Do you think Classic should move onto TBC eventually?

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The servers they create at launch should remain as-is permanently. Nobody should be surprised with a change to a later expansion or a hard reset with a loss of their character.

That being said, I fully support TBC servers down the road. I disagree though with the popular stance of allowing transfers off of the vanilla servers, because that could completely ruin them when large chunks of the high end characters are suddenly gone.

As for the concept of resets, I think there could be demand for “seasonal” type servers that do reset after 2 years or so, but this would have to be explicitly stated to all players creating a character on them.

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Its like asking for a second piece of pie before you’ve eaten the first one. Lets see how Classic goes, give it some time to mature, play it for at least a year before you start banging the table for more. I wouldnt be suprised if Blizz hasnt been contemplating this very question themselves.
edit: forgot to add, I personally feel Classic should just stay its own entity and thats that.

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No. :black_small_square:

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id like to see it but unsure it will happen.classic just mite stay classic forever.

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If Blizz wants to, sure. But leave Classic alone. No one should be forced to move on to TBC if they don’t want to.

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Yes, it should.
Then monks and toggle on/off new models/animations,
Then I would be complete.

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I like the idea of classic because there’s no gear reset or treadmill to run on. I can take a break for months, and when I come back my gear is still appropriate for the level I play at.

As soon as they start adding expansions to it, then that feature is gone. I’m not against BC servers, but make them fresh or something. Don’t force me into it.

From a larger perspective, it might start fragmenting the community even more than the classic/retail split.

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Wow, server wipes… arguably the dumbest thing I’ve read on these forums. This thread is IQ lowering.

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Oh yeah totally. Just like how they should hard reset the retail servers every 15 years and delete everyone’s progress and achievements. Then we can make everyone play every expansion with time gates that mirror the original chronology. Great plan. Anything else wouldn’t be the true BFA experience according to your logic.

For the TBC servers they can wipe everyone’s characters after 2 years of TBC then force them to pay vanilla for 2 years from level 1, then after that 2 years they can have 2 years of TBC followed by another forced character wipe. Anything else wouldn’t be the true TBC experience according to your logic.

What blizzard can do is offer free lobotomies which voids our memories of the past 2 years so that every forced reset we have no recollection of playing at all. That will provide the only true player experience which mirrors classic wow as it was intended to be played.

Anyone who doesn’t totally agree with forced lobotomy every 2 years is clearly an objective dum dum.

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You can’t remove classic because then you run into the same problem we’ve had for the last 10 years. That is, there would be no classic.

And the whole point of making classic, is so that classic exists. Making it not exist is counter-productive. See how that works?

Also this >

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No it should not move onto TBC because I dislike flying mounts, and making the old zones empty because everyone will be in new zones etc etc

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classic hasn’t dropped and it took YEARS of asking for it to happen… come back to this thread in 2 years and maybe we will have an answer…

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What kind of pie are we talking about, exactly? If it’s cherry, I’m going to want that second piece. I already worked out and can afford the hit on calories.

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While I enjoyed BC it is also what started the trend that would lead to WOTLK that lead to Cataclysm that lead to BFA. BC is just classic a little bit casualized and polished.

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Classic should remain at 1.12 forever.

Entirely separate BC servers would be nice. WotLK too, to a much lesser extent.

No entirely new content should ever be added as the current design team is full of fail. That does include things that were “planning to be included” previously.

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Classic will stay classic

Maybe there will be a tbc server, those will be seperate and without stupid character transfers that f up the economy

Maybe we will have some kind of classic+ (highly doubt it)

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Didn’t want to do it in the 50 other threads huh?

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And zero of you people have managed to come up with a better solution to the problem than “let the server stagnate and die, lol”… Despite the fact that it’s not authentic giving people unlimited time to progress, despite the fact that we already have nearly two decades of data showing stagnation does not work, despite the fact that we have years of data on pservers showing that fresh realms/resets are overwhelmingly more popular

You like the idea of massively changing the historical design of the game, because you, by your own admission, don’t want to play it for “MONTHS” at a time.

I’m not trying to be rude, because I do get it… but this is exactly the kind of mentality that has ruined the retail game and a shining example of exactly why it should not be allowed, or even offered as an option, because you clearly either didn’t consider the consequences of a change like that, or worse, did consider them and still felt entitled to it (which is a bfa mindset).

Talking about the latter, you simply aren’t entitled to see every bit of content vanilla has to offer. It’s not retail, with LFRs and such, but rather vanilla, where much of the content might simply not be designed for you. This wasn’t something to be shunned like the modern game, but rather something to be embraced, because it gives greater meaning and value to those that do clear those hurdles. I never got close to rank 14 in Vanilla, and I don’t expect to do so in Classic. Put me on a stagnant realm, however, and it becomes significantly easier, if not inevitable that I’ll eventually out nerd the other nerds and collect a title. PvE wise, I never killed C’Thun (took a break at the end AQ40), or 4h/Saph/KT in Naxx (guild couldn’t get 4h)… I didn’t earn those things in vanilla, but I did have a healthy respect for those that did.

Speaking about the former, if it was a lack of consideration for anything beyond your own selfish impulses, then that’s just indication that the majority of you simply can’t and shouldn’t be entrusted with the power to make hard choices to begin with.

No one (even me) LIKES the idea of resets… They are however NECESSARY for longer term server survival, and literally all of actual the evidence points to that. If you want to avoid them, then how about you, or one of the half dozen other people strongly opposed to them, actually come up with a better solution than “lol just stagnate and die”… because that ship won’t sail. You want to stay timelocked in vanilla, fine… but there’s a cost to that, if you mean to preserve the content churn engine that actually keeps the game running… that cost is resets, unless someone actually comes up with a better solution. Thus far, not a damn one of you has.

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I’ve always viewed Classic as an interactive museum piece. Something that doesn’t change. A “this is where we came from” sort of statement. One that also has profit potential as there is a substantial chunk of people who loved playing that first release.

I doubt seriously that tinkering with it to the point of moving through subsequent expansions is in on their roadmap.

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Lighten up, Francis