seems that private servers have put blizz to shame recently. an iteration of classic+ people say is way better than sod and now a tbc realm. blizz can you not just give us a tbc fresh and a decent classic+? apparently thats all us as a community really want… for the most part of us. dont let the private servers out play you. is it already gg and blizz L2P how to listen to the community? or has it just been that since 10 yrs ago? cant tell
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I don’t think there’s a large population that wants a TBC server. Just a vocal group of people. It would be a complete failure.
They just need to release a vanilla classic fresh. Classic+ would obviously be designed horribly and fail, but the idea itself is very good. They would just need people that understand how classic works to design it. Which I don’t feel they would ever have on staff.
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I don’t agree with you here… success and failure mean different things to different people. Having (somewhat) recently found my home on an otherwise dead server, I know full well that you don’t need to have a lot of players to have a successful community.
Would TBC be the same population it was on launch? Probably not… but it absolutely would have enough to sustain a raiding population so that people who truly enjoy that version of the game could do so.
At the end of the day though, if TBC isn’t your jam, just don’t play it. There’s zero impact on you, really. A lot of us though, we’d value having it, even we aren’t going to spend all our time there. For me, Era is my forever home, but I would appreciate being able to spend some time in TBC these days.
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Yes, to a point. But at the same time, we all know the classic team has very limited resources. So if they focus on TBC classic, that means the things I think more people want get put off for substantially more time. That affects me, so I have a rational reason to stand against TBC classic.
I’m certainly bias, as I quit wow initially when TBC came out because it destroyed everything good about vanilla. To me, it’s just retail.
Is it one where, “According to Population Graph at 28/04/2024 were 321 players, but at05/05/2024 were 322 players!!!”
Private servers do these things better…
- In game GMs
- Updated content and hot fixes at a much quicker rate.
- Ban gold buyers, gold sellers, and bots.
- Better communication.
All from their mom’s basement with 1/100000000 of Blizzards budget.
Pretty impressive
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What resources do you think a TBC Era server would require and how do you think that would impact the existing Classic Era servers?
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People using other people’s work to make money? Yeah, that’s impressive alright. And I don’t mean that in a sarcastic way. It is impressive that Blizzard created a franchise as popular as Warcraft. It’s very impressive that people spent time developing an open source codebase to run the entire backend powering the WoW Client, and it’s impressive that other people use those things to develop their own online businesses.
It’s also impressive that they don’t take some of those things and make new or different IP.
The Classic+ private server is Turtle WoW, for those reading at home.
What is the TBC realm? I’ve been fiendin’
Consider a moment how Blizzard builds games now days.
They build new games by committee (effectively) this means its the input of the Raid community, the streamer community, the Devs own desires and also the “Forums”.
Each of these groups wants something different within themselves for that matter so with that said you get SOD as the net output from that mess.
Its a mistake to think Blizzard can output a good “NEW” game now days.
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What are the best private servers to play on (BC or Wrath)?? Im thinking about switching over. Playing for Blizzard is just a waste at this point. And no dont tell me to google it. I want you to tell me right here in the forums.
Spoken like a true blizzard fanboi. You cant deny that pservers have been doing it better for years now. We are aware that there are only 5 devs currently working on all versions of wow. Which is way we’re getting this piss poor versions of wow. SoD started off amazing, the minute that team go pull away to finish work on Woltk. Sod actually suffered, and it hasnt recovered.
People have been asking for years for a TBC fresh server, even though I am sure it will fail. Give the people what they want Era versions of TBC/Wrath.
Fresh Era will end up just as the current one is. A giant GDKP/Bot mess. Blizzard aint going to support it. Unless, they raise the monthly fee. LOL
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If that’s what I actually thought, I wouldn’t have an active subscription that allowed me to post on these forums… obviously.
So, you have no idea what we’re talking about then?
Only reason I have an active sub is cuz I’m still enjoying SOD. I hate Retail, Woltk and Era is blah to me. I have a r14 hunter in full naxx gear.
Once SoD dies out if blizzard doesnt have anything else interesting. I will end my sub and go play TW or Ascension.
In what regard? You may have no idea what I’m talking about; and that’s fine.
OK.
Oh, OK.
OK.
I see.
Oh, alright. Thank you for commenting in reply to me to let me know.
Sure, anytime.
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Nobody cares about your moral posturing.
It was truly magnificent what they did before they all left the company. I fondly recall the early days of WoW.
Agreed. The private server community has moved mountains in pursuit of their goals. Truly impressive stuff and it only gets more refined as days go by.
An excellent example of competition in an economic sector.
This seems like a waste of resources when the current solution is profitable.
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You seem to, but it’s actually not moral posturing. I think that is a genuinely impressive thing.
Yes, it absolutely was. What a franchise they created. Out of a time and era where they envisioned something that would become what we have been able to enjoy for the past 20 years (and going).
Same, and I still fondly enjoy WoW, in many of its iterations.
I don’t think this can easily be overstated.
It’s an OK one, I suppose. I think it’s impressive how well designed WoW is for the space it occupies. There are some incredible systems that have developed over the years, and yet they also did a really great job with the original iteration.
Well, that’s an interesting thing. Of course it’s much less resource intensive to use other people’s work than to pioneer something new.
This is the most polite multi-quoted comment that I’ve ever seen. I’ve finished reading it and I’m literally still trying to uncover some hidden sarcasm.
You people will just call everything you don’t like retail and just not elaborate further.
Go on, what makes tbc retail, I’m very curious.