{"id":1602,"date":"2007-01-15T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-01-16T09:53:34","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T16:53:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/1602\/","title":{"rendered":"TBC launch: flawless victory?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m level 4 on my dranei shaman (as I don’t have any 60 to go see the outlands on the euro servers) and having fun.<\/p>\n

The zone art is awesome and one step higher than classic WoW, while I have some complaints about some minor details and character art (like hairstyles, blood elfs in particular). I also didn’t like the running animations, but after playing more I like draenei’s animations overall (and voices too!).<\/p>\n

The launch here was absolutely smooth, or at least it was from my personal perspective (and I also play on one of those servers branded “full”). The expansion was activated without even requiring downtime, just a relaunch of the client. The server is working without an hint of lag and the starting zones have players without being overcrowded (but it’s night here).<\/p>\n

I’m speaking way too early, but for now it’s a flawless victory. We’ll see in the next days.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’ll try to take out some statistics with Census to try to figure out what’s the new population cap.<\/p>\n

EDIT: When even on FoH<\/a> you read it was a flawless launch, then maybe it’s true. But we still have to see how the population increases in the next days.<\/p>\n

P.S.
\nNotice how the “secret” of WoW’s art is all in the colors. Every screenshot and zone seems to have an unique palette. And really close to a painting effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m level 4 on my dranei shaman (as I don’t have any 60 to go see the outlands on the euro servers) and having fun. The zone art is awesome and one step higher than classic WoW, while I have some complaints about some minor details and character art (like hairstyles, blood elfs in particular). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}