New Servers idea (Retro/Premium)

Only if all characters are named Holly.

  1. Nobody asked them to pay 35 dollars for classic.
  2. Except it would be an extra 20 dollars for the exact same game except minus content. It’d be like if there was a version of TWW I could buy for an extra 15 dollars that prevented me from running raids.

And abandon their home and new friends they’ve made? You say this like transferring servers is no big deal.

Yes. Other games such as Everquest do it every year and make bank because of it. There are 25+ expansions in everquest but thousands of players reroll on a new TLP server each year to play the expansions that they loved before the expansions that introduced mechanics and systems that they didnt enjoy. This is the reason Everquest has actually survived, and Holly was the architect behind the system. And her ideas are the reason some of the most recent additions to WoW have actually occurred.

Yes people will pay and play WoW because it is WoW…and there are 10’s of millions of people who have played it over the last 20 years. Many of them don’t play anymore for a dozens of reasons, and if the devs find something that a few hundred thousands or more agree is the reason they stopped playing, and made a server that took that away, it would bring back players and current players will try just because its something new.

The MMO market is a ghost town right now…tried and true MMO’s can throw anything new out and people will try because they WANT to find a home.

What follows is a description of how they do not actually do this, but instead something akin to classic. Not an upcharge on less content. What you want is already here, push higher or don’t run M+ as you desire.

If they are happy with their friends, then they wouldn’t leave? Those that play WoW for friendship and because of relationships they have encountered aren’t really looking for the same thing as someone who is looking for the “playing” experience that they are missing.

You can stay connected with friends a million ways now. Discord, battlenet, etc. There are plenty of people who have become lifelong friends and still stay connected. I have friends in my discord servers who I use to raid with in older expansions that play classic while others play live. You aren’t going to play a MMO for this many years and think you are going to be able to stay in one place forever and remain happy (minus the 1% that have done this).

If a new server ruleset sparks interest and excitement, then whats the harm. You can make additional friends…its not a “You must stay with me or nothing” requirement.

They’ll have to if they want to push M+.

Sorry OP. If Blizz wants to change it up, that’s on them. Not sure I want to pay a premium to avoid content I already avoid for free.

Nope. Some servers are “classic” while other servers have started 15 expansions into the game. Some people want classic expansions, other players want to play the more newer expansions with all the adjustments and changes, but they want to play it on equal footing as other players instead of playing catch up to players who have 25 years of history on their characters.

The year prior they released a server where they capped your level but allowed you to unlock expansions that were 10 levels higher, so you were able to raid bosses that were drastically harder then what was normal to provide challenge for those players that wanted it (kinda like my server 2 idea for Mythic + players).

There are plenty of ways to create experience that interest gamers. WoW has 100x the playerbase and way more people to interest (as well as spend money in doing so).