Yah I think Transfer would be nice.
Because people might want to take a break and come back to their character?
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I want authentic classic, I’ve wanted it for 10 years or so now.
But I also know you can’t just keep the same thing forever and ask people to pay monthly for it, if they go the full road after naxx it means the project has a set expiration date already and this is something no one wants.
I do believe they will keep some original classic servers, however I believe the majority will go classic+
There’s 2 problems with this.
First, they’re confirming no more work on these when they hit their last content.
Meaning these ALSO have a set expiration date from minute 1, wrath in particular doesn’t has as many people interested, then you add the initial factor of classic being the first, etc.
Would people want to join something that’s gonna end soon anyways?
And even worse, would people want to join wrath after everything released and the only relevant content is icc, the heroic dungeons and somewhat toc?
Then there’s design, again, by design in wrath you can hit 80, hit some forge/saron/hof and you’re set to raid extremely quickly, heavily shortening the duration, lifespan and things to do in the expansion while in vanilla and tbc to a lesser degree, you can spend the entire years of it doing tons of things, the freedom of vanilla allowed you that, not to mention that beyond weekly boss kills toc and beyond basically makes all earlier content irrelevant.
People keep saying this but don’t provide source, I haven’t seen every word they’ve said about classic but I don’t remember seeing this, so if you could provide it I would be grateful.
And I believe they originally underestimated the interest in classic, it’s massive in many places I’ve checked and the problems with bfa just made that interest higher.
Yes, this.
Why would it be going in any direction at all? It’ll stay where it is. That’s the point.
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Because that’s an awful idea.
Classic++ would fragment the playerbase too–into “playing and not playing.” And I’d be in the latter group, for my part.
The question is whether Blizzard is stupid enough to think, exactly backwards from reality, that “we’ll add new content, thus making the Classic servers no longer exist as Classic servers” is not a risk and “we’ll release separate servers for the also-widely-demanded Burning Crusade” is.
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Yeah, I don’t think we’d ever see any “Classic+” as that’d likely alienate those that want to have Vanilla always exist as it was with only the most minor of tweaks.
I’d much rather they give us TBC servers instead, and those would be much more likely.
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It’s worth noting private servers have maintained okay populations despite being illegal to host as well as not developing content past final tier.
I thought it was with the initial announcement, though looking back I can’t find it.
All I can find is statements saying that they’re only focused on Classic and making it authentic right now, but nothing about the future.
So I might have been mistaken unless I missed it.
Why are these threads always made by characters with 0 posts? ![:thinking:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/thinking.png?v=6" ":thinking:")
Walk in their shoes, if several years later and everyone get board and the population started to decrease, will they main the classic server anymore?
There must be some new contents after that.
Except that invalidates an authentic experience and opens up the game to other post vanilla changes.
No thank you.
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And lose their remaining Classic playerbase, 'cause there’s already a game for people who think Blizzard’s “new content” is worth playing, and it’s called Modern.
You’re never going to convince some people. They’ve been brainwashed over the years that there needs to be new carrots dangled before them. The concept of playing just because they enjoy playing is beyond them. It’s just the sad perception of a lot of players have towards mmos.
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Well this kinda went off the rails, I wasn’t saying add the other expansions, definitely not, besides they had to build classic wow from the ground up, I imagine they would have to do the same to the other expansions just so everything would mesh properly.
all I’m saying, is that after all the progression, after 4 years or whatever, once we’re at the end of classic, which originally was the opening of the dark portal, why not instead add the features that where supposed to be in the original game. such as the different raids that where canceled, or instances, or zones. not classes, races, spells, ect. just more exploration content, and lore.
keep classic, classic for as long as they can, but once its starts to get stale (and it will after 4+ years) add the stuff they had to cut when they released it.
imo - of course
We know what you were asking about. This is hardly a new idea.
And our point is that by doing so, you invalidate classic for those who just want vanilla wow.
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Classic isn’t meant to be another developed MMORPG. It’s a time capsule, and many players continue to this day play on servers where progression is forever frozen at Naxx due to the gameplay systems in place back then had immense replayability.
If people want continued patches and content over the months with a guarantee of such in the future, that’s what the Modern product is for and where the bulk of WoW’s development team is.
I think the game just needs room to breath and figure that kind of thing out.
Blizzard really needs to see some good numbers to re-assure them that this was time and money spent wisely.
BC, maybe with some stuff removed might be popular but WotLK will most likely not be. It is the easy mode expansion so I doubt it appeals in the same way.
Given the choice, I imagine the most die-hard Vanilla players would prefer a “season” server that just resets after 18 months. Personally I’d rather go on to a level 60 version of BC. We’ll know how it works out in about 2 years 
To be fair, most of the content that was supposed to be in the original game that had actually been worked on is stuff that ended up as TBC’s launch content.
Karazhan, Caverns of Time, Hellfire Peninsula. They were all worked on in Vanilla, even as far back as the beta.
Asking for Classic to finish the content that never was is more or less the same thing as asking for a “Vanillified” version of TBC.
So it kind of goes hand in hand with talking about TBC servers at the very least.
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As someone who’s incredibly excited for Vanilla WoW, I began in TBC and I think it’s fine without any heavy alterations. “Warts and all” which includes flying in Outland and a cap of level 70, and elves in the Horde.
I think TBC could very well have its own audience with it’s own servers, forever frozen (after content phases) at Sunwell, on servers separate from Classic and Modern.
Op what might make people more receptive to your idea is if you wait until people have actually had a chance to enjoy classic first.
Let me put it in perspective.
You have a group of people who enjoyed game x.
Over the years game x was changed by other people into something so different that it was now game y and not game x anymore.
The group that loved game x campaigned hard to get game x remade and eventually the developer acquiesced.
And before the fans of game x even got a chance to enjoy the game people are already talking about changing it on them.
Think about that for a few minutes.