I’ve had a couple of conversations with this person, and they never know what they are talking about. Will literally go beyond logic in order to try and sound correct but ends up just spewing gibberish.
Another factor in all of this is how much fragmentation can the game tolerate and how many versions of the game does Blizzard want to be actively supporting?
Can they handle Retail and Classic? Yes. Beyond that we do not know. For each additional expansion that we add, we fragment the player base. We also fragment company resources.
So even if they do become interested in developing other Classic like servers, it is going to be a slow process. As they are going to have to evaluate a lot of different metrics.
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I cant agree.
Not only would it fracture the player base even further than classic/retail has already done. But what would happen to duplicate names when classic players that want to move to TBC servers run into somone else from another server with the same name?
If you are suggesting that you would just start fresh as a new level 1 on TBC servers…again, I dont see it happening. The cost of maintaining triple the servers (classic, TBC, retail) isnt something I see a business wanting to do. Nor do I foresee Classic players wanting to give up their characters and reputations of 2+years to play a “sped up” vanilla 1-60 only to experience TBC for the last 10 levels.
You wont end up in retail, you will end up in WotLK (the pinnacle of WoWs subscription base). Thats a 6+ year journey from classic to WotLK and it marks 20 years of lifespan for this mmorpg.
there will be more than enough people to play on both versions with.
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Very simple. Allow character copy before they open servers similar to the name reservation thing. Tie one server form classic to one server on tbc so you can’t just hop off. After this window if you haven’t transferred your character it’s on you.
The problem with that is you have half the population of a server on classic and the other half on a TBC server yet blizzard is paying to maintain both servers at low population. It wont happen from a business standpoint.
What? Are you suggesting classic and tbc can’t withstand to hold onto one servers worth of population?
Do you understand just how dumb of a prediction that is given the last 6 years or so?
It isnt one servers worth of population because no one is giving up their character names to be consolidated onto one server.
Okay you’re going to have to stop bouncing all over the place. What are you arguing for, people’s names or classic servers being dead. You have to pick one and stick to it, this is how you discuss things.
I’m well aware that Ion wasn’t responsible for changes made in the game until at least post Cata. FYI I never had an issue with flying…that was mainly the wpvp whiners. Yes there are some people who blame flying for a certain degree of lack of social interaction but IMO that’s simply not true
Blizz loves PvP. Taking BC gear into Classic world PvP will destroy the Classic world PvP experience.
It would be very easy for them to give us a character copy to new tbc realms. I’m sure they wouldn’t force leveling all over again. They would want a TBC-like launch to recreate the first expansion’s experience.
Ill try to talk slower.
If a classic server has 10,000 people and 9,000 move to a TBC server, that leaves 1,000 people playing on that classic server.
That classic server is now at a unhealthy population and that is where it will stay unless the classic servers are consolidated, resulting in people losing their character names of 2+ years. No one is going to stand for that.
World PvP is near dead when battlegrounds get released in classic phase 2 anyway.
I guess you can do it that way, but then classic realms would have very few or no players on them.
Trust me that’s not the problem lol it’s that you don’t know how to talk.
These are two separate problems. Let’s just assume the first instance happened even though that’s a grossly exaggerated number. They have two options, either leave the server at a low pop, or server merge. Not sure if you understand server merges or not, but when they happen you DO keep your name. This won’t be ideal, but if it came to a point in classics life where there is barely anyone there you will HAVE to server merge, eventually to a point where they will all basically be merged together making ‘one server’. But this time will come way later than a TBC server being brought in.
TBC will not bring so many people out of classic that even with the worst case scenario they are left with less than ‘one server’s’ worth of people. Do you get?
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I dont agree.
Based on WoW’s 14 year history (fact) people unsubscribe from the game when there are content droughts.
The amount of people willing to stay subscribed to classic WoW with a guarantee of no new content ever is extremely small.
Remember, people are paying to play this. It isnt free like a private server.
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It’s a good point. People won’t want to lose their names. So perhaps Blizz would have to do a correlated version of each server. Herod TBC, Pagle TBC, etc. But then you’re assuming the two versions will have similar playerbase numbers.
There’s definitely a lot of factors to consider.
All TBC private servers die in a few months because the game has nothing to do but raid.
WOTLK private servers basically don’t exist because it’s basically retail WoW.
Don’t understand why it just can’t be a Spec you turn on. Poof your with all like mined toons.
Turn off XP at 70 and run Heroic DGs with your Guild in a 70’s Raid …
Equip Epics and have fun…
The Xpac has very little to do with your issue of wanting a " " server… You don’t want to do the work to make it happen.
If that you may not want to waste your time, but even that.