start but declined fast towards mid-life.

The current ~10k subs to Nostalrius may have a reason to play Vanilla (It was fun back in the day, I agree) but that doesn't mean that if Legion fails, people will resort to Vanilla servers.

Jagex did so and now there are two entirely different games of RuneScape, each being updated regularly.

The costs with creating and maintaining these legacy realms are also not expensive at all, considering a team of hobbyists were able to do it.

I don't know Jagex well enough to make an informed opinion, but I know software and diverging software paths are quite difficult to maintain *especially* when you have 8 years worth of bugs and fixes that ought to be in that vanilla realm. While a team of hobbyist quite easily could settle for a working vanilla instance disregarding the entire fixes that went through these 8 years (9 assuming pre 1.1?), blizzard would not.

Blizzard would rather tell its subscribers "we know what you want" than give them the honest truth about their profit margin concerns.

Money talks, and its voice is getting louder.

They've made and still are making drastic mistakes in their design decisions, which is costing them a lot of subs. Legion has the very same flaw that WoD had, they've simply renamed it "Order Halls".

I hope Legion succeeds.