i’m hoping for tbc servers
We will see a BC server before classic has hit the 5 year mark. I would say 2-3 years max after classic is released.
Private servers have been running vanilla well over five years, and people are still having fun. Although i think TBC should be introduced, vanilla servers can stay for a very long time.
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kinda true but not true also as there are no servers that have been around for 5 years strait and even the biggest private servers open fresh servers every now and then and even delete older servers.
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I would have a system of merging low pop servers with other low pop servers to make medium or bigger servers, while making new servers as the demand calls for them
id expect to consistently have 50000 or more(probably more) players for years to come that way, that is, after it gets to the state described by the OP, and thats a very conservative estimate
Leave it as is, because the whole point is to stay there where people can go back.
If people want new servers for classic and bc+ then it should be ok, because some people new server opening up could give people new experiences like those events aq again for those who missed.
D) Acknowledge that gamers are a self-renewing group in which people age, new young people grow up, and old people die, and new players will continue to find and play the game.
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private servers are dead except for one, which has been out for like 8 months
I also believe TBC servers would be and should be part of our future. However, I do not like the idea of “copying” the Classic character over.
Just like last time, it should be a “One-Way Ticket”.
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Agree 100%.
Bring TBC servers, but if you choose to migrate your character to said server - that’s it. No take backs.
Furthermore I’d say the Classic TBC servers should be tied to the “Vanilla” ones in such a way that character names, and guild names can transfer to TBC. If a name has already been taken on Classic Malorne, it should be unavailable on Classic TBC Malorne. Conversely - if a player starts on Classic TBC Malorne because they want to play a Draenei Shaman, their name should be unavailable on Classic Malorne.
Kind of getting the cart before Elekk, but you get the point.
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A WOTLK SERVER WOULD BE SO FLIPITY AMAZING
LAVA BURST. PENANCE. BLADESTORM. GUYS WOTLK WAS AMAZING. Only thing was DKs were a little overturned BUT THAT’S OK and I know those spells are in retail but it was just so FRESH and CLEAN in wotlk. I loved wotlk
ask for a FRESH server.
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the magic in the first year won’t be the same as the rest of it. the experience will shrink from thousands to hundreds, dozens, tens, couples, nobody else around while you level, and the average level of player you encounter will continue to rise. vanilla wasn’t a solo experience, leveling doesn’t define it, basically nobody’s asking for a solo offline version of vanilla.
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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.
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Leave the Classic server up for anyone who wants to play it. Create a TBC server.
seems like the logical thing…
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100% agreed. If Bliz can’t afford to run it anymore, then shut it down. Adding on to it is treating it like a new game you’re trying to improve. That’s not what I want, I want to experience what is was like 14 years ago.
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There should always be museum-piece Classic servers, no matter what else Blizzard decides to do beyond Classic (if anything). Classic should be available to anyone who wants to see that content.
My opinion on what should come next though, is Classic TBC. I don’t trust Blizzard with making “new” content using the old talents, skills and rules. And then after that I’d love to see Classic WotLK. In the end we’d have the Classic Trilogy from before the old world was completely wrecked.
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I truly believe as long as modern WoW is running so will classic even if there’s like 20 people playing it by then. Even if I get to a point where I’m outright over playing WoW at least I know it’ll always be there for when i decide to pop back in. I hope TBC does happen anyway, but I don’t want legacy to be progressive, I want whatever expansion they add to be its own museum. If I have access to both classic and BC I’d bounce between them. I’d maybe play wrath too.
I really have doubts of further legacy projects, but I have an idea where they could do it in a clean way using the same client for classic, BC, and wrath. When you download the game you’d get all the files up patch 3.3.5, but when you launch the game through battlenet you’ll first get a patch switcher that’ll activate or deactivate the files for that particular expansion.
Seeing Blizzard do some crazy things over the years though, their developers are incredibly smart it wouldn’t surprise me if they could put my idea to shame, but I do think it’s possible, there’s additional incentive if classic is extremely successful especially when they already have the base game working again it’s easier to add in expansions after the fact, but we’re also faced with the fact Blizzard was already hesitant to do A legacy server because they didn’t want to feel like they’re running more than 1 MMORPG. It’s kinda pointless to discuss now though, we should be grateful for what we’re getting and need to worry about what’s in front of us. Can worry about further expansions if/when the time comes.
I agree and also think a significant number of people will play it.
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A BC server cloned from the vanilla severs, leave the vanilla server untouched, any characters transferred over deleted from the vanilla game.