10g respecs is really not that big of a change. People need to understand that a 10 year old game has certain flaws that need to be adjust to accomodate the lower population compared to retail and the different economy.
Another change I support is BG queueing at innkeepers for people between lvl 10-59, because else lowlvl battlegrounds will be very rare. But nothing has been confirmed about this. But staff already confirmed that either way the queueing mechanic will not be changed for lvl 60 players.
If this puts you off you are just a purist bastard that needs to learn the difference between blizzlike and blizzcopy. You need to open your eyes and think about what is best for the success of the server. The server being x1 is enough to set a large amount of players off, don't get me wrong I support it myself. Leveling and exploring is a big part of vanilla, as it should be. But 90% of characters will quit before they reach level 60, maybe if they would be able to do some battlegrounds they wouldn't get bored so quickly. It might increase faction rivalry increasing world pvp and crossroads/tarren mill raids. Many people want to play vanilla again for it's world pvp because it is simply dead in retail with flying mounts and dungeon finder. As most players here I just want a x1 rate server without gear from vote points or donations with good scripts AND a good population. Take a look at scriptcraft, which was instant 48, which peaked at 2.6k players! We need to provide an experience to people that they stop getting the feeling that they have to get to level cap asap but rather enjoy the ride, that's what they miss about vanilla.
But yea if you really are a born purist nos and vengeance will happily welcome you on their 100 pop server.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. You can join the BG queue discussion
here.
How the hell does Nostalrius have more facebook fans?
I posted this before, but as these numbers seems to deceive a lot of people I'm gonna crunch the social media numbers again:
reddit:
- nostalrius reddit (34 readers) vs kronos (275 readers)
youtube
- nostalrius youtube channel is 4 years and 5 months old generating a total of 69k video views with 61 videos.
- kronos youtube channel is only 10 months old and also generating 70k views but with only 14 videos.
So if kronos would also have 4 times more videos and be 4 times older at the same view ratio they would have 16 times more total views (resulting in a million views!!)
Facebook:
- kronos 948 likes (since July 2014)
- nostalrius 963 likes (since march 2010)
So Nos gathered 15 more likes in 3 extra years, not that impressive I would say. Also a large part of those likes might be from people that don't even play wow anymore while pretty much all likes for the Kronos page are from people anticipating the release.
Nos also likes to boast about how many people suscribed to the newsletter, but you can easily enter more than 2 e-mailadresses on different IPs entered a lot myself actually. Who doesn't enter 2 e-mails right away? Hardly 40% those subs are unique if you ask me.
So we can safely say the hype for Kronos is a lot bigger, and in terms of quality there is little proof of which is best (besides my bias from what I read on the forums here and the issues Nos had with PVP mechanics alone), but Kronos is likely to boast a bigger population and has better equipment and an armory, a database, a boss kill tracker and listens more to the community from what I've seen on Nos.
Anyhow bash mode off, people will choose the server they think suits them best. It's a bit unavoidable that the competition might get bitter.
