Curious as to how much money it would cost them to make a fresh Burning Crusade server and maintain it per year?
Would they lose money?
Would they gain money?
What is the reasoning behind NOT creating a fresh TBC server? (With no character boosts)
I’m really trying to think of any negative effect this would have and i’m failing to come up with any. I mean if a lot of people want a fresh server…mmm…why not just give them a fresh server?
Let the people who want to progress on the current realms stay on the realm they love, and just create another fresh realm for the people who want to start over. There’s no harm.
Does every player who wants “fresh servers” want identical rules? Or is “fresh servers” really 3 or 4 different rulesets? And what about the rules for transferring to/from these “fresh servers”? Do they have to invent many sets of rules?
Bottom line: this isn’t a customized-to-you game. Not in 2021. Not for $15/month. Activision/Blizzard isn’t in that business. If they were, it would cost a lot more.
Every one of us players has a list of “what we want” in a game, a smartphone, a computer, a website, a spouse, a job, a dessert…the list is endless. But somehow, there just isn’t a company producing any of those things.
Is that how successful businesses work? They figure out how much each product costs, and then offer every product they can possibly offer? Maybe it is. I kind of think it isn’t.
in reality nothing worth mentioning because the servers are digital devices in a virtual machine. Effectively blizzard can spin up as many realms as desired or needed. In some ways it may be less expensive to run more smaller servers than a few mega servers (without layers)
Layers are actually really just different servers that share the same name, chat, Cross realm function, and AH.
Typically not. But there are some companies that will offer customizations for customers, typically for a fee.
If we were each paying say a $10,000 setup fee, and $1500/month for server hosting, we might also be able to pay something like $150/hour for custom features, meetings to discuss them, etc.
You look at Boby Koticks potential yacht or one that he likes
you check out the profit the company made. You check out the cost of a fresh server. If the cost hurts the plethora of possible yacht pickings, its too expensive
