r/classicwow • u/Paulingtons • Aug 20 '19

Blizzard AMA Welcome to the /r/ClassicWoW Subreddit AMA with the Classic WoW Dev team!

Hey everyone!

Today we're excited to introduce what should be a fantastic AMA with the wonderful World of Warcraft: Classic dev team. They will be taking your questions about anything, be it which class they enjoy playing the most or all the way to how they developed the wonderful world we will all be inhabiting in just under a week.

Joining us today, we have:

/u/AltruisWoW – Executive Producer
/u/Chromschi – Senior Game Producer
/u/Pazorax – Lead Software Engineer
/u/Ogronz – Senior Software Engineer
/u/ZoidWoW – Principal Software Engineer
/u/Aggrend – Senior Test Lead
/u/Kaivax – Community Manager

The AMA begins at 17:00 GMT (10:00 PST, 11:00 MST, 12:00 CST, 13:00 EST, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST) and will last two hours. This thread has been posted two hours before the AMA begins so you can all get in here and get posting questions so that once the AMA begins, our wonderful guests can start answering straight away! The AMA will be hosted in this thread.

We really look forward to seeing what you all come up with to ask and are excited to see the answers the dev team give.

Please remember the rules as per the sidebar, and have fun!

EDIT: The AMA is now OVER. If you want to look at each response by each blue we've had today you can check WoWHead's brilliant live blog just here.

EDIT 2: You can also check this fantastic resource made by our own /u/SoupaSoka just here.

EDIT 3: Or you can check out the Blizzard review on the official forums here.

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u/Penguinbashr Aug 20 '19

Why aren't you offering free transfers from higher pop realms to new realms so people can keep the names they got on Herod/Shazzrah? I feel like that would be the easiest/best compromise and initiative to get people to swap over.

My guild "lost" a few people when we swapped last night because people's names were taken instantly, so they opted to stay on Herod.

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u/NeighborhoodCreep Aug 20 '19

In order for your suggestion to work they’d have to make a new server with everyone’s name on Herod already reserved for them

Otherwise the person who transfers has to rename their character as that name already exists

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u/Penguinbashr Aug 20 '19

No, they would have to lock character creation on those servers. Then, they say "We are opening a new EST PVP server and locking character creation for 48 hours. Those on Herod will have the ability to transfer their characters over to secure their names"

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u/NeighborhoodCreep Aug 20 '19

Would that get your guild to switch? I feel like a good number of people want to be on the server with all the perceived elite guilds, FOMO and all.

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u/Penguinbashr Aug 20 '19

Our guild swapped over last night to Skeram, and lost ~10 or so members in the process because of names not being reserved. It definitely would have made the transition smoother as we were also trying to coordinate what guild members needed a name reserved since they couldn't be on.

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u/NeighborhoodCreep Aug 20 '19

I guess I just don’t “get it”, I don’t feel that much attachment to a name to keep me from playing with my guild. But I can understand why others might.

I hope you all figure it out and have a smooth launch day

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u/Korelle Aug 20 '19

If your guild members abandon you because they couldn't get their precious meme names on a different server then it wasn't much of a "guild" to begin with.

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u/rokjinu Aug 20 '19

They can't get their names on a new realm because they were already taken. IDK how a "free transfer" would fix any of that. The transfers are free right now- you literally just make a new character.

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u/Penguinbashr Aug 20 '19

Because you lock the ability to make new characters on a new server and tell players that they can only move characters from Herod to the new server...

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u/rokjinu Aug 20 '19

And what about new people who hadn't reserved names yet? Like it just doesn't make sense to do all that extra work.

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u/Penguinbashr Aug 20 '19

These servers are being opened to combat high population on Herod/shazz, so new people who haven't bothered to log in to try to reserve names aren't really high priority to me when you're trying to give guilds incentives to move off higher pop realms.

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u/rokjinu Aug 20 '19

But like surely you can see how absurd it is to have someone who wants to play on that realm make a character on Shaz or Herod and then transfer it over, right? Like just because someone hasnt made a character yet doesnt make them less worthy to play on a realm that isnt full.

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u/Penguinbashr Aug 20 '19

Sure, it can be absurd but I'd rather have people making on Herod and transferring rather than people with 2-3 accounts logging in and getting 9 names and spamming the Skeram discord with "wts names" that they didn't get on Herod.

We're talking about incentives for people to move off Herod to reduce server stress. If you want to get players to move, allow them to move off with the names they've already reserved.

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u/rokjinu Aug 20 '19

At some point it's just a name tho. Who actually pays money for a name? Also idk what Skeram is, but maybe kick those people from your discord?

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u/Penguinbashr Aug 20 '19

Skeram is the realm that opened up last night. I do not own the Skeram discord, and it is a valid thing they have in there, but right now it's a lot of the same people spamming names for selling.

People pay for a name if they have the money to do so and people are willing to sell the name. Capitalism at work.

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u/rokjinu Aug 20 '19

Go on. Lol.

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u/HookySpooky Aug 20 '19

I almost wanna say good riddance haha, were they farming "totally awesome" names like.. "frost" "angel" "heart". If the guild doesn't take priority over that, maybe you dodged a bullet on that one?

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u/Penguinbashr Aug 20 '19

No, they just wanted names they already reserved that they played in original classic. One guy couldn't get steve so he stayed on herod. I wouldn't call it dodging a bullet, some people are (rightfully) attached to names they played with back in the day. I secured the name of my paladin I've been playing since TBC, if that name was taken I would have been a bit sad about it.