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doing their own thing as they always had and that the active population on the anniversary servers had shrunk the former wasn t a surprise to me at all since everybody in our friends group has their own goals and are currently pursuing them but the latter was after a few weeks of upwards of 20 layers worth of active players on the anniversary servers we were down to 9 or 10 layers over this past weekend the layers as of 6 51 server time on dreamscythe us on march 16 2026 now admittedly i m not sure if people in instances count against layers but given that players were chain running 5 person instances once the dark portal opened i really doubt there d be much of a change in population simply because karazhan gruul s lair and magtheridon s lair had opened up i think what is currently happening is that people either burned out rushing to l70 and getting attuned as quickly as possible or that people are merely raid logging because they can i haven t been to outland yet but given that the main hub there shattrath city is connected to the other major cities via trade chat i know that people haven t been pulling out the i m bored complaint as is often found in mmos so i suspect it s merely raid logging for now well i m refreshed and i m back to doing the same thing i had been doing which was leveling briganaa 2 0 and to a lesser extent my blood elf pair of toons if the in game population of the anniversary servers continues to decline by the time i reach outland i will have the place to myself as everybody will be raid logging and not doing much else i won t know for certain until i get there but i expect that the people running tbc 5 person instances will have dried up just like in 2021 victims of burnout due to following the meta to be honest that would suit me just fine i don t need the crowds and i m happy doing what i should have done 5 years ago live and learn i guess i m quite familiar with how fomo is used to make people play and purchase in game currency with my limited experience with mobile games there was a mobile game whose name escapes me now that i played via pc that i simply refused to purchase anything for but the psychological tricks utilized to try to entice me to purchase currency to buy better items for defense gradually ratcheted up to the point where i simply had to walk away or i knew i d have broken down and bought stuff just to try to keep up with other players i m sure my castle or city is a smoking ruin right now years later because of other players who ran roughshod over it in the intervening time but it was incredibly hard to both walk away and not buy things to improve my standing in the game and that was 2014 2015 mobile games have gotten much worse in that regard in the past decade yes i had my blogger friends and you know who you are but except for the rare direct interaction we didn t play wow together vidyala once offered me a spot in her guild but as i was quite aware that she d be making an exception for me as a non raider i turned it down i didn t feel it was right for the rules to be bent just because she and i knew each other outside of the game itself posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels memes operation spread the love wow classic anniversary monday march 16 2026 meme monday taking a break memes in 2026 all in all i took over 8 days off from mmos it was very much needed and gave me the chance to recharge a bit it may sound funny saying so because a video game ought to be fun but try telling that to people who are on progression raid teams oh the participants may claim it s fun but the effort it takes to do raiding and or retail esque mythic plus dungeon runs is not a trivial enterprise for some people leveling another alt is the break from facebook s warcraft memes group yeah this is not unheard of in wow from reddit and twitter to some people this is how they get breaks from mmos from meme arsenal it goes without saying that everybody needs a break from time to time whether or not oprah is the provider from twitter and webengage ha i m probably going to be struck by lightning for this one from reddit see taking a break is a good thing and should be encouraged from memedroid posted by redbeard at 6 00 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes wednesday march 11 2026 this ll be your big chance to get away from it all outside of checking out a few cities in retail as seen in the previous post i took the past several days off from playing wow i d like to say that i had projects that had priority over any video game playing but that wasn t the case i simply didn t feel like logging in and playing on my alliance toons i did check the bank alts a couple of times to make sure i wasn t losing anything via in game mail but beyond that i didn t do much this is but one page of my junk mail this sort of break is a necessary part of any endeavor and because i have no external pressure to complete anything in game i can take as many breaks as i need this was something i sorely missed in 2021 and i fully intend to take advantage of my lack of commitment right now so what have i been doing thinking about this no this is not my house from a reviewer at the home depot s website yes it s creeping toward gardening season and i ve already obtained some seeds for this year and this year i m actually going to put in a couple of raised beds in the backyard so i can plant a vegetable garden in the yard the first one since the mini reds were little here s to hoping the deer won t be that hungry outside of that i ve just been taking a mental break goofing around doing this and that and catching up on some of my writing by the time this posts i might be back into wow but whether or not isn t that great of a concern what s important is that i enjoy what i m doing if you re like me and have far too much accumulated junk for a bank alt or two you just move stuff around via in game mail in wow at least you have 30 days before the mail and attachments returns to the sender and then 30 days it can sit in the sender s inbox before it s automatically removed so if you keep up with juggling in game mail you can move a ton of stuff around relatively speaking of course my friends group would want me to get to outland and level faster it s not quite so overt right now but it s one of those generally understood things but i m being my contrarian self right now and am actively resisting that posted by redbeard at 7 30 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels hobbies musings retail self wow classic anniversary tuesday march 10 2026 some more exploration i suspect that i m the sort of player that blizzard likes to pretend doesn t exist or if we do exist my sort of player is in such few numbers that they don t pop up on their activity data in a meaningful way i mean i prefer visiting this place in retail i think there might have been a toon or two around here but i didn t poke my nose into the bank area so wasn t certain or this place running around on march 8 2026 i was literally the only player here or this place nobody here either here s the screenshot that shows i was in the cataclysm version of theramore not the mists or later version those tanks only appeared in cata and if you got through mists and the event there s just rubble here i think i never did it there were some new toons i saw at the place shown below however which is to be expected given that blood elves got an uh extreme makeover for this expac but this version of falcon watch is one of my favorite spots in eversong right next to fairbreeze village if you re like me you can still visit the old be areas all you want without ever having to think about anything post 2007 i had to manually accept the catch up dragonflight quest so i could hide it from my screen you simply can t hide it any other way and i finally figured out how to turn off the you have to select a combat specialization persistent pop up hint it s buried in the tutorial settings now i can sightsee without the constant prodding to go and progress level up or just do something other than what i m currently doing if there s a reason why i m reluctant to go to outland in the anniversary edition of tbc classic it s the constant prodding to do your dailies once you reach max level not by the game itself per se but by everybody else in the game and once quel danas opens up in probably september or october there will likely be people loudly banging a drum to do the quel danas dailies to unlock more content wherever you go it s as if in the carrot vs stick argument on how to get people to do things blizzard prefers using the carrot while the player base uses the stick this expac sized phasing in various locales which is what it really is when you break it down demonstrates that blizzard could bring back the pre cataclysm old world into retail if they decided to make an effort at it they wouldn t get the classic crowd to return to retail because the elephant in the room is that the classic crowd prefers the gameplay of pre cataclysm wow so the only people a pre cata restoration would service are those retail players who want to go back to see the early days without losing all of the conveniences and gameplay of retail wow and as my explorations demonstrate there s almost nobody in retail who s interested in the old world anyway this does make me wonder just how much longer some of these old zones will remain active and visitable all the processing power and storage involved in these areas that nobody visits do cost the blizzard division of microsoft a certain amount of money and if push came to shove i could see blizzard deciding as a cost cutting measure just going ahead and archiving these old zones to be spun up when they put on a special limited time event i can t keep these areas alive just by 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