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I play ESO. Seems like I am constantly chatting with people how to do things and how it's different than WoW. I think the big thing that changed over the 4/5 ye

I play ESO. Seems like I am constantly chatting with people how to do things and how it's different than WoW. I think the big thing that changed over the 4/5 years it took to finally break into that audience was stability and content and the sharding system. With how ESO places everyone in a megaserver, a lot of WoW fans actually had to back step from time to time from their originally chosen shard because they would be the only one online. And on top of all that, it's free to play after you buy the base game.

___alt 8y ago
From what I see, Blizzard is slowly rolling out everything they need to eventually get rid of realms entirely as separate technical entities. Cross-realms features are everywhere, the concept of PvP servers is no more, and if they manage to upgrade the auction house system to something more global, realms will be mere namespaces and players will be able to seamlessly play with all other players from their region.
- MrMember 8y ago
  Cross-realm guilds would be a big one. I was in a mythic progression raiding guild during Legion and recruiting was always a mess. I didn't play on one of the "top" servers for raiding and there just weren't enough quality players to go around. You'd have a handful of solid guilds at the top and everyone else would struggle to complete a tier before the next tier came out. And then in the middle of the expansion when player counts drop it got even more difficult to recruit. If you made the mistake of creating all your characters on a "dead" server you'd be looking at several hundred dollars at least to transfer them all. Cross-realm guilds are a long time coming.
  - ___alt 8y ago
    Yes, I didn't mention it in my post because I think the auction house and the underlying economy issues are going to be the hardest part in making everything cross-realm, but cross-realms guilds are highly desirable. Your arguments are on point.
xkgihu7r 8y ago
BfA is absolute crap. I don't know who is to blame, but it really is the worst expansion. WoW does not deserve to die like this. I suspect Blizzard believes the game can't be redeemed so it's in life support. Thankfully, Classic is around the corner.
- ubersoldat2k7 8y ago
  A F2P BR set on WoW, that might do the trick ;-)
  - ___alt 8y ago
    Or Heroes of the Storm BR.
- swarnie_ 8y ago
  I'm sure i can go back to 2007 and find a few posts every expansion proclaiming a new low has been reached. Maybe a game built around grind which withholds content until fixed dates in an effort to stretch the run-time out just isn't as popular as it was 10 years ago. Players have a load more options ("Services") competing for their attention now.
  - trophycase 8y ago
    Vanilla was the pinnacle of questing and total game experience, absolutely no question about that. TBC had a noticeable drop in questing quality that began the descent into the "series of tubes" it is now. Thankfully TBC added arena and great raiding. WoTLK was solid with good raids but Cataclysm was truly atrocious.
- qudat 8y ago
  Currently playing on warmane (private server, wotlk) and having a great time. Not worried about leveling up, just re-living the nostalgia for the game when I played it. I think classic is going to be pretty amazing and I'd consider playing it again. Although, I'm not entirely sure there's a point when private servers are doing it and for free.
- 8y ago

___alt 8y ago

From what I see, Blizzard is slowly rolling out everything they need to eventually get rid of realms entirely as separate technical entities. Cross-realms features are everywhere, the concept of PvP servers is no more, and if they manage to upgrade the auction house system to something more global, realms will be mere namespaces and players will be able to seamlessly play with all other players from their region.

MrMember 8y ago
Cross-realm guilds would be a big one. I was in a mythic progression raiding guild during Legion and recruiting was always a mess. I didn't play on one of the "top" servers for raiding and there just weren't enough quality players to go around. You'd have a handful of solid guilds at the top and everyone else would struggle to complete a tier before the next tier came out. And then in the middle of the expansion when player counts drop it got even more difficult to recruit. If you made the mistake of creating all your characters on a "dead" server you'd be looking at several hundred dollars at least to transfer them all. Cross-realm guilds are a long time coming.
- ___alt 8y ago
  Yes, I didn't mention it in my post because I think the auction house and the underlying economy issues are going to be the hardest part in making everything cross-realm, but cross-realms guilds are highly desirable. Your arguments are on point.

xkgihu7r 8y ago

BfA is absolute crap. I don't know who is to blame, but it really is the worst expansion. WoW does not deserve to die like this. I suspect Blizzard believes the game can't be redeemed so it's in life support. Thankfully, Classic is around the corner.

ubersoldat2k7 8y ago
A F2P BR set on WoW, that might do the trick ;-)
- ___alt 8y ago
  Or Heroes of the Storm BR.
swarnie_ 8y ago
I'm sure i can go back to 2007 and find a few posts every expansion proclaiming a new low has been reached. Maybe a game built around grind which withholds content until fixed dates in an effort to stretch the run-time out just isn't as popular as it was 10 years ago. Players have a load more options ("Services") competing for their attention now.
- trophycase 8y ago
  Vanilla was the pinnacle of questing and total game experience, absolutely no question about that. TBC had a noticeable drop in questing quality that began the descent into the "series of tubes" it is now. Thankfully TBC added arena and great raiding. WoTLK was solid with good raids but Cataclysm was truly atrocious.
qudat 8y ago
Currently playing on warmane (private server, wotlk) and having a great time. Not worried about leveling up, just re-living the nostalgia for the game when I played it. I think classic is going to be pretty amazing and I'd consider playing it again. Although, I'm not entirely sure there's a point when private servers are doing it and for free.
8y ago