Roodjay! Welcome to the club. You’d figure it’d be easier to make a clean, nearly-sandbox game. No special hearthstones, toys, models. No shop, no crazy PvP inheritance, no 200K gold transfers. Literally, the single “change” we want is to begin at level 1, wiping the economy. I think our paying our premium, 14.99 or not, should get us active GMs on the “Preservation” end. I don’t consider that a change; more so it is a return to law and order.
This game is not free-to-play. Microtransactions are moving the game in that direction, so this adds a point that we on the fresh end of things aren’t asking for any in this TBC expansion.
Keep it simple, stupid (at Activision). The bugs, honestly, have been mostly worked out. We know 60-70 is going to take most people a while anyways, so we begin at level 1. You roll out phases in line with the store or collector group (Unlimited). The store-clientele can have their own set of servers. I discussed an Unlimited vs Preservation set of servers, where you don’t have to throw the name “Classic” to the wind for the either set. The Unlimited can have any up and coming mounts, toys etc.
Again, you’d figure that retail looking mount and the toy took added work…
About the store and mount, people had argued in another thread that “Oh, well if you are about ‘Preservation/Fresh,’ what about the RAF?” RAF happened three months prior to Wrath of the Lich King. If you want to roll RAF then, let’s plan on that then! I am a purist. If it happened then, I agree with it now. We should be a simple server group, rolling out original content patches in parallel with Unlimited.
"We" are in beta right now, and Activision is just warming the waters around the toad; we’ll be boiling in no time at this rate.
I am about the game being exactly as it was, as close to the original as possible. A level 1 restart is the closest we are going to get to pure because the current “Vanilla” economy is screwed up in so, so, so many ways.