🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 03:46:14 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
<g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

>In message <slrnmrkvmo...@stinky-local.trash.net> 
>  Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:36:17 +0100, Catriona R wrote:
>>>  On 30 Jul 2015 06:34:34 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> >On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:22:01 +0100, Catriona R wrote:
>>> 
>>> >What server did you end up being on?
>>> 
>>>  http://www.classic-wow.org/ - pretty fun for remembering the old days,
>>>  a few minor bugs but nothing gamebreaking so far, phew.
>
>> Wow, I hadn't realised such servers existed (nor would I have expected that
>> Blizzard would tolerate them).
>
>They seem to shut down the ones in the US.

Probably easier for them to do that than to get the European ones
under different laws and the like; I'd imagine it's too much trouble
to be worth it when it comes to a server in another country, running a
10-year-old version of the game, not like it's much threat to the live
servers (anyone who'd play vanilla and unsub from live probably wasn't
happy in live anyway and would've only gone to another game
instead...)

>I played around on a Lich King serve for awhile, but a it turns out
>having a thousand other players on a server *is* useful.
>
>It only lasted about 6 months.

Yeah, most seem completely dead, and I remembered how many group
quests there are in vanilla... this one's quiet, but has about 800
players online at peak times (across both factions), so not totally
dead, at least - I figured people who speak a language I don't know
well is better than no people at all! 

And quiet is far better for me than the pvp realm which recently
launched that has 8k online at the same time - my bf tried that one
(it's what got me interested in the idea of a vanilla realm) and it
was quite simply impossible to do any quests, due to way too many
people and way too few mobs - the faster spawnrates in busy areas was
only added in a later expansion (can't remember which, maybe Cata?).