Liebe wrote:I disagree.gullygodx wrote:I think its naive to expect an increase in population. Not many people want to devote their time to a x1 server with a 5 year old expansion. From the pvp point of view i think wotlk is great, but you cant keep yourself entertained forever with the same comps and same cornerstone items like dbw, bauble. It just got boring after a while, so i went to Cata which was pretty nice at the beginning with all the new spells, tactics and comps i was really enjoying it. That was until blizzard destroyed arena at the end of Cata with all the pve gear, spellcleaves dominating all brackets and rogues with legendary daggers and vials, it turned into shit. Now with the release of MoP the game saw some of the best changes ever done, like the addition of pvp/resi powers, no more forced raiding, no more pve to obtain gear for pvp, its just great. I think MoP is a very solid expansion, probably the best one, the only thing i dislike is the constant nerf/buff thing that blizzard does, one day your class is completely unstoppable the next day youre nerfed to shit. I mean i played a warrior at the beginning, when taste for blood was oneshotting poeple, then the second wind overhealing ridiculous ammounts, after several nerfs and a few buffs its back to normal state. But now hunters and ele shamans are just ridiculous, so i hope they work it out.
Regarding the bug state of cata, several servers including AT have opened their cata realms just a few days ago. They have united under http://www.omfg.gg project to speed up the developement, the progress is quite good, so hopefully there will be a bugfree cata realm soon. They dont plan on adding t13 pve gear or stuff like vials so it might turn out better than retail was at the time. PS this is not an advertisement.
Feenix runs 3 classic servers (one instant 60 server, one boosted rated server and one true 1x blizzlike server) that have a few thousand active players combined. Same goes for their BC server, which I think is capped at 3K and sometimes has a queue to log in (probably not now during the summer). Both of those versions are older than Wrath and they have loads of players.
1x leveling certanly turns a lot of people away, but at the same time it creates a great community (or at least generally better than boosted servers do). I'm leveling myself right now and meeting other people leveling, so it's not something people aren't ready to do. Also, transfer tool will help a ton once it's released.
As for omfg.gg - there are 4 servers:
- AT
- Wowreach (~200 population)
- Some French only server (200 or less players)
- Some German only server (200 or less players)
So basically their entire PVE population combined is the same as TrueWoW has, only that they are spread on 3 different servers. I'm sure AT developers will sort a lot of spells, abilities and made sure that arenas work well enough, but as far as all the PVE content goes it's hard to say. I played on Wowreach for a while and the whole thing looked like someone very capable set it up half a year ago, then left it in hands of some guys who are unsure what they are doing. To be fair they did seem to be doing their best, so good luck to them, but I kinda doubt that their PVE servers will take off.
Even though I'm focusing more on PVP myself, playing on a well populated PVE server is a lot more enjoyable because of a social component, when not every player on the server is a self absorbed l33t multi glad and where you can also do world PVP, BGs that actually matter and generally piss around. Even though I started in BC, Wrath was when I actually learned the game and enjoyed it the most, so Wrath will always be my favourite expansion.
Besides, here I can play balance without fear of it being nerfed again and again, as it's currently happening on live. I don't even know how Blizzard's devs see balance, it's like they are just throwing random things at it and then nerfing it some more, just in case.
Arena tournament has more than 3000 players at peak hour ..it is the best pvp experience and apprecieted by most
the other servers are just crap . they will fail .
you said truewow will rise its population..indeed i believe it too since more retail players want's the old lore..and old arthas ..and TW do has an amazing community which love this server and offers great feedbacks ..but i wish they would put more effort into developing..i wish i could see here all dungeons working ..ruby sanctum..and so on ..
yeah indeed mop damage is insane ..100k dps ...the fuck.
it makes me cry when i see it .solo arthas ..
( so saaaad . but pvp in mop is amazing .. 
let's hope 6.0 will bring back some good lore .. 
anyway they should stop at 6.0 ..wow had enough expansions..if they do even more they'll destroy the game even more ..or they can make a new game based on wow but only for pvp lovers..just like LOL is . regarding pve content ..it's kinda ruined ..
