Quote responses to Mktaar
Playing WotLK alone would be a horrible experience as you’d never be able to do group content and it honestly sounds like that there’d be nothing to do as a solo.
Yes but it’s the question of player retention, how long will those players actually play before they stop playing for weeks/months at a time. How long until the AH is barely functioning or how long it’ll take until the last raid is done.
We have SoD, Hardcore and Era currently.
SoM servers are now SoD servers.
I don’t think them adding Hardcore to WotLK is a good idea, there’s always the addon for it no need for a server.
SoM is pretty much nothing new
WotLK SoD is never going to happen, or at least not for a long time. There’s simply no way that Blizzard would spare the resources to have devs spend time on WotLK SoD while they’re working on Classic SoD, Cataclysm and Retail. There’s no way that they’d spread their workforce so thin.
SoM and Hardcore had no changes, or at least no significant changes.
I am curious are you going to post about WotLK era servers once Cataclysm is here?
We were only promised Classic Era servers, “Experience the world before the Cataclysm” is or was the tagline and they delieverd. They gave us Classic which lead to Classic Era and we can now experience what Azeroth was like before the Cataclysm. Them making Classic Era servers was their promise to us, the players.
TBC didn’t get an Era server so it was obvious at that point that they’re done with Era servers and that they don’t want to incur the increased server cost no matter how much or how little it was. That as an MMO having less options is better, that people don’t want a forever server because they don’t want to play the same game forever, that they need and incentive to play, which is why SoM/D exists.
When people were using the Hardcore addon in Classic Era servers people started playing Classic Era again after the servers were dead for months and months at that point. The players found something “new”, something worth going back to Classic Era for but the issue with the addon was that it was impacting both the old players returning and the new players checking things out. It impacted the AH, impacted player interactions and it impacted grouping for dungeons so, Blizzard made a Hardcore server. Having a Hardcore server for WotLK makes no sense, there’s little no people doing hardcore WotLK, I think I recall one person saying that their raid does or did it at some point but a server shouldn’t be made for a raids worth of people.
They’ve stated that there’s currently no plans for a WotLK Era server and that they’re looking at our feedback so who knows, maybe they do add WotLK Era servers, would honestly be unfair to those that want TBC Era servers and I 100% don’t see them doing both at the same time let alone one for every expansion after but who knows, maybe they’ll change their mind, I honestly think they won’t but who knows.