Cross Server Raids

[FuxieDK]

Will Blizz allow cross server grouping like live?

No.. It have been confirmed more than once.

Only two exceptions from original Vanilla:
1: CRZ enabled in the "first few weeks"
2: Battle.net integration, without cross server grouping.

[nVIDIA]

any change except optional graphic improvement is unacceptable

[FuxieDK]

it's not like Vanilla is coming out this year

Official statement is "Release Summer 2019"...

[Xemioza]

After reading this subforum i can tell this is the most cancerous community i've ever witnessed xd

Good luck lvling on dead realm without cross realm raids :P

[Echocho]

I hope not. Vanilla is about small communities, not impersonal 15 minute zergs.

Not if the private server community have anything to say about it. They want changes to vanilla by using mega servers instead of the authentic realm caps.

[Lochton]

Will Blizz allow cross server grouping like live?

By all demands, sure it shouldn't? I mean, wasn't a thing, and is partially a thing complained about too..

[Gavll]

In my humble opinion, cross server grouping was a big part of what killed the vanilla/community feel. So bringing that into a vanilla relaunch would defeat the purpose of even trying to relaunch vanilla.

QFT. Cross server anything is cancer

- - - Updated - - -

Not if the private server community have anything to say about it. They want changes to vanilla by using mega servers instead of the authentic realm caps.

That depends entirely on which PS community

[dcc626]

All this cross realm shit is half of the reason why the current WoW is pure trash. It doesn't belong in retail and it certainly doesn't belong in Classic.

the problem is the playerbase. not all of it, just the shitty part. so, most of it

[Sencha]

One of the purpose of classic is to restore a sense of server community, so I hope not.

[lonely zergling]

They need to just not have multiple servers.
People are right saying that cross server stuff does not equal an authentic classic feel, but we SERIOUSLY need to stop worrying about that so much so that we aren't willing to examine what will cause problems for the game.

The #1 thing I worry about with Classic is how multiple servers will keep active and engaged player bases.
So many of the people excited for Classic seem to be carrying over the stuff I hated seeing on Private servers, where basically 50 percent of the server was leveling with no intention of serious group made content, and the other half seemed to unlikely to run with anyone other than their guild that as numbers got lower and lower, there was basically no way to get anything done without silly means like paying tanks and what not. This would lead to situations where people would just write off servers with a smaller population as dead, and lead to this unhealthy fixation with population over all instead of actual community as if the ONLY possible way to enjoy Classic was to be on the highest populated realm possible.
Meaning if there are 12 realms, 9+ of them will be ghost towns within 6 months.

This NEEDS to be addressed, because the most important thing about classic was that it was a budding, growing game that needed to be adding new servers and services to keep up with the expanding population.
This changed how the game and its systems worked.

That will NOT be the case in 2019, so we should not be sticking blindly to old plans just to emulate the past.

The easiest solution is 1 server for each region and type.
One PVP, one PVE etc.

Then no mergers will be needed, and no "fresh realms" down the road when people get bored.

No thanks, we dont want to play on servers with 10k players online at same time, thats just not blizz like. Never was. Increasing the natural vanilla server pop caps by that much just destroys the gameplay and feeling of a server and introduces problems like having to alter mob respawn rates.

People who like overcrowded privat server populations or think its how it actually was back then never played original vanilla.

[Armourboy]

No.. It have been confirmed more than once.

Only two exceptions from original Vanilla:
1: CRZ enabled in the "first few weeks"
2: Battle.net integration, without cross server grouping.

CRZ will not be enabled, it was sharding that will be, they are two different things. CRZ takes people from different realms and shoves them together, sharding will take people from your own realm and split them into different instances. Everyone on a sharded realm will be from the same server, unlike with CRZ.

[Kokolums]

My plan is to just wait until realm names are released and then coordinate with the rest of the community to which realm we will be playing on. Not trying to get fucked and choose the realm that happens to have 100 people on it.

I suspect Blizzard will greatly underestimate the popularity of Classic. I don't foresee dead realms. All we know at this time is that vanilla pirate servers were the most popular servers, and they tended to just keep growing relentlessly in population until Blizzard shut them down. The upper bound of growth was never reached on the pirate servers so this could get out of hand pretty quickly. I definitely see Classic surpassing retail in population.

[Drusin]

I suspect Blizzard will greatly underestimate the popularity of Classic. I don't foresee dead realms. All we know at this time is that vanilla pirate servers were the most popular servers, and they tended to just keep growing relentlessly in population until Blizzard shut them down. The upper bound of growth was never reached on the pirate servers so this could get out of hand pretty quickly. I definitely see Classic surpassing retail in population.

Maybe, if the classicers can get past paying a sub fee lol

[voidillusion]

Will Blizz allow cross server grouping like live?

I don't believe they will, i don't believe they should.

- - - Updated - - -

Maybe, if the classicers can get past paying a sub fee lol

The same classicers that have been donating generous amounts to keep some Pservers alive and kicking? I would worry much about that if i were you tbh.

[FuxieDK]

CRZ will not be enabled, it was sharding that will be, they are two different things. CRZ takes people from different realms and shoves them together, sharding will take people from your own realm and split them into different instances. Everyone on a sharded realm will be from the same server, unlike with CRZ.

You are absolutely right, my bad..

But the essence of what I wrote is still correct..

[Armourboy]

You are absolutely right, my bad..

But the essence of what I wrote is still correct..

I knew what you were going for, I just didn't want people running saying Classic is screwed cause of CRZ lol

[crono14]

Will Blizz allow cross server grouping like live?

No they won't. Zero chance of that happening.

[voidillusion]

With suggestions like this popping up all the time it's easy to see how much feedback oriented the game is in it's current form....

[Drusin]

The same classicers that have been donating generous amounts to keep some Pservers alive and kicking? I would worry much about that if i were you tbh.

Nope, not them, the ones that bitch about having to have a sub fee to play what used to be free

[voidillusion]

Nope, not them, the ones that bitch about having to have a sub fee to play what used to be free

Who's bitching? Where are them?