• Make new TBC servers, existing Classic servers stay level 60 forever as they were advertised
• Webpage for copying your character to TBC servers ahead of their launch
• Webpage also allows Guild Master character to create a copying of guild to new server. Players in said guild receive a confirmation yes/no prompt upon logging in to the copy website
• If there’s duplicate character names, the highest level of said name gets it. If they’re both 60, first come first serve (i.e. someone can’t tag names ahead of server launches with their level 21 like me… or at least they can try but they’ll lose out to someone with greater investment)
• Goal is to preserve as much of Classic as is, your names, guilds, communities, accomplishments all stay right where they are
• NO TRANSFERS, just copies - Your Classic Guild Master won’t be poofing into non-existence, you won’t have to choose who leaves and who stays in your char list, you won’t be fighting to keep the name you’ve had for two years as you transfer back to a Classic server, etc.
• Even if some of your mates leave for TBC for a bit, their original characters are still there in Classic and they can come back and chill with you at any time
Confirmed chad option.
Add in 1x faction change from Horde to Ally and you’ve got my vote for WOW Head Dev.
This is the legit only real solution to this whole situation. Anything else is dumb
you’ve got my vote for WOW Head Dev
Seriously a potential candidate for one of my 3 genie wishes. Oh the amazing, beautiful things I would do for the game
All copying a character does is allow people to abuse it to ship stupid quantities of gold over.
Come up with a better solution.
Implement a minor gold cap for a copy then??
Not like it’s hard to make enough gold while leveling 60 to 70 to have halfway enough for your epic flyer.
Pretty sure Blizzard already has a method of their choosing sorted out.
I do like your suggestion and ideas though.
This never happened.
No changes is the watchword for Classic, right? Have the transition from Classic to Classic TBC be the same as it was with Vanilla to TBC. If people want to stay stuck in Classic then give them a copy option to a Classic-only server.
Sorry no, just because people have a 60 toon on some rotting vanilla server doesnt mean they’ll play it.
Well it’s going to happen now. Every single answer in the BC survey implies we will be able to keep our vanilla characters in vanilla land indefinitely.
This is what people wanted and it’s what we’re getting.
This is true but option one is literally all servers progress to BC with the option to move characters to Classic only servers.
Right.
I’d prefer option 2 because it would lean towards remaining vanilla. But option 1 would be fine as well so long as there was no time limit on your decision to transfer or stay.
Still I think the best option isn’t in the survey, and that is a character copy so you don’t have to leave vanilla to progress to BC. Just have to have some way to prevent gold duplication.
Perhaps there could be a 1 time copy that copies all of your characters from a vanilla server to a BC server. Once this is done you can never copy from that server again. That way you cannot transfer one character at a time in order to duplicate gold.
Based on the many iterations of vanilla pservers, fully progressed servers tend to die off aside from raidloggers who do aq/naxx. Blizz will probably need to make some fresh classic servers starting from p1 again.
Don’t disagree. Progress all servers to tbc. Create new classic servers for a new vanilla progression experience from level 1 (no xfers).
This but also we should have a “trophy” server that is fully progressed where people can play their progressed characters on. If people want to raidlog naxx forever or just keep their 60 toons as trophies then let them imo
A lot of that could be blamed on server drama because the majority of them begged for money to upkeep the server, and then when that didn’t work they’d start selling services. Also a lot of pservers died when people hit 60 and realized that the end game and raids were broken as all hell as post launch, patched end game was much more heavily based on missing server side data and not values found within the core game - i.e. raids felt wrong.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that I honestly wish that Blizzard would’ve preserved a version of each expansion over the years. I honestly don’t care about Cata, WoD, w/e… but from the standpoint of my love for old and legacy games I’m very concerned with the preservation of games in their own unique moments. Imagine still having a place where Artifact Weapons work, where MoP class design exists, etc. I didn’t stop loving Megaman 2 when Megaman 3 came out, but for some reason whenever WoW implemented a new expansion they didn’t think for two seconds how it would erode the experience of what we did have… only how the game worked as a service. It’d be nice for Classic to not repeat those same mistakes.
I mean sure maybe some of the lesser servers had issues with that, but from my own experience on Lightbringer (the precursor server to Northdale by LH) I witnessed the slow death of the fully progressed server. LH never needed to solicit for donations nor did it sell services, but Lightbringer still bled out when it reached naxx. Once LH released Northdale as a fresh server, EVERYONE rerolled there except for the few who just wanted to raidlog. People want to play classic for sure, but there always needs to be something to strive for. I would run classic back again from phase 1 as a new class probably. That’s where the replay value comes from.
I’m not entirely opposed to that.
The key word is COPY, whereas Blizzard’s survey uses the word TRANSFER. If my server naturally transitions to TBC in a #nochanges Blizzlike manner, that’s fine… but I also want the option to preserve my Classic experience without having to commit to one or the other. If my friends list is going to be sliced in half over who wants to play where, don’t make us have to choose which half we favor. If a buddy wants me to tank Classic 60 ZG on Thursday, and another wants me to tank TBC 70 Shattered Halls on Friday… let my answer to both be “yes”, not “Ok, well I have to relevel my Classic Warrior first”.
Also, it could kind of kill TBC engagement if people are afraid to lose their progress and prestige over a transfer. Are you going to take you geared to the nines AQ/Naxx tank in TBC where they’ll have to start the gear treadmill all over? With that either/or choice, a lot of people are going to say “no”… if it’s a copy, they’ll say “why not?”
Copy, NOT Transfer.
The big takeaway with this is really that the Classic population is going to get split further. Many people will choose one or the other rather than play both. This means that any servers which continue on will need mergers and any newly-created transfer (copy) servers will have to have management on how many go over to each.
I don’t see it going well. Splitting the population is going to further degrade the overall experience. For example, even now some PVP brackets are tough to fill. With the split they will become extinct.
They’re not going to force people’s hard earned BiS level 60s into BC or make them start at level 1. The outrage would be far too intense.
The survey implies we’ll be able to keep our 60s indefinitely, as it should be.
But they could still make fresh vanilla servers and eventually merge them into the original vanilla servers.