Goblins+Worgen=Separating Population mechanic

#0 - Oct. 7, 2009, 12:06 a.m.

Just thinking about it; Goblins and Worgen aren't actually adding much new in on their own like Death Knights did; both take existing models, use existing class abilities, and get a bit of prettying up in terms of a starting area w/quests and such. But there's no real "point" to them.

Loony theory here, or maybe not-so-loony: Blizzard lamented bringing everyone and their uncle to Hellfire peninsula at the start of TBC. They tried to separate us into other places in Northrend and servers still had trouble, there weren't enough quest mobs, etc.

So...are Goblins+Worgen a clever tactic to further separate out where the population is on servers on launch week?

Bornakk

#6 - Oct. 7, 2009, 12:13 a.m.

Q u o t e:
Just thinking about it; Goblins and Worgen aren't actually adding much new in on their own like Death Knights did; both take existing models, use existing class abilities, and get a bit of prettying up in terms of a starting area w/quests and such. But there's no real "point" to them.

Loony theory here, or maybe not-so-loony: Blizzard lamented bringing everyone and their uncle to Hellfire peninsula at the start of TBC. They tried to separate us into other places in Northrend and servers still had trouble, there weren't enough quest mobs, etc.

So...are Goblins+Worgen a clever tactic to further separate out where the population is on servers on launch week?

We kind of learned the lesson with Hellfire Peninsula and that was why we made two "starting" zones for Northrend to help spread players out. The new races will help in this too, kind of like how a bunch of people went straight to making a deathknight, but that isn't the primary goal of adding the new races.

Bornakk

#27 - Oct. 7, 2009, 1:22 a.m.

Q u o t e:

Can we get any confirmation on race change restrictions besides Goblin/Worgen.

(example: human hunter)

Throw me a bone here, my will to play anything else has died. However! If I could start leveling a hunter now and flip over to human, well that will keep my VISA plugged into your system instead of taking a break till the xpac! =P

Unfortunately the only answer we have is the same one I have given to this question. We won't know for sure until we are much closer to the launch of the next expansion. We will probably want to see how the system (that isn't out yet) works out and then figure things out for the expansion. I would guess that transfers would be available at some point but probably not right away.

Bornakk

#31 - Oct. 7, 2009, 1:52 a.m.

Q u o t e:

On the topic of Race Change(And no, this isn't about release date). Why was the button placed on Account Management when it clearly wasn't ready anytime soon? I mean that button alone has caused a lot of the "Race Change" spam threads.

But it will be ready soon. It just depends on your definition. ;-)