For wrath they did the Fresh launch coinciding with pre-patch.
The result was you had not only the people that wanted to commit to fresh, but also vacationers with no intent to stay but just wanting something to tide them over til launch that was at least a piece of the early overpopulation and then exodus.
People would hate it, but I think if it had any chance at all to work you’d have to delay ‘fresh’ until actual Cata launch.
And tbh, even then I don’t give it great odds of success just with where the community and overall population numbers are.
I’d be pretty surprised if Blizz tried it again at all, and I’d be more surprised if it led to a sustainable server pop.
Personally I don’t feel like losing everything I farmed for since Classic so I’ll pass, but I don’t see why not add a fresh server for those who are interested in it or for those who enjoy the Fresh hype to then transfer to mega server once the hype is over.
Cataclysm should only be fresh realms in the first place: A Better Way To Do Cataclysm
(I left the link open this time since a certain “helpful” clown wants to keep posting about it.)
That’s not what you were talking about; rolling a new character on a server that’s been around since 2019 is going to have a vastly different ingame economy to work with than a brand new server, made much clearer by how much botting has gone on since 2019.
It doesn’t even need to go that far; think about how much stuff like Silver/Gold Rods are going to be selling for on a server where no one’s done a single Wrath daily at 80, much less the millions of gold you’ll see on the bigger servers right now.
I’m not against having more servers. I’m just taking into consideration the practical problem of having multiple servers to solve every problem.
So there are people who want era, tbc, wrath, cat and retail servers that just keep going release to release and there are people who want fresh servers for all of those expansions. Others want servers that do not move on to the next one so double that.
Then what happens after a year goes by? Now you have the 1st generation still there, the 2nd genration is now getting “long of tooth”, and someone will be calling for new fresh servers. Next year same thing.
So do the number of servers just keep growing or is there some point when any of those can be deleted?
Sod fresh worked and fresh doesn’t really work when their is a distinct advantage to an older server. You can prob make a ton of gold selling mats on a older server, you can get free carries more frequently. The reason people want fresh tbc is that if blizzard announced a some-changes tbc server it would have to be fresh, unless they had the data.
When there is a choice between fresh and old servers the rational pick is the old servers the money, the stuff, the higher geared players. When fresh is the only option like in som, and sod well it was nice to do, I mean the only other thing that might work for fresh would be if they skipped past mop and went right to legion classic with it dropping as a fresh server.
