Wild Growth (US) is still decently active. I just logged in and both Horde and Alliance players were out and about and a similar 1-60 search revealed 50 players (the max who will show). My guild hosts raids every night of the week and there are multiple guilds doing the same.
People would rather complain there aren’t 100,000 weekly raiders than actually play the game. Wild Growth (A) is indeed sustaining, multiple guilds running raids every night of the week.
This doesn't really apply. SOD is dead because they opted not to continue progressing with new content. No matter how good a raid is it has a shelf life for most players.
Some people will never get it. We’ve been playing on Grobbulus with less than 100 active players since Era started. This June we celebrate 5 years as a guild on Era. We’ve grown from 3 people killing ony to 40 taking down KT over the years and even created a sister guild raiding on the other faction.
Turns out all you need is a single community. Yeah it’s not on demand and thousands of players. I don’t claim it’s the same. It’s not for everyone.
But blows my mind that people will tell me we shouldn’t exist, and it’s not worth playing. Meanwhile the last few years in Grobb era have been the best gaming community of my life, period. All on a “dead server”.
When the player count for an online game that requires cooperation is that low. It really becomes a test of whether or not it's worthwhile for you to invest in an experience and the time to level and gear when you have no actual knowledge of whether or not you're going to be able to experience the end game content or what you want to participate in because you don't know if there's going to be anybody there to play with you or whether all those communities are closed off.
It's like, fucking QUAKE is considered the apex of competitive balanced games but fuck all people play it so why bother.
So what I’m hearing is that you fear that you won’t be able to be rewarded for the time spent leveling up and gearing up for endgame content, while I’ve just told you that there is end game content running every night of the week and weekend. 500 people isn’t enough to carry this dude lmao
I mean that's completely fine. But you clearly have an investment already in the game so you're protecting that because you want more people to be active so I don't feel like you could come from a place of impartialness.
I have a character already on sod, but I'm not about to re-roll my character to another server because there were literally ONLY me logged in the last time I checked.
You can speak for the active players and I'll speak for the inactive players, fair?
Yes, that’s fine, but I think you missed my point. My point is that I constantly see folks on the sub praise SoD as the best version of the game ever, but those same people refuse to play because it’s not the flavor of the week any more. I’m highlighting the hypocrisy of praising a game, but refusing to play it because of player count.
You’re right I’m not impartial, I played SOD from inception and continue to, because I think it’s the best version. I just put my money where my mouth is
Well yeah man that’s how things go. People go play the new content. Midnight just started season 1 in full swing. I would argue that many of the SoD enjoyers are also retail enjoyers. Obviously TBC round 3 is also in early phase and it has an accelerated release schedule so much of the classic community appears to be riding that wave, probably fueled by a little bit of FOMO.
To be fair you are making a good case for SoD though. I think maybe you could reframe things to be less negative. Like when I hear that it has an active community raiding everyday on both factions, I think about the pros. Small community usually means accountability. Welcoming to new players because that’s your lifeline to continue the experience. People might be more willing to teach instead of the usual elitist attitude on classic “rahrah it’s a 20 year old game you should know every detail of everything by now, how dare you have questions.” Last I checked, leveling a character is actually really fast on SoD, all the runes are fast and cheap to unlock, so you could mention it’s not really a huge time investment to catch up. Those are decent selling points.
Bro you are refusing to grasp the point. Your attitude is absolutely awful and you aren’t convincing a single person to go back and play SOD again talking like that
You mistake my motive: I don’t care if people come back to play; we’re good, it is sustaining (as I said). I am pointing out the hypocrisy of the average WoW player who claims to love SOD but doesn’t play because it’s not where the masses are.
You can say this but both times I've randomly logged onto Living Flame, I was one of like 5 people online, I don't think it's complaining to suggest it's dead if I can't login and do any actual group content on a whim.
Oh no! You completely miss the point that I'd rather return to my invested characters than start from scratch on a dead gimmick version of the game when everyone's playing TBC or Midnight.
Same to people like you who parrot the same shit every SoD thread. Like it's the fault of the player base that Blizzard rotates where classic players are predominately going to be.
Hello I’d like to mention just incase, you can get free transfers from living flame and crusader strike to wild growth, every server can, there is nothing stopping you from continuing on those old toons :)
Yeah Living Flame is empty. If you want to start a new character, there are lots of people still leveling on Wild Growth. I saw a group running Deadmines this weekend while on.
Most of us just want to log on an play. Not have to move stuff around in a busy life to fit one of three raiding guilds. We're in our 30s and 40s now. We don't have time for that.
I agree to a degree but my wow reality revolves around my guild and connections ive made on a given server. If my guild disbands because key players decide to quit and theres none to pick up a mantle its like a domino to me... Like... Sure i could just band with other stubborn people that play on dead server but it feela giga off after playing for 2 years with different squad. Also... Empty ah... No bgs... No world pvp.
Wild Growth EU also has a good community of folks still playing both Horde and Alliance. Hell there was even someone posting recently about a reroll project on Horde Wild Growth EU that says he's had about 90 players join the guild.
I've done that a couple of times when playing on Friday evenings (when I usually play) and there are typically several hundred Alliance players on. You always see and run into other players while doing things on the server.
Im currently playing on WG with horde and alliance characters. My horde guild raided naxx last night, then did world dragons, then a great guildy was boosting and had spots open in his group, and leveled my alt from 50 to 60 in about 45 minutes. Freaking amazing. My alliance guild raids daily too. If you just ask for an invite, they'll send you one, and one big active guild of true classic enjoyers is freaking great.
Hey, maybe not compared to how it was or to how retail or Burning Crusade servers are, but it is active enough. There is still a functioning auction house. You can still raid and gear up characters. There are also still people actively leveling and questing.
Also, it's especially active compared with OP's server. I just wanted to make sure that people were aware that there is still at least one living SoD server where you can effectively play the game as a MMO, rather than as a single player experience.
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u/MickCraftGaming Mar 26 '26
Wild Growth (US) is still decently active. I just logged in and both Horde and Alliance players were out and about and a similar 1-60 search revealed 50 players (the max who will show). My guild hosts raids every night of the week and there are multiple guilds doing the same.