Speaking for myself, I didn’t want SoD to fail. I was waiting for it for months before Blizzcon and wanted to love it, but it just missed the mark in every way imaginable, and things haven’t gotten better.
It seems like as time on goes more and more people are disappointed with what SoD is and has become.
There are “season” ideas that would be fun for a lot of the people who just want a fresh now, mostly things that revolve around fleshing out unfinished content. Hardcore was good IMO.
So yeah I’ll keep posting in threads saying that I want fresh, but SoD is going to keep going for those of you who enjoy what it is.
I’d love a fresh era, I’d come back for that. I feel they’re too afraid of pissing off current era players. Those servers are more alive than you think and they’re taking in consistent revenue from them. A fresh era would vulture a lot of their own player base, causing current raiding guilds huge turnover and would kill some for sure (we already seen some of this from SoD), just to bring in fringe players that want another reset? Whose to say, I just don’t know if the numbers make as much sense as you’d think profit wise.
I legit thought this was how SoD was going to be in p1, and it has instead turned into an arms race. I am now on here advocating for things like “don’t let wings be purgeable because it causes forebearance and purge has no CD” when I never wanted wings in this version of the game to begin with.
it’s just become an arms race of comparing your class with what crazy new things the other classes get (looking at you, shaman) warriors have deathgrip now lmao
Hell, I’d love to see a fresh TBC server that phased content.
I don’t think they have ever done this have they? It would be interesting to play on one game type for a whole progression.
Say, take a new wrath server. Everyone starts level 1 on the Wrath patch cap 25 first month, then 40, 50, 60, phase 60 content, then 70, phase that content, then 80…
Throw in the SoD conent as well… Ash, BFD, ST, Blood moon…
Either:
They fell behind in the arms race that is GDKP gold and they want everyone back at square one and not just themselves
They want to “experience it again” which is impossible now that we have had 4 different versions of vanilla wow in the present day mind
They were never ahead of the GDKP players, but they want to be and have learned a lot from 2019 classic, and thus want to do it again with them on top.
They feel that the only way to experience vanilla raiding and pvp is if -everyone- starts over so they can use what they’ve learned to be ahead of them on the gear ladder.
that’s literally it. TLDR: They aren’t the best, but think they will be the best if everyone starts over again. Not realizing that the amount of people that want to start over in perpetuity are going to dwindle with each restart because people that play this game want progression.
Once I saw eclipse in phase 2 of sod I knew it was just going to be retail stuff for the rest of the season, so I quit. I don’t play a boomkin in retail, so why tf would they think I wanted to play one in sod? Give us fresh vanilla, tbc, and wrath servers!
You can tell this thread is illegitimate because OP is pretending that sod is more “retail” than TBC, when TBC added some of the worst things that ruined retail, flying being the most egregious example.
Nah, your reasons aren’t it for most, except “They want to “experience it again”” but the rest of that sentence is just your opinion.
If you get it, you get it.
By your post, it’s clear that you don’t get it.
You and some others here (it’s pretty common on these forums) like to assign negative values so that you can diminish what other people want. That’s easier than having an open mind and just accepting that “I just want to play again from the start because I liked it” is valid enough.
(Also, for the people who hate these threads, if you don’t think that these topics are valid for this forum then flag them. The mods can decide)
A fresh Era server that cycles every 2 years and allows xfer to Era for last 3 months would be wonderful for Era community.
Yes, it would splinter to some degree, but it provides a way for new people to join the community in waves and go through all the fun phases and events together.
Also most Era players can probably play a fresh character + raid log / pvp on Era if they want. I don’t think one would prevent the other, they scratch different itches and provide different and mutually beneficial experiences.
fresh is the way to go if they arent gonna do an actual classic+ that isnt complete trash.
honestly im tired of even trying with sod.
its gone beyond the pale and the only thing im looking forward to is a fresh era server that either migrates to era at 1 1/2 -2 years and starts anew or something like that or an actual real deal classic+ that doesnt take a big dump on what makes classic, classic.
I mean…what other reason would you want a whole other host of classic fresh servers when you can literally, right now, on every classic era server, make a character and just start playing? DD is doing it right now, literally go do something like that. I’m sure there are enough people, both on the forum and off, that want a fresh vanilla server to just pick a server and play with whatever ruleset they want.
