Development Roadmap 2024-2025

[Bigsmerf]

I think it will be none of this.

Not another fresh. You saw how quick Tel'abim fresh died. Let's not make the same mistake.

dead server...

Wow, a whole raid group! This place must be really lively, huh?

[Drubarrymooer]

Not another fresh. You saw how quick Tel'abim fresh died. Let's not make the same mistake.

dead server...

Wow, a whole raid group! This place must be really lively, huh?

There's a pretty consistent ~200 players online. That's not dead. Ppl just like to complain that it went from a few thousand to a few hundred right as sod launched. It's far from dead though.

[Majestik51]

its dead now, it became even xfaction server, ppl assist each other. disgusting.....
only the great kor krons keepin it still alive.

[Typh1]

Personally I just log for raids. In between nothing else to do. World is empty, bg’s AB 4v4 and it’s super lame. So much for a pvp server

[Deso5618]

I can only guess, but contested areas in one of updates is an change to Nordanaar.

[Codymb24]

Imo Tel'Abim died because it's a PVP server.

Um no. Sod did that

[Allwynd01]

Imo Tel'Abim died because it's a PVP server.

Um no. Sod did that

I'm pretty sure Season of Discovery didn't cause the drop in players on Tel'Abim, it was the PvP itself. Season of Discovery was a letdown - a very generic and uninspired way by Microsoft-Activision to attempt a Vanilla+. About 2 weeks after it released, everyone stopped talking about it. Now it's dead.

People who asked for a PvP server finally got their wish granted and soon after realized that a PvP server is just not that fun as they imagined so they went back to the PvE server instead. I know it, because in 2019 when Classic launched, I stated playing there on a PvP server thinking I will recreate the old school experience, one time a high level Warlock from the enemy faction kept killing me over and over and corpse camping me until I was forced to stop playing for 1 hour until he gets bored and moves on. Then I realized how frustrating PvP is - high level enemy players can kill you and you can't do anything about it, you either have to let it go, or go crazy and make a hit list of everyone that killed you then level up, gear up and go hunt them down like you have the time, because you are unemployed IRL.

I can bet 90% of the WoW players on all servers are 30-50 years old at this point and the ones that turned out OK have jobs and IRL responsibilities so they don't have the time to spend what little game time they have to feel miserable and frustrated on a PvP server. That worked when we were 15 year old high school kids with tons of free time.