After much deliberation, I have begun considering to leave Kronos and move over to any new vanilla server when it eventually comes out. I was wondering if many others are feeling the same?
(Note: It should be obvious I am making fun of the why I am staying on kronos thread. If you haven’t seen it feel free to look here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wowservers/comments/5d8vfh/why_im_staying_on_kronos/)
I have compiled a short list below to explain why, in my opinion, Kronos is an ok choice of private server:
-It is the only decent vanilla private server out, until of course Elysium and Crestfall come out.
-Your server lags to unplayable levels everyday
-Lower level GMs are making comments on the forums that have only inflamed players it makes it seem there is currently zero communication or overall plan for the GMs as a collective.
-Every server has its own scripting problems. Kronos has faced the following issues such as pathing, the warlock dreadsteed quest bugs frequently, summoning people in gryphon often leads them to die, pets still can’t go on boats, Garr used to crash the server if pulled incorrectly, gates closing and locking the raids out at random times in both AQ40 and BWL, Kurinaxx sand blast visually doesn’t appear where the blast is actually being applied, RISE obsidian quest used to be bugged, bosses not dropping loot, all pets bugging and getting random abilities, adds bugging and were only able to be killed with aoe spells, Twin emps bugging and teleporting next to each other, on K2 I heard the Razorgore dragonkin adds have a major issue, none of the kodo escort quests in Desolace working, and many more. Nost had its own issues but so did Kronos.
-Kronos is not in a good place. Half my guild raid logs due to having nothing to do and don’t tell me that there is always something to do they aren’t looking hard enough because I have personally fought for them and find things to do to keep people interested in the server and so have they. I now have doubts whether it’s worth fighting for at all. There's no point for me to fight for our players when the server isn't doing the same for us it’s that simple. You don't seem to understand that players are frustrated and why they are frustrated. You are making it harder on me to do my job because every time we need to do a raid or a 20man and not enough people show up because they no longer care to show up. Entire guilds are dying and claiming they are leaving the server in the coming weeks on K1. I have heard the same for K2 but I don’t know the extent of it.
-If population isn’t a problem then why did you immediately offer a 7x event for K1 when the nost announcement underwent.
-I would GLADLY relevel and do everything again because I really don’t care about my gear, gold, professions, or the current content on release when there is nothing to do with those resources. If you think I’m content with sitting in IF with AQ40 gear then obviously this isn’t the server for me. I care about community and the experience of Vanilla. I will say that content is nice and I’m grateful to have seen AQ40 under Kronos but content isn’t the deciding factor for me it’s the community that I care about. I will also add that refarming MC and BWL isn’t really a big deal at all because we will be doing the same thing on Kronos for ages until Naxx is released. Just because AQ40 is out doesn’t change the fact we are still farming the same content for ages still.
-I don’t want a raid logging guild and if my guild is forced to come to that I am done with Kronos. Mind you that my guild is becoming raid loggers not because that’s the kind of players they are but rather because Kronos has nourished an environment that supports this kind of behavior.
-K1 faction imbalance is ridiculous last I heard it was around 65% ally and 35% horde.
-Complete lack of communication between the GMs and the players. Just tell us you aren’t going to merge anymore so the people fighting for the merge will finally know their answer because to be honest you don’t deserve the care that these players exhibit for this server.
-I don’t think Kronos will ever be RIP but it will be a shade of what it could be.
-I’m also going to add here that the post Shandryn made suggesting K1 players swap to K2 since it’s the higher population server has had an effect on the server already and I am still pissed off about it. That a GM would vocalize their opinion of making K1 players give up their loot to merge with K2 shows an obvious K2 bias. We are your core we played here since the beginning before all this mess. We made your server live despite nost being the server to go to for the longest time. And now we’ve been told that all the effort that the guilds Vanguard, Synced, Risen, Coral, Fierce, Freefall, Onslaught, Agony, etc means absolutely nothing and is expendable for the new K2 server.
-K1 lacks new players to replenish players who leave the server or quit the game. The only new members Risen has gotten in the past couple of months is from other guilds disbanding not from new players leveling to 60 looking for a raiding guild.
That's all I can think of for now, it's just my 2 cents. I'm sure Nostlysium will be fine and Kronos as well, but I understand why so many people are thinking of moving from Kronos.
I am grateful for the vanilla experience the Kronos staff has given me. It has been a fun ride through and through but I really am getting fed up.
(Please don't just delete my post, I am just trying to get some debate going - thanks!)
Lastly the why I’m staying on Kronos thread seems to be written by a GM in my opinion. If you want us to stay give us a reason to stay time is running out and staying silent isn’t going to solve anything. Give it to us straight what your plan is no more fucking winky faces and speculative opinions. If a merge isn’t happening tell us now. If naxx is being released in 6 months or a year tell us now. If there is going to be a BC server tell us now. If the lag is not an issue you care to address tell us now. If your plan is to wait and hope for nostlysium to fail tell us now. We need an official announcement and not a podcast that no one can see anymore because it was deleted or whispers in the wind from random players.