Agreed, character progression is the whole point of a MMORPG.
Most of the people (off of these forums) I know expect for TBC to be released and expect to be able to use the same characters. The gold cap topic is still up for debate universally.
It’s unlikely that Blizzard will want to upset their core player base by telling everyone that they are unable to progress their current characters.
I can’t see that happening and so my assumption whenever/if TBC is announced is at the least people will have a chance to play their current characters and there will be a few “fresh server” places to go as well.
The best thing about the likely upcoming TBC announcement will be stopping this endless debate.
Not necessarily. A huge part of the population came back to classic with the expectation of it being a museum piece they can log onto and play whenever they want for years to come. Those people want to keep their accomplishments relevant in classic instead of moving on to tbc and rendering pretty much all of it pointless (except pvp titles and scarab mount) and replacing everything they worked for within months.
Their core for classic are exactly the people who didn’t want to progress their characters to retail. Forcing us to TBC is spitting in our faces. Fresh TBC servers solves that problem. It leaves our classic characters alone and let’s people who want to play TBC play TBC.
If we get fresh tbc servers and progression tbc servers while keeping these current classic servers at 1.13 forever, no one is getting spat on yeah? It will keep everyone happy or no?
Sure. It depends on how Blizzard implements it. If you choose to transfer your classic to a TBC server, cool. If if forces your classic to a tbc server unless you log in to transfer in time, not cool.
I have seen a lot of people ask to have their characters on the classic server forever and a copy on a TBC server to progress with. I would also like this. And it also makes the most sense.
Well I agree with you in a way Dot because I’m one of those who prefers Vanilla/Classic to TBC. I want to choice to keep some of my characters on “Classic Vanilla” servers at least.
I’m just not sure how well “fresh TBC servers” will go over with the majority of the current player base.
We’re all playing Classic and enjoying it. Many of us asked for it. If you have saved a whole bunch of gold and leveled several characters to 60, rest assured: Your accomplishments will be preserved in Classic for an indeterminate period of time.
If you want to play TBC, then you’re going to have make some decisions. Classic is what it is, and if you’ve been playing it only to have an advantage in TBC because that’s the version of the game you really want to be playing, then you might find yourself having a bad time.
This is a tough choice as a fresh start imo only makes sense if blizz cracks down on bots/gold buyers/exploits. My in-between recommendation is time gate epic flying and some patterns.
So pros and cons
Pros
high population will be spread out (assuming alliance stay alliance)
no gold inflation making newcomers more welcome
screws over gold sellers making sellers needing to reset shop. Makes buyers wary as tbc gold may also not carry over to Wotlk making buying less appealing. Also less appealing to buy in classic in preparation for tbc.
Cons
could make the horde/alliance balance even worse.
some people hate lvling
without blizz cracking down on bots/sellers/exploits it’s only a matter of time.
If you want fresh realms as an option, sure. Mandatory? Hell no. Not everyone wants to restart; some people actually accomplished things and spent most of Classic preparing for the future.
You guys are over-thinking this. Blizzard will choose the path that keeps the most money rolling in (which means keeping the most people happy). Progressing into TBC keeps entire server communities intact. This is important. Having an option for people that want to stay in Vanilla or start fresh in TBC is also important. There is absolutely no reason for them not to do it this way.
Thats happening anyway. Its unavoidable unless blizz puts in faction caps and faction based queues then sets concurrent players low enough to make it so most horde literally can’t play
This form of “give me exactly what I want or I’ll never play, (i play a lot btw)” ultimatum with full confidence comes off really pretentious. Declaring baseless claims like “fresh is the ONLY way” as if that is what all players want is even worse.