How long will the popularity last?

[Mikrob]

I think its save to say one year. I mean Lordaeron gonna be very popular for long time if they dont **** it up. I really like the poll thing ( community vote for almost everything )
You need also remmember one very important thing ( i write based on my friends ) wayyyyy more players wanna play here, but they wait for TBC/WOTLK content, not every one like vanilla . So they simple exp slow to be ready for "expansion' or didint even create character , but they will like two weeks before TBC/WOTLK .

Mark my words , there gonna be ques on Lordaeron , even with 6.5k population cap.

I actually agree with you, I also think the popularity will be even higher as those expansions come closer. I really wonder what they plan on doing with TBC though, considering hellfire penisula is going to be a battlefield full of death, I imagine the GM's porting around, perhaps streaming this massive amount of PvP going on, thousands of people in one big battle!

In either way, yeah the popularity will be steady and I hope the players on the server would manner up towards the staff and appreciate the work that is put in because global is going insane at times, sure I ignore but it is still sad to see but it's also easy to ignore because here they sit anyways, because there is no better server out there and that itself is one juicy reward. In my opinion of course!

[Talosmw]

The hype is too much and many of the guys who've done the grinding on x1 realms in the past would come back mostly for "nostalgia" factor and that thing tends to run out sooner than later.

Only time will tell which one would be the popular realm when all the 3 wotlk realms stand at same expansion (with same cores). But my experience with private servers tells me that the choice for most ppl would be going for a medium to high rate realm.

However, if the realms are on different core (less/more number of bugs) than it'd be wiser to go for the most bug free realm and here's where lies my question from before. Are we going to see the same core with less bugs and better scripting on x7 x14 realms? If yes, then it's exciting future for me on a high rate realm.

The only reason I might continue to play lordaeron is to see the end game wotlk bug free fully scripted raids, which sadly I never saw on molten but I did on some other servers and always wondered why is it hard for molten to not give the same experience. Not a fan of grinding my way or as most of you put it "experiencing" the real wow. No offence to anyone but I'd rather spend time doing a well scripted fully working raid with the guild rather then grind my way and experience it all, coz, I've done that before.

The staff has truly done some very good work with Lordaeron but this only reminds me of the launch of first cata realm. Every new realm gets all the love and the old ones get forgotten on the way. If there are thousands of people who "would" love to play on x1 realm then there are thousands of them "already" playing x7 realm too. Why not get the other cores updated and bugfree with same dedication and enthusiasm? Would'nt that make Molten stand apart and be the best?

[LordBeren]

If the question is about time, it should last long at least as we're planning to release content gradually. The ultimate cause deciding Lordaeron's long-term population will be based on whether we manage to keep the first impression up as we progress to the end-game in classic, the Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, which will be very challenging but we're up to the task.

Naturally first days and weeks will be rough as people may encounter new end-game issues that staff hasn't been able to notice during internal tests, but how fast and how well we resolve those issues is what will be most important. Lordaeron's population must reflect what it deserves as a realm.

I played Lordaeron pre-moltdown, after which I restarted on Ragnaros due to no Lordaeron.
When new Lordaeron was launched I quickly started a toon and started playing.
To date my impression is, in one word, AWESOME.
When the biggest gripe you have is something as small as the combat bug or that sometimes looting an item gets gridlocked ("that item is already in use"), then you know you have a winner. I have so far not come across a quest that doesn't work, including many that I know were/are bugged on the other realms.
Stability and latency are great too. Loving the pathfinding feature for mobs/pets too. I already have three toons around level 20 from three different races so I have seen quite a breadth of areas so far, all quests have worked. Respawn rates on some quest items caused some crowding, not uncommon to see 15 people waiting for an item to respawn lol.

All that said, I am convinced that as long as the coming end-game content works as well as things do now there is no chance this realm will die off.
I believe people will understand what a true gem Lordaeron has become, I truly feel that there is no point in looking elsewhere for a better experience.
My heartfelt thanks to the Warmane crew for bringing this to life, long may it continue!

[Vixen]

I can't be bothered to read all this, sorry xD

IMO the realm will die after they stop fixing bugs.
You can't just say "ok, we're done", because new issues pop up all the time, like on the old WotLK realms > bosses, achievements, quests that worked fine 3 years ago are now bugged... how the ****, IDK.

Now it's cool, because you report a bug and after a few hours they update its status to "confirmed" or whatever, whereas on the old WotLK some game breaking bugs were left "unconfirmed" for months - if was so frustrating. Like constantly-broken VDW for example, just thinking about this boss makes cringe, my guild found a way of healing her in like 3 sec. and we didn't care - we were ready to quit molten at that point ;c

WotLK is the best WoW expansion and it always will be popular, Lord can stay at steady 2-3K online for years, if they don't abandon it for some new, **** expansion.

[Vukodlak]

I actually agree with you, I also think the popularity will be even higher as those expansions come closer. I really wonder what they plan on doing with TBC though, considering hellfire penisula is going to be a battlefield full of death, I imagine the GM's porting around, perhaps streaming this massive amount of PvP going on, thousands of people in one big battle!

I hope they up the spawn rate at least 20x. We're gonna need it when there's 5K people in 1 zone.

[Korora]

Not much to do. Vanilla stuff is too easy with WotLK scaling. I wouldn't mind it because I'd have more time to level and all, but yea, those that already hit level 60 would most likely get bored. Since you can do AQ40 with like 20 people...

How is it our fault that some people nolife to get 60 asap for no reason? Just because a minority of people have too much spare time/nothing better to do than farm a game doesn't mean we should all feel the need to rush stuff. I'd like to be there on TBC launch but as someone that can not play more than 1-2 hours a day its not that easy.

Needlessly to say that 1-60 is way more time consumig than 60-70/70-80

Also I don't think that the lvl 60 mage who camped lakeshire for 3 hours was bored.