That vanilla content has to be updated to be in line with TBC content.
When you say TBC you are including the working version of Azeroth too, not just Outland.
I just don’t see them maintaining 3 different code bases.
As opposed to it becoming retail again. Yes, precisely.
Releasing TBC would just be dumb:
- The content is still live.
- Made all content in classic obsolete.
- Had lots of bad stuff: Arena, welfare epics, flying, etc.
If they release TBC servers nobody will play it, the few claiming for it will play it a month or 2 and thats gonna be it.
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That’s the thing. The hard work is done. The source codes, textures, etc…they have them!
All they have to do is retrofit it to the current engine and voila! TBC!
Being that they figured out so much doing this with Classic, it would be a breeze for them.
As for migrating characters, I’m sure Blizzard could figure out a go-between. Personally I wouldn’t mind leveling a new toon in TBC. Otherwise you’re only getting 10 levels worth of content. It’d hit the end-game wall a lot faster than Classic will.
I couldn’t agree more with point #2. The negating previous content is the biggest issue. It turns the world of warcraft into the world of outland.
Well yeah that’s the plan.
I’m sure Blizzards stakeholders don’t want to throw any more money than they have to into this “passion project”
Just enjoy your time in CLASSIC. We don’t know the future. Blizzard could go to zero tomorrow and we’ll have no wow anymore.
I’m pretty tired of people projecting their own view of WOW Classic viability. Maybe YOU won’t want to play the moment you’ve finished Naxx or got all your T3, unless more content is provided, but that’s not every player. Some won’t even get inside Naxx for a year or more past the last phase. Some don’t care about Naxx, and PvP has no real end point of being done other than it isn’t fun any more. Some of us love the alt game and leveling in different ways.
Flip your question around.
You want last phase of classic wow to come out with nax, and after that ruin the ability of slower players to enjoy it at their pace, ruin the ability of completionists to ever feel done, ruin the entirety of the idea that WOW Classic is a museum piece, a recreation of vanilla?
Personally, as I’ve said multiple times, I hope to see TBC Classic, but as completely separate realms that allow me to log in and decide whether I want to play WOW Classic or TBC Classic, with no connection between the two.
I wouldn’t oppose the Classic+ or wannabe OSRS copy IF Blizzard did it as completely separate servers with a one-way character transfer, leaving the WOW Classic realms pure. However, I suspect your real enemy on this will be the Retail only players, the ones who would see Blizzard building a content development for Classic as a violation of the promise that WOW Classic would not cut into Retail development of BfA and beyond.
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I don’t think that is the case at all.
Their goal with this is to not only give people that experience, but to not make some of the same mistakes they made before. They are trying to back their way into another 10+ years of residual income.
Just curious, do you re-level your character from level 1 in every other expansion?
Thats pretty much it. No more Classic, because they didnt make more.
They will (at that point maybe 2 years from now) release TBC again, and we keep going.
2 years is a long time for any game’s life these days, and it wont ‘die’. Many many many pserver players are proof of that.
Well…I know quite a few people that would disagree with that statement. In fact, I’ve seen many times where TBC is touted as WoW’s high point.
@Gnomanity
What’s wrong with a game with a definite ending? a definite ceiling in power? Does a game need nonstop content shoveled in to keep your attention?
There’s plenty to do in Classic, long before you complete every raid, and the completion of all raids isn’t everything WoW Classic has to offer. Look about, there’s plenty of things to keep you busy! You have but to explore.
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Actually, in a way, I do. I made a new toon in TBC which was a Drenai, a race previously unavailable. In WotLK, I rolled a DK. I’ve made several toons at every xpac I’ve played, carrying over only 2 throughout the experience.
Don’t you enjoy the journey? Or are you one of those that simply race to see end game?
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Expansions. Expansions. Please let there be Expansions. Or I’ll probably go back to retail.
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You literally are a literal zandalari that can literally access BFA and can view the literal outcome of 15 years of “buh mai qol” arguments from players that have crushed this game’s soul.
Smh
Off with you. Literally.
I enjoy the journey I just like progression. Starting over each time isn’t progressing, it’s starting over.
If I level more than 1 character in Classic it’s for a purpose, not to just do it for funsies.
The point is, I am willing to guess that most people will not in any way want to have classic characters, then more servers with retail, and then more with TBC…all of which can’t share items, gold, or anything else.
Reported, private servers are a violation of the ToS. The ToS are in plave to ensure a safe, fun environment for everyone.
Then here’s a solution.
Make half of current Classic servers progress into TBC, the other half remain Classic.
Offer free transfers for those that want them (either to or away).
Bam! Problem solved. Now you have both TBC (or Progression servers) and Classic servers.
There’s almost infinite replay value with alts, chasing gear, professions, pvp, helping friends, etc. Certainly more than enough for years worth of enjoyment.
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Nearly 10 years of private server activity shows that there is an interest in playing beyond the 2 year mark…
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That might be a perfectly good solution.