I’m not Corpse or trying to answer for him but I feel this isn’t really accurate.
Personally I don’t necessarily want to see F R E S H but that’s just my opinion. It seems like it would drag a lot of attention/resources from the Classic Era servers already existing. People like Despitebeing have asked that Blizzard consider replaying the big server events like the AQ event (I personally would like all of it except minting new bug lords) and/or the Scourge/Naxx invasion. That would allow people new to Era to experience that as well.
Fresh in the form of seasonal does less to compete with/overwrite Era. That’s fine. I’m just concerned that Era isn’t cannibalized any more.
I prefer that Blizzard, if they must, go with seasonal rather than F R E S H.
Does that count as crying?
If you strictly wanted to play through Era phase by phase (save for the special events) you could do that now in Era.
I get wanting to “restart” to get those events. You mentioned “fresh” economy as well in addition to not wanting to be carried by max leveled characters. There are work arounds for a lacking economy/AH like bartering but they take more effort. It is a lot easier with a growing pop and Era will have trouble getting that if the F R E S H keeps nipping at it when it’s not necessary.
Playing fresh/restarts with seasonal is more reasonable and sustainable.
The whole issue with the AH is new players effectively cannot use it properly. Players who have been on the server for years can simply outgun you and run the AH however they choose.
Sure we could all artificially progress through and find work arounds to avoid the AH and higher levels influence, but it’s just easier and more fun to start fresh
I’m sure everyone remembers when every one was ranking on som, and I’m sure a lot remember when all the full naxx bis warriors transferred over with MoM to essentially press 1 button and delete a blob of 20 fresh characters in AV.
That is essentially unavoidable on era and is exactly how it would play out
No guarantees of course but there are only two feasible scenarios in which we see a Fresh Era realm before 2025:
A) Everyone playing Era quits tomorrow.
B) Era suddenly becomes massively popular again overnight.
Anything is possible but I dont think either of those are very likely.
Other than that, from Blizzard’s vantage point, there is very little in the way of making that decision for them. A few people asking for their wish to be granted on the forums has never accomplished anything.
Maybe if the Pro Fresh crowd had some kind of slick marketing campaign going for them either I or Blizz could be convinced but it seems like thats just limited to impotently raging at naysayers on the forums.
I hope we do get fresh era servers one day - because that would mean Era is doing well enough to warrant more servers.
Again, I get the imbalance. We talked about that elsewhere.
But Era players have a vested interest keeping people there.
If the guys wanted to get you to come play a few matches and you wanted consumes but couldn’t afford the AH, there wasn’t any other way to get them? Trade mats, barter items or some other swap that wouldn’t compromise your feeling of being carried?
Asking for an XP buff pales in comparison to asking for a Fresh server (which is really a dozen servers based on region and type [pve pvp rp pve rp pvp]).
But if thats how things worked Id be sitting in LFD right now.
Path of Exile’s seasonal design has been described (by the developers themselves) as the whole reason why the game has had continual success since its conception.
Everquest has been doing their Time-locked Expansions for years.
World of Warcraft did it to cash in on private server populations, who have been playing fresh start servers for years.
Ragnarok Online recently opened a new server to siphon old players into the game.
Archeage made a fresh start server recently.
World of Warcraft made a fresh start realm before WotLK Classic launched.
I could probably find a dozen other examples if I tried.
The data makes it quite obvious that there is money to be made. You are empirically wrong about your stance on this one.
so you want them to try making a new branch of expansions that keeps the level cap at 60? i agree that sounds good, but let’s face it, it’s not happening.
seasonal servers with some changes is about all we can expect from modern day microsoft acti-blizzard.
