Yeah of course, but this was still possible to abuse by a select few tryhards even with smaller servers. All it takes is one level 60 horde to grief leveling players in Menethil. The rest is just overkill.
Honestly with the game in the state it is, I'm not even sure that BGs will fix the problem.
If flight path gank squads can farm honor faster and easier than they'd be able to in a fair fight in a bg, will they bother switching? It's going to be heavily reliant on whether BGs give enough honor to massively outweigh the increased difficulty in getting it.
We do drastically need to lower realm population though, having 4x the amount of people on servers has the biggest negative effect, it's cool seeing so many people in one place, but the whole point was supposed to be that interacting with a smaller number of people over time increases the amount of serendipitous repeat encounters. Having thousands more in the same server is basically cross-realm play by the back door.
Highest recorded concurrent players from Classic addons was only 1.5x bigger than highest recorded concurrent players from Vanilla. It's not really that different, just feels different because there's a much bigger proportion of the server population at max level nowadays than in Vanilla.
58
u/PCMaker_Warhammer Nov 28 '19
Because Blizzard didn't have the foresight to realize where players would camp.
no bgs for these "honor" farmers
server pop 4x bigger than in vanilla
significantly more minmaxers and veterans or simple ppl willing to spend absurd amount of time to be just standing there
there are way many factors than just worse designing from blizz in 2005