Drain

They always get a small spike on expansions because people will resub for the new content, play for a few months, then promptly quit again. There's no longevity anymore. In the past, just getting to max level could take someone a month, then a few weeks just to gear for raiding, then months in the first raid tier. Now, the entire game itself is cleared and done in less time than we used to spend just getting to max level. You'd think more levels would take longer, and it should, but it actually takes far less to get all the levels now, than it did in the past. It has gotten worse every expansion, because with each one comes another XP cut from 1-max, on top of all the talent tree buffs, dungeon nerfs, heirlooms, and so on.

Roll on whatever one you want. It doesn't matter which one releases first. I don't know why people are getting upset over this. What difference does it make if you're first or not? You on your death bed trying to enjoy as much Classic WoW as possible before the bitter end? If that's the case, you may as well just roll on whatever is available right now, and not be worried about a future release.

Every expansion is doomed to fail because they're not willing, nor even trying, to undo the damages done by the previous ones. That train is only going 1 direction, even if it's already derailed off a cliff a long time ago. We didn't suddenly need older versions now with Legion. We've needed them since the launch of Cata, which ваууed the game for good. Cata was when the game was taken totally beyond repair, with the devs going full speed ahead in the complete opposite direction from what the game was originally meant to be, and should have stayed as.

Elysium is hosted in the same country with the same ISP as Nost was. This means the ping and DDOS protection should more or less be the same. It's going to come down to the server hardware and whether or not they can handle the playerload.

There's no reason for a fresh PVE because the first one never got large enough. It shouldn't be made just so you can race for "firsts" on it. If you cared about that, you could have rolled on Nost when it launched in the first place. What we do need is a new PVP with transfers to it, because 15k online is miserable. I'd transfer all my toons in a day if I noticed the new one is a hell of lot smaller than the old one. We honestly should have a queue lock, because WoW was never designed to house so many players on a single realm. Even 7k would have been sufficient. I would love for Elysium to cap this at 7k then open up transfers to a new realm. If it caps too... then open up another one after that. 15k cluttered on a single realm=фекал, and Nost never cared about it because they wanted to wank and gloat over how high they could get, ignoring the fact that such an excessive population hurt the game.

Like anyone else I've ever seen asking for this to be nerfed or removed, you haven't suggested anything better to replace it with. It serves an important purpose in the game, and unless you have a better idea to accomplish what it does; the answer should be no. But people who only care about themselves don't bother to wonder why a mechanic is there in the first place; they see it only as an inconvenience and thus removing it could only be good. It's this kind of logic that has turned the game into what it is today.

With Nost refuges coming back with restored accounts; it's going to get busy around here soon. I just hope the server finally puts in a pop cap, unlike Nost, who left it to suffer no matter how big it got. We need a queue cap at 7k, with transfers to a newer realm for the rest.

I was concerned about this myself. I don't even remember the passwords I put on my 2 Nost accounts back when Nost went bust. After it did shutdown we could no longer access the accounts. I hope I can send myself password resets to get my accounts back over here. I still use the same email. The thing is though, that I have another separate Valkyrie account with the same account name as one of my Nostalrius ones, and on the same address. So this is going to get confusing. People with accounts on both are going to have name/address conflicts. How is this going to be handled?