So far, I still haven't. In fact, I haven't even logged into a toon there as of writing this on Monday afternoon.*
Oh, I created the toons I wanted back on Thursday, and I even reserved the names for a few TBC Draenei and Sindorei toons, but that's about it.
It's been surprisingly easy to avoid playing on the new servers. Yes, a change to my sleeping habits brought on by my jury duty tenure helped, and we did visit with family over the weekend, but I have gotten on WoW during that time. Just not the Anniversary servers.
Sittin' on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away... |
I can tell there's a distinct amount of emptiness on the Classic Era servers ever since the Anniversary Fresh Servers opened up, but that's fine with me. I discovered I was able to farm Felcloth much more easily than in months because the hardcore farmers have moved on to the Fresh servers, and while the amount of people queueing for Alterac Valley have gone down, when I do get into a Battleground there's a lot more activity going on instead of the Horde's traditional strategy of zerging to the end and killing Vann as quickly as possible.
As for the new servers themselves, I've noted that my little friend group has been exclusively on there since they opened, and given how they always seem to be on whenever I check Battle.Net, my guess is that the main toons are probably around L20 by now.
Do I feel left out? No.
Am I experiencing FOMO because of all of the activity on the fresh servers? A bit, but nothing I can't manage.
Do I want to login to the fresh servers and get going?
Uh... I don't know.
What I do want to do is level at my own pace, without any help, and basically doing it my way. That's what I liked the most in the 2019 release of WoW Classic, and what I missed the most in TBC and Wrath Classic. I have learned over my years of playing is that my leveling playstyle is not what the majority of the WoW player base likes, and I hate being pushed to go faster, whether due to explicit goals being set by a guild/raid team or simply by FOMO.
I mean, have you even read the blog? This is basically a "how to do it" manual of giving the middle finger to the Metagame while still playing the game itself.
So yeah, I'd like to login and play on the new servers, but I will only do it my way. And I don't think I'm ready yet. Maybe later this week, but we'll see.
*Early on Tuesday morning I did get on to move the bank alts over to their permanent locations, but that's been it as far as my involvement there goes.
EtA: Corrected grammar.
For me, the Anniversary servers have no pull. Mostly for the reason I still haven't gotten a Classic Era character character to 60 yet, not even with the boosted xp on the Season servers. I don't need to have even more characters that feel abandoned. :)
ReplyDeleteI'd like to go back and level them, but we'll see how time goes. So much game content I want to play, so little real world time for them all. :sigh:
Era is still more populated than the SoD servers; I logged into the SoD server marked "Full" and discovered that there was nobody in the major cities. A "/who ironforge" and "/who stormwind" showed only a handful of people, compared with over 50 each in the Classic Era East Coast Cluster.
DeleteBasically, SoD's population fell off a cliff once people began treating it like the Seasons in a Retail server: rush to do all the latest things, then stop logging in until new stuff.
By contrast, with no rush in Era at all --despite the stream of ads by chaosboost-- there's still activity there. Even in the starter zones.
Oh, those guys... they're spamming the anniversary realm too. It's possible the major drop you're seeing on SoD will bounce back some after the leveling rush on anniversary is over, and there will be more activity when new content is available. Or more likely most won't be back, like in SoM.
DeleteThat's actually quite funny that they're on the Anniversary servers already. After all, isn't everybody boosting themselves right then?
DeleteI haven't seen their ads on Anniversary (PVE) server recently; maybe I misremembered about where I was, or they are going to be back once they've stolen/botted enough gold to sell again.
DeleteI can confirm that I saw them broadcasting on Trade Chat on the PvE Anniversary server. Weird, if you ask me.
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