The day Blizzard killed the RP community. Patch 7.0.3

[Katie45]

All these people don't understand that SW for rp servers the big ones, moonguard and WrA and AD, always had full cities, and this new change destroyed that, we have less people, people from other servers, or if your really unlucky empty cities, why well because the game is sharding off people into different phases, I can't even see my guild mates or friends sometimes. and sometimes we I do see them, they get phased away later.

[Tziva]

I love how for years players have been complaining about SW looking empty (even though most of the game content is outside of SW) and now that people are in Sw they are complaining about players being there.

You've misunderstood what this thread is complaining about. It has nothing to do with there being too many players. It has to do with weird, nonsensical phasing. In fact, the issue is having the opposite effect of making things empty and players not even being able to see other people on their own realms.

[Evilfish]

I'm kinda getting tired of this "RP Community" stuff. Seriously every time Blizzard does something it seems to be killing the RP community. And you know what, I agree with you, but you should have spoken up during the early development phases. Shame the ones that were on the test servers decided to star RP-ing there instead of testing.

[Etamalgren]

Why don't they just make it so Orgrimmar/SW is CRZ-enabled, but it defaults to keeping all players on RP realms on their own realm's version of Orgrimmar/SW unless invited over to another server?

[Orby]

Hasn't roleplaying been dead since TBC? I see the topic come up so many times I didn't even think it was alive :P

[Melkandor]

Sorry, but its not worth a mention.
No one gives a shit about the weird role playing weeboo's.

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WoW is an MMORPG

[Fang7986]

You've misunderstood what this thread is complaining about. It has nothing to do with there being too many players. It has to do with weird, nonsensical phasing. In fact, the issue is having the opposite effect of making things empty and players not even being able to see other people on their own realms.

I don't see how having tourists wandering around and not being able to find someone in a crowd and having Doomsayers screaming the world is going to and then having people disappear mysteriously aren't great for RP

[Melkandor]

The RP is not pronounced, it's silent.

Can't tell if serious or...

Citation please

[Normie]

I'm kinda getting tired of this "RP Community" stuff. Seriously every time Blizzard does something it seems to be killing the RP community. And you know what, I agree with you, but you should have spoken up during the early development phases. Shame the ones that were on the test servers decided to star RP-ing there instead of testing.

You think RPers even got beta invites? There are so many flaws in the reasoning in your comment that I don't even know where to start.

[StationaryHawk]

Why don't they just make it so Orgrimmar/SW is CRZ-enabled, but it defaults to keeping all players on RP realms on their own realm's version of Orgrimmar/SW unless invited over to another server?

Which is how it should work, but does not unfortunately.

[Deleted]

I prefer the game a lot more when I would always see the same players and see members of rival guilds randomly through the world map. you would develop you own rivalries Same or Opposing factions. Now you could have same routine as other player but you probably wont see them more then once a week. The whole cross realm thing is terrible as it doesn't feel like MY server anymore. You could transfer my character to a different realm and I wouldn't notice a difference.

Oh indeed, I still recall our rivalry for dominion over Blackrock Mountain with the Bloodline scumbags on Frostmane-EU during vanilla. For anyone else it might have been terrible when there was a pre raid brawl every night and they got caught up in it, but it still added some extra flavour to the game.

[THEORACLE64]

Sorry, but its not worth a mention.
No one gives a shit about the weird role playing weeboo's.

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Yeah, I mean, it's not like WoW is an mmoRPg.

[Pickynerd]

I love how for years players have been complaining about SW looking empty (even though most of the game content is outside of SW) and now that people are in Sw they are complaining about players being there.

yeah, they should have merged servers, instead of the shit they did.

[FelPlague]

again do we need 5 to 6 threads about this issue? it will be fixed in legion once the area is no longer used by anyone but Rpers pretty much

and that will stop the weird phasing

[Lady Dragonheart]

I do hope that they revise or revert this particular change.

[Gatsbybutters]

again do we need 5 to 6 threads about this issue? it will be fixed in legion once the area is no longer used by anyone but Rpers pretty much

and that will stop the weird phasing

Again, you like the word again a lot, and continue to bump duplicate posts that seem to set your nerd rage off, further fueling your nerd rage. You seem to miss the point of a lot of posts you "contribute" to, mainly because you do not participate in said topic of the post, which means you lack empathy. I do not RP, but can see the major issues these unwarranted, unannounced, and unneeded changes cause. Blizzard implemented a large amount of odd changes in a decade old game, of course people are annoyed.
This pre patch isn't 7.0, it's WoW 2: electric felfire bugaloo, and we wanted to play WoW. We wanted a decent expansion, what we got was a shoddy low budget sequel.

[dexx]

Blizz has gone way overboard with CRZ. It used to make sense with low-pop realms. But lumping everyone in together is counter productive.

[khazmodan]

All they care about is how populated the game looks to new players. They could give a shit about current subscribers because they already have your money.

this is the truth, Blizzard is in panic mode to save the cash cow and they see denial as the solution. This is basic, tickle me elmo marketing with the lie of telling people that everybody wants it and hoping that everybody is too stupid to see through the scam.

[Vichan]

this is the truth, Blizzard is in panic mode to save the cash cow and they see denial as the solution. This is basic, tickle me elmo marketing with the lie of telling people that everybody wants it and hoping that everybody is too stupid to see through the scam.

jesus christ, if you hate blizzard that bad then fucking leave. i'll never understand why people think they have to stay around and bitch and moan if you hate wow and blizzard so bad, move on with your life

[Bapestar]

That is just sad. I was never into RP, but know many people who liked it. Willing to bet RP'ers make up a good chunk of subs.