Charging for character copies killed vanilla Classic completely, and then announcing FRESH vanilla servers killed the dead corpse of the existing vanilla Classic servers even more.
Wrath just continued TBC’s trend of growth lol
Wrath is also where the game plateaued.
The fastest growth in sub numbers was in fact in vanilla. And TBC added more subs than Wrath did.
Uh… because it started with 12 mil subs from Wrath, yeah. Silly argument. If Cata came now it would have fewer subs than vanilla.
Gonna go ahead and guess you started playing in Wrath.
Shrug We’ll see what happens. And no, I started playing in vanilla. Saying Wrath continued TBCs growth trend really doesn’t change my point. Subs peaked and also stayed pretty consistent at that peak during all of Wrath. We’ll see if my theory is proved out, byt I expect classic wrath is going to be pretty huge. Vanilla was the starting point. It only grew from there. My other point was that folks that want to just sit in vanilla are in the minority of the player base. Proof: Vanilla Classic servers are all ghost towns. Reset them, and you’ll have a small, vocal minority come back for a bit, but everyone else, and all the money that they bring, will be on to the next classic expansion. And you can count on blizzard to follow the money.
So the growth stopped in Wrath. It was unable to continue the trends of growth from vanilla and TBC.
I certainly don’t think Classic Era would be booming or anything, but it would be healthier population if Blizz hadn’t done the two things I mentioned above.
I know. I logged in and couldn’t /who a single soul. I really expected more of us weirdos that love vanilla to stick around. I thought surely everyone had grown out of chasing whatever comes next. It was all downhill from vanilla/bc. I’m just as happy to stay in vanilla. Never loved Outland except for the first time.
I will still never earn Sulfuras or GM now thanks to the losers that abandoned us. =( What server you on? I’ll literally come play with you. It’ll be our world.
You’re failing to understand that every server has a finite life cycle, and the period of time they are at their best (high population / lots of groups / robust economy) is a short and fleeting window.
There is a sweet spot somewhere between BWL and the beginning of AQ40 where everything is alive. I saw it in Classic and in SoM. But once AQ20/40 and ZG are stale, servers tend to decline pretty fast. It’s inevitable because people play through the content and move on.
I think if you were able to xfer your legacy character to a fresh server in the AQ/Naxx phases you would be lucky to catch a brief glimpse of what it sounds like you seek. The walls would come tumbling down soon thereafter as people leave in droves either due to burn out or simply because Naxx requires too much from most players.
I’d love to be wrong. If you find Nirvana somewhere, send an invite.
The new servers are Wrath not classic bro. Your gear would be worthless so you might as well reroll anyway. Your character starts at 1 but you just level to 80. You don’t have to do any of the previous content (raids, etc).
There are no new classic servers.
By the time they would allow transfers people would be in NAXX gear from Wrath or arena gear from Wrath and they would destroy you in anything.
Even arena gear from TBC would be far far better than anything you have.
‘Poppin’ may not be the word I use to describe it but I can confirm there has been a steady trickle of growth happening this past month, even on my backwater cluster.
Its not a new fresh classic server its fresh servers for the release of wrath that u will play wrath. So if u arent interested in tbc why would you want to transfer to these realms?
Also if u cloned your character to a bc realm then u have access already to what the new fresh servers will be.