Classic WoW servers came out during TBC for the first time.
Blizzard wanted to end Pservers and profit off of the Classic crowd. Even though Classic servers will die, there will be more people trying out TBC than Classic when it does.
Those who are concerned with “splitting the population” have literally nothing to worry about. It’s a fear and not a reality.
People are already divided… In their own social circles, their own guilds, the faction they choose, the server they picked, if they’re playing Classic or BFA, among the different MMOs on the market, what game genre they choose to play, and then you have gamers and non-gamers.
Having TBC servers open up is going to take players from both BFA and TBC, it still gives Blizzard money. It doesn’t divide the playerbase because they will probably replicate a similar launch to Classic, regardless of your opinion.
That means that there will be full servers.
Then we have the problem with Wrath. Same thing. Just keep TBC and Wrath servers.
Through all of this said they should allow something:
For players to progress their characters to the next expansion if they want. It’s a free one way server transfer. This way no gets to restart and everything you did carries over.
Some might not agree on this part. They would want a fresh restart but lvling to 60 is already a task. You can’t ask us to lvl to 70 in TBC then to restart and lvl to 80 when Wrath hits… Blizzard will make the $$$ anyways. Let’s just enjoy Classic.
I’m not worried about populations, but if we’re really gonna start going down the path of re-releasing expansions, Blizzard should re-imagine some things and sell TBC as a retail game.
Updated visuals, the newest spell animations, Transmog. Vanilla is sacred but TBC is not. Make the changes and charge me $60, I swear to GAWD I’ll pay.
“Come on bro man what we gonna do after last raid a Classic?! I mean, I didn’t do MC or anything but bro…bro…Classic+bro” - Classic+ Make-A-Wish Players.
We already got a fairly pure Classic, you don’t get to replay everything on your terms, and Blizzard just might assume that releasing a straight clone of TBC could be kind of boring.
Classic is an exception because it’s the base WoW title, expansions aren’t fundamentally sacred. Go play YOUR game if you don’t wanna try new things.
BC was and is not sacred. Classic is wows original title/state. They didn’t want pservers so they gave us classic. People will play these classic servers legit forever. Just look at pservers, they never stopped being a thing. All BC was is a gateway drug to the mess we now call retail. IF blizz re launches BC you can bet they will leave classic servers.
I’m a little curious how they’ll handle this. Will there be a TBC ‘version’ of each server? With the same name perhaps. Particularly if there’s a transfer (or better yet copy) of your character. Players will want to maintain their character’s name. Same as guilds. You don’t want to just break them all up. And I don’t think it’s very fair to expect players to start from scratch in the event a TBC server is made.
As far as some of these ‘changes’ people are asking for in TBC…the same design philosophy should be applied as was used for Classic. In other words: TBC means TBC.
I figure that’s the most balanced option. Offer new TBC servers with free transfers. They may have to do some server migrations after that to maintain populations, but I have no issues with that.
And no, no “retail” version of TBC. many of us liked TBC the way it was, just like the vanilla players. Hate to sound trope, but retail is that way. Classic is about the early experience, and I for one am looking forward to the TBC and wrath experiences, not retail.