LOL – NoF…
D) In this thread Loial made a compelling case for seasons, I think. I like the idea of, instead of an expansion (or accumulated wealth) making most or all of Vanilla content into trivial irrelevance, it is better to start over and make my toon into trivial irrelevance. Sort of like a real death of the toon, rather than having a ghost of an entire game still hanging out, with Ragnoros and Onyxia just sitting there akwardly falling to a single player after having wiped you and 39 of your friends repeatedly for weeks or months until you finally got them down.
As far as the pacing of seasons go, Season 2 (Vanilla was Season 1) would start this coming summer and last at least until summer of 2022 (3 years), but hopefully longer than that. It’s got to be longer than the 2 years of Vanilla and the ticking time clock to the “end” of the season should give us at least a year extra compared to Vanilla, maybe 2 or 3, before offering up Season 3 and drawing away the bulk of players who want to move on, either to new/fresh BC servers (I prefer no transfers or copies, just make everyone level fresh level 1 toons all the way to 60 before stepping foot into the BC content, with basically zero starting wealth), or to Season 3.
After Season 3 launches, Season 2 servers will still be available, albeit dying or dead, and languishing with a bunch of wealthy and well-geared level 60s and a bunch of alts and whatnot. Would be neat to see what happens with those languishing servers and what kind of small community persists with them.
Then you could start a new season every 3 years or so, and maybe shut down old season servers (except Season 2, that should remain open forever) a few months after the next season launches. Rinse and repeat.