In WoW Classic, Blizzard announced the opening of a second German PvP server, Venoxis. However, this has led to an interesting discussion in the community in the WoW Forum: some fear a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy of a tipping server.
This is the situation: Initially, the German-speaking community was not supposed to get its own server for WoW Classic. However, the German players protested so loudly that Blizzard relented and provided two servers: one for PvE (Everlook) and one for PvP (Lucifron).
After the name reservation, they were already so full that Blizzard had to react and brought new servers, including the 2nd German PvP server Venoxis.
To switch or to stay?
This is the discussion about new servers: Even though players had long demanded that more WoW Classic servers come to Germany, the enthusiasm for the two new servers is subdued.
In the German forum of WoW Classic, there are discussions about who really switches, as Blizzard wishes:
- Players fear switching to this “new server” only for it to quickly become deserted if the initial hype around WoW Classic dies down.
- Other fans of WoW Classic have already settled on the server Lucifron, reserving their names and coordinating with their community.
- Some say, however, that they will switch – they don’t like large servers anyway, and on the new server, they would likely be rid of the competitive players.
- Others say: I’ll wait and see how the rush looks. If there really are long queues, I will switch – but I don’t want to rush into anything.
Does a server’s balance tip?
This is the specific problem with Venoxis: With the opening of a second German PvP server with Venoxis, a new problem has arisen in WoW Classic: the faction balance on the servers is now important.
Some players fear that a server may “tip”, and if Lucifron has more players on the Horde side than on the Alliance side, playing as an Alliance character would be difficult.
The danger exists that a “tipping German server” could lead to players of the losing Alliance switching to the 2nd server, which could then also tip, in the other direction.
In the retail version of WoW, 7 of the 8 largest German servers were “tipped” in 2014:
- Blackhand, Blackrock, Eredar, Thrall, and Forstwolf were considered distinctly “Horde-friendly”.
- Antonidas and Aegwynn were “Alliance-friendly”.
- Only Blackmoore was somewhat balanced back then.
Blizzard was able to counter this tipping later by clustering.
Due to the existence of 2 German PvP servers now, the danger has arisen that the faction balance may fall out of equilibrium. Some players are therefore observing how surveys turn out. They are trying to recognize a trend regarding whether there will be more Horde or Alliance on one server.
Others criticize this. They believe it’s a “self-fulfilling prophecy” if one declares a server to be a Horde server just because there are slightly more Horde players, then it will become one.
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