Fresh Start Servers?

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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There is a community of players who hope so - similar to how there were a community of RPers who hoped to see RP servers (specifically rp-pvp) spun up and it eventually happened.

Sounds like the same reasoning for why RP servers currently exist… But the ball is in Blizzard’s court.

Long term does matter, I get that. Right now blizzard uses a cycling between shiny new content, and “luls” in subscriptions and store purchases after that content has become stale kind of business model.

I am not against the boosts - I think they will bring new players into the game which is good for classic as a whole (classic, tbc, wrath etc). However, by its very design boosting and some of these other changes stand to shorten the longevity of TBC. Instant gratification, boosts to 58, etc… will allow players to hit the end and “finish it all” (in phase 1 at least) earlier, creating the lul in subs as people grow bored…

It can be argued that, for this reason, these changes are bad for the longevity of wow classic tbc.

Yes, they are not hurting. The pandemic has actually helped them, arguably. They have posted higher proceeds etc…
Not to mention now that the servers are all “in the clouds” spinning them up takes a minute amount of resources, and the resources required for each server can fluctuate depending on how much traffic and use they are enduring… Unlike old school hardware which was more expensive to spin up and costed the same regardless, assuming the specs were the same.

I see your point on it, but I actually appreciate the emboldened text… That said, it is for an entirely different reason. I am old and my eyes are slowly on their way out, lol.

I 100% feel your pain, just uprooted myself and our guild from Incendius (which at one point was the third most popular server behind Faerlina and Herod -basically right there with whitemane trading spots until whiteman overtook it. It had 53% horde and 47% alliance faction balance - it was a utopian server, you might say until blizzard offerd some free transfers and it ended up like Stalaag, and several others.

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Buy some reading glasses.

Makes all the difference.

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Classic servers will progress to TBC. If you want to play on a Classic server you will need to install the Classic game client. Which means Classic and TBCC will be completely separate games. Choosing to play Classic and not progress means you will need to install the Classic game client on May 18th.

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I did at one point, and no doubt they are around here… somewhere- for all the good they are doing anyone. lol

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Roll us up some fresh servers

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your 14.99 will be missed

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still no blue post on any of the fresh server threads

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One thing I want to set perfectly straight:

the servers that ActiBli$$ion use are Hewlett-Packard, as-cheap-as-possible servers. The Classic servers were as cheap as they go. ActiBli$$ion could throw out blades (blade systems) faster than it took those two engineers to polish off that mount and two toys (probably a day).

Creating a few fresh servers…with the blades I could probably do it myself. Literally a few servers with reset 1s and zero economy. Everything clean. It would be way easier than the route they’re taking with "Retail TBC."

All I can ascertain is straight up, ActiBli$$ion doesn’t want to say one way or another. The forum moderators just send messages from the higher ups. ActiBli$$ion has terrible customer service set up. That I can also be sure of. I have become involved with the forums voicing my opinion about fresh servers, and man we used to get blue responses far more often on lesser topics.

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I know, right?! I remember starting a similar thread for player housing. All we wanted were condos overlooking Stormwind Park. We even offered to pay ActiBli$$ion HOA fees!

Every single day, myself and a few of my friends posted with all of our alts, and soon it was the biggest thread ever!

They still didn’t respond. Which was really sad.

But you know what? It was totally fine because we continued to play and have a great time anyways.

Still, I do hope you get your coveted Blue Response! What a feather in your cap that would be!

Don’t give up! Keep posting on all your alts every single day! It’ll happen! wink-wink

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Seriously. Who hurt you, “Anne?” Because fresh supporters have a presence, we must all be posting on all of our alts every single day.

Boo-hoo, Anne. Yes. I for one will continue to go after a blue response, fresh servers.

Unfortunately for you, you don’t control me. All of your posts are nothing but pointless, tasteless attempts at attention.

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Tasteless? I had a lot of fun writing that. Lol’d a lot. It was just some silly fun. To me anyway. Sorry for any affront taken, but wow, you are rather entitled!

If you want to talk tasteless (I sure don’t), I would refer you back to all those feet posts we endured.

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Fresh servers with no boost will never happen. Maybe some fresh servers if TBC is huge hit and many servers stay poulated for a few months

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any blue post would be welcome about fresh

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They already talked about it during the TBC announcement Q&A. They said they’d consider it at a later date(After TBC launch was implied). My guess is its flat out not happening. You guys should just play TBC, all your arguments about why fresh is needed are bad but there is no way to convince you.

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disagree.

  1. its a new game
  2. 2 new races, so far behind the gold making curve that if they dont get fresh, they’ll never catch up
  3. economy’s ruined
  4. most proponents of fresh on the forums are willing to pay a fee for fresh
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All these arguments are wrong. See how easy that was, move on.

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move yourself, mr. sassy pants. :rofl:

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Mr. Sassy pants has, FRESH complainers have not.

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requesters. :grin:

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Losers. /10char