Honestly this has been my logic to. But, I don’t really have the itch to play vanilla era. I wanted permanent wrath classic era and blizzard declined. I haven’t really been playing classic since.
And I honestly do not see the point in anniversary vanilla classic era. Like we just did this 5 years ago for some of us. And we wanted wrath, and didn’t get it. I don’t really feel like going to vanilla again only to be given the middle finger for permanent wrath classic era again as a permanent option.
Like I just want one server for permanent wrath. I don’t care about hardcore wrath or sod wrath or classic plus wrath. It shouldn’t be that big of a deal to make one freakin permanent classic wrath server in my op.
Such a bummer they left us in this position lol … “spend hundreds of hours in our game ! But who knows what we’ll do with your characters after !” And then we get all these people saying “it’s about the journey just enjoy the game!” And is like yeah man … I really enjoyed my journey in TBC Classic and then Wotlk Classic and now look where we’re at , I can’t even play those versions of my characters I spent a bunch of time on …
That is what I am saying brother. It’s so annoying. I have no expectations. If we get permanent wrath era and permanent bc era this time. Good. But I am not holding my breath. I have blank expectations.
Like what is even the point of anniversary vanilla era? I dunno.
This is the question everyone has been asking- and Blizzard in standard fashion has essentially refused to specify any detail on this inquiry.
As things stand currently, the TBC realm that anniversary(fresh) realms will eventually ‘progress’ into, will be another ‘progression’ realm (AKA: Temporary phase before WOTLK and beyond.)
Unless Blizz explicitly states otherwise (which they haven’t as of this writing), assume that the upcoming TBC realm(s) will only be here for a limited time, just like the last time Blizz forced everyone into this same ‘expansion crawl’ as you aptly termed it.
Everyone wants TBC-Era and WOTLK-era alongside Classic-era, but alas Blizzard be the stubborn beast that it is
It is low-key kind of psychotic that they’re denying their entire playerbase with the info necessary for people to make an informed decision about where they’d like to invest their /played time.
On paper it looks like they’re attempting to generate ‘hype’ around ‘seasons/phases’ that are temporary, while disregarding that much of the player base doesn’t want to have their characters forced into subsequent expansions.
In a perfect world, players could just stop off permanently at the expansion of their choosing- and maybe later decide to clone their character to the next expac if they wanted.
But we’re getting “progression realms” meaning, none of your raid progress is really going to accumulate on anniversary realms because level cap will keep increasing.
You’re likely correct about this, yet IMO it would be much more simple to just have a separate client for each expansion’s era.
If they can figure out how to cram multiple other expansions onto era’s client, I’m sure they will do this because they seem to sadistically appreciate forcing classic-era players to continually update all of their addons despite their game version ostensibly being ‘unchanged’.
Well that goes into why they don’t want to have multiple clients. Era will always have to get patched because they still have to be able to connect bnet and the wow servers.
To some extent, yes… but that would require significantly less patching and version-changing if they weren’t also putting SoD and whatever anniversary realms are on the same client with Era. Addons would break far less frequently if the only patches Era received were to maintain connectivity to bnet/wow servers.
Don’t know if I’ve said it here yet and if blizz is reading : I will BUY character copies / clones from anniversary classic to classic era when TBC launches , also please make TBC era and Wotlk era I’ll buy more clones
Fresh Leads to TBC and if they don’t give us free Xfers to Era servers I predict a chunk of the community will quit unless they manage to make real interpersonal connections with people in their guilds or on their server.
The former is possible for most of us.
The latter is borderline impossible with 50,000 player megaservers.
I can’t speak for others but if they don’t do free Xfers to Era before TBC I’m either going back to Whitemane to level my Paladin or I’m quitting the game.
TBC holds zero interest for me, especially not the second time in three years.
No way, many Classic players will NEVER play Retal and the other way around. Having both versions is the only smart move.
Keeping us in the dark concerning the destiny of the Anniversary servers is the only stupid move here.
I couldn’t agree more , this lack of info is really pushing me away from the fresh anniversary realms and towards the safe bet of classic era , just want my argent dawn tabard cause it’s bis
