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I'm glad this is your response and how you feel about the English speakers on this server. We're just a joke to you, for you to mess with and treat like shit with no repercussions. I would think someone with the ability to mute or ban people would be in a position where they would care about the appearance and reputation of this server, and try and treat people fairly. Apparently you just really don't give a shit about us Americans. I'm glad I can reference this post later to show how much you hate us.

the administration here shoots first, asks questions later. i was muted for six hours simply for saying something nice to spletnik of tortuga, giving him a compliment on his guild's transmogs. they just indiscriminately attack English players. there is a lot of english vs russian hostility on here.

these guys are evil. i told spletnik that tortuga has the best transmogs ive ever seen and said that his guild fucking rocks. he then muted me for six hours.

In my personal opinion, this is a less than ideal solution, even though at first I felt the same way I will admit. Some logical reasoning as of late has changed my mind though: 1.) Right now everyone is on one realm together, kinda like an International realm. There are tons of English speakers, plenty to join an English guild, and use the English channel and enjoy the game properly. This can be done or is done by each language that exists out there, and is probably much harder for speakers of more obscure languages then say English. 2.) Don't you think the Russians are thinking, hey I can't talk to all these English speakers, we should have our own Russian realm. I mean come on you can't expect everyone to get their own realm. 3.) The reality is we English speakers are the luckiest of all, as over the coming months us being the dominant language in numbers and Warcraft players in the world will probably enjoy a majority share of the realm if it stays in one realm anyway, so I wouldn't worry about the seemingly massive amount of Russian speakers you run into right now. 4.) After actually playing here for a bit I don't even notice the Russian players, I just see the English named ones in the crowds and talk to them, talk to my english-only guild, etc and it's much less a problem then I ever thought it would be. Thanks for listening to my thoughts, I truly believe an English realm would be great and I'd love it, but I can't think of legitimate reasons that support it logically or fairly.

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Hey I'm going to try and do my best to explain how private servers work a little bit for you, as I believe you are under the impression as many others are that the devs are here to change the way classes work, and balance specs in the game. The people who work on private servers are tied up indefinitely, working hard to fix bugs and make the game work like it does in retail. They are trying to make the abilities work correctly, and hit for the correct amount of damage, etc. They are trying to get quests working, abilities, and so on, to work as intended. The devs on private servers cannot be expected to, likely have no desire to, and frankly shouldn't have the audacity to try and re-balance the intricate interplay of every single ability and spec and class in the game. They are not going to spend the countless man hours of calculating and playtesting small tweaks in the damage and healing done by various abilities so that they can possibly do a better job then Blizzard themselves have done balancing all the classes, specs, and areas of gameplay. The goal here is to make this game work 100% perfectly like the real 5.42 that existed on retail at one point, and for each patch change thereafter. To expect and demand that the admins of this server get there hands dirty modifying what frost DK's and destro locks are hitting for is short of preposterous. Such a modification is also virtually unprecedented on any private server, it's just simply opening up a can of worms and trying to modify something that they just don't have even the chance of succesfully managing the butterfly/ripple effect every change causes to the intricate interplay of various classes/specs in various areas of gameplay such as pvp/pve and those area's even more specialized variations therein. People need to understand this: Private servers don't have the (desire, reason, priority, hours, testers) to play God with Blizzard's game, besides working towards effectively copying what already has been released. We would only be so lucky to have a game as balanced and well working as the one that Blizzard put out as patch X.XX, and not expect something "more balanced". This issue comes up almost daily on almost every private server out there, and something about this should become a sticky basically. Not this exact thread but a paraphrase of the ideas presented here, so as to keep the forum clean of such whine threads in the future. - - - Updated - - - Klez I also want to say to you and the rest of your crew, thank you so much. Without having the huge project background that ***** and ****** have, you guys have come up in a shorter amount of time and created a far more polished project, true to the original game with no cross-faction mailboxes, dungeons, guilds, and other silly nonsense, and have put forth the finest quality private server I have ever had the privilege of playing on. I have a decent grasp on the scope of the work required to create and maintain this project, and you guys should be very proud of yourselves. You are indeed working very quickly, and very effectively, already surpassing the level of polish of many if not all your competitors/peers.