Private servers certainly crack down on cheating better than blizzard, and I like the original client better also. Not sure what it is with the old client, it just plays smoother some how and also has a feel that this new one does not replicate, but to blizzards credit, this is really close.
I imagine if they had a better budget and more staff the accuracy could be even better.
Let’s hope that TBC is even better and when Classic WoW season 2 “Fresh” servers do show up, they will be even better than the first iteration.
Nano has been a well known consultant to blizzard and has confirmed it multiple times. That is as good as an official announcement. Blizzard has polled players twice about it. That also serves as confirmation. Take the blinders off.
Nothing is guaranteed, not even if they announce it. But it’s pretty weird to think there’s not a very good chance given that they’ve been polling players about it and how massively successful Classic was and still is.
There’s no reason not to talk about it as if it’s going to happen. There’s been no indication from Blizzard it’s not already being worked on.
There is a lot of reasons it may not happen. TBC introduces competitive arena gameplay which will result in demands it be balanced. If Blizzard goes down this road they are opening the door to having to balance multiple iterations of the game.
Classic and Retail did not overlap much either. TBC arena may poach many players from retail that feel their class/spec is in the doldrums.
There are many considerations here and I doubt it is guaranteed at all that their will be TBC Classic. 50/50 at best imo.
I just do not agree. Yes, there is a competitive environment, but I strongly doubt there will be any significant balancing (mostly just hotfixes for bugs) as it’s better to be a known quantity. Anyone who is serious about PvE or PvP will swap to the better classes/specs, regardless of what they play now.
I myself am somewhat serious - and more than willing to get sweaty for TBC - but I will likely take one of the least desirable PvE classes into the expansion because I want to play it.
I see fresh TBC or fresh Classic, thats the way I read the survey. I see Bliz not wanting to have the expense and hassle of moving all these characters.
It’s incredibly unlikely they decide not to allow players the option of keeping their mains. Forced fresh would murder peoples’ interests in continuing to play, as I would think not everyone would support having to start over all over again - especially after how much work people put into their characters.
Just because some people want to start from scratch and have everyone on the same footing doesn’t mean the same is true for everyone.
I mean, I don’t know how expensive it would be. I guess that’s a factor.
If we talk about the simplest form of transfer, then it would probably be the faction, race, reputations, BoP items, skills, spells, abilities, quests, discovered locations…
I don’t think it would be hard for them to add gold and other items to that program.
Years I’m sure. Maybe even decades. If people are still playing Diablo 2 imagine how long they’ll play vanilla. It won’t be about raid content for those that stick around. It’ll be more about the realm community and it may become more of a world PvP sandbox. I’m interested to see what happens.
Well it would eventually become necessary to merge servers, but even some of the larger servers would have enough to run Naxxramas for probably several years. You have to understand there are people that want multiple characters in full t3 and Naxx gear. That’s going to take quite a while and I know there are plenty of people dedicated to that. It’s a minority of players for sure, but certainly enough to keep it going.
Diablo 2 is a very different game to Naxx. You do have a point, but Naxx requires 40 people whereas Diablo 2 can be a solo thing. The time investment of Naxx is arguably way higher than D2 too.
Multiple characters in full t3 and Naxx gear wouldn’t even take a year.
And you paid what for classic? nothing. Just the sub fee. They are either gonna roll the classic servers over to tbc in mass or they will launch tbc fresh if there is enough pushback from those staying classic about doing their toons all over again. that would be what is easiest and cheapest for them.
My time is a lot more valuable than yours if you think abandoning what you’ve worked for isn’t a loss. I want to keep my characters and take them into TBC.