I mean, this should be assessed based on whether the benefits outweigh the costs.
Best case-scenario: Fresh server economies are under control for a while (possibly even a very long time), they create a much more enjoyable experience for people who want to play the game the way it was designed to be played, maybe botting isn’t as much of a problem on these realms, and people are happy to know that others in the world didn’t simply buy their characters.
Worst case-scenario: Fresh servers just end up being the same experience as non-fresh servers, except people who are against the level boost still get to enjoy knowing that everyone at high level actually had to play to get there.
I can’t imagine how anyone could justify not implementing some fresh servers. These two scenarios I’ve laid out are entirely possible, and I don’t see any potential costs that could possibly outweigh potential benefits. You can’t even make the case that server population will be an issue because these realms could be opened with the explicit intent to merge them in the future if the populations dwindle too much.
Pro-boost people really love to use that fallacious argument that “it doesn’t affect you”, but if fresh servers are a thing, they literally cannot and will not affect the experience of players on other servers. Everyone wins. I can’t actually tell if you’re arguing that Fresh servers shouldn’t happen, but even playing the Devil’s advocate, I can’t think of a reason why anyone wouldn’t want them to happen unless they’re the very gate keepers that they pretend to fight against on the forums.
Thank you for the well-wishes. Seems I do not even have to take the time to reply because others have already done so - which sort of inherently makes my point for me.
Much of your “reality” that needs facing in this post seems only exemplified by your expectation rather than fact. That makes it more opinion than truth.
I google every day “Fresh TBC Classic” - praying for news that Blizzard will at least acknowledge the THOUSANDS of requests they have for this. My sub, along w/ countless others, is guaranteed for years if TBC fresh servers are confirmed. If they aren’t released - it’s not. Let people enjoy the game they remember without min maxers already having everything prepped perfectly ahead of time. That’s not what TBC was meant to be.
Let’s let the min/max and Retail tourists keep their servers and cash shop conveniences and give us RPG’ers new, fresh servers to experience TBC Classic with. Both communities get what they want this way.
23.5K view with 4.7K likes. Still seems like a win/win to me Blizzard.
Just want to add my voice to this, whatever good it does. I never was able to level a character in classic to 60 during launch, and after launch it felt like leveling zones were abandoned because of boost culture, so I never felt motivated to return in a meaningful way. Fresh TBC servers give me the chance to try again and take that character through the dark portal when I finish leveling, ideally they would do one of each type, as I really want to roll on a RP-PVP server myself.
Doesn’t sound like you would even play fresh if it were offered. Why all the nay saying and speculation on something you aren’t interested in?
You and the others making points against it just can’t stand if others are having their own kind of fun. Truth here is, the people who want fresh aren’t going to play with the min maxxers, so get over it.
This right here is the most crucial aspect of the whole thing. The divide in the community is getting bigger and bigger and its resulting in some very unsavory behavior. Adding these different servers with different rules allows everyone to play how they want to play.
Yes, because history has shown how well it works when we segragate people who do not like each other and make special arrangements to cater to the “I don’t like those kind of people.” attitudes.
this is the epitome of a strawman against the idea lol what does isolation within a server have to do with playing against players across realms? I can compete with you on a real server while you are botted/gold inflated to death. thats like saying you cant go out in public away from your family since you dont like strangers as much as them lol. absolutely terrible logic
So you want fresh/new servers. What is the end goal?
Let’s look at this from a presepctive of, you get them and 1 to 2 months have passed
Will the fresh server have gold farmers and bots? Yep
Will the economy be overinflated? Yep
Will they be any different from any other server? Nope
The idea of a fresh server is a temporary thing, within 1-2 month it will be exactly the same as any other server, the only difference is that it does not have people you do not personally like on it, people who boosted. That is the only difference, nothing more.
You are not magically creating some system that prevents gold-farmers and bots from joining, you are not implementing some system to prevent inflation.
So to boil down the reasoning for fresh servers is because you do not like someone. So you are in favor of segregation and isolating people you have some personal bias against.
is it a fallacy lol a textbook Strawman. what you’re saying has no bearing whatsoever on server population. So youre more worried “old” non fresh servers will die while people move to “fresh?” if so the idea is welcome and natural selection plays out because the game state is so bad currently. Also could introduce merges between lesser existing servers, just like they could for any new fresh servers they monitor after the opening months. Its disingenuous to even believe the current game and fresh servers of the game at the same game at this point tbh. the only way I could see this being any issue related to what youre saying is if you assume a lot of current servers will lose a lot of their players to fresh (even tho seemingly everyone on here keeps insisting those servers will die? so kind of oxymoronic) as well as assuming the current mega servers are lively because these disenfranchised players are currently amongst the players on them, which I would again dispute because a ton of those players such as myself stopped playing this modern rendition of classic long ago/only play sparingly.
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