I have seen a few posts about era server requests. How many people are interested in this? Everyone has their favorite flavor of WoW. I feel blizzard would profit from keeping era / expansion servers alive. People that just want to play TBC just play on TBC with rotating fresh. And same goes for Vanilla , WoTLK. I think plenty of players have left to go play private servers of their favorite expansion.
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Blizzard is probably correct that the demand for a âTBCC 4everâ server (that is, sufficient demand to justify the expense) just isnât there.
Of course, Blizzard would just hilariously bungle the implementation of âTBCC 4everâ server(s) anyway, but setting aside their thunderstriking incompetence temporarily, theyâre probably right on this.
How would Blizzard profit from having Era servers?
By holding onto subs for that expansion. A lot of people followed the Vanilla streamers in cancelling their subs over the situation of Vanilla era servers. Private server discords are proof of this IMO. So and So dev starts a project for a fresh era server and you get 5-10k players on that private server for months.
What situation? Those servers are still around.
requesting people to pay initially to keep their characters on a game they already pay subs for
I can understand and appreciate that. However, obviously thereâs still players, right?
The problem with keeping TBCC Era Servers is that youâre splitting the playerbase more. This would be further problematic when players start quitting over the changes to Lich King âClassicâ
you are probably right. I think âprofitâ was the wrong word there. Maybe sustain subs rather than profit
All Blizzard has done since Classic launch has been to split the player base, repeatedly. That seems to be their entire objective, as evidenced by their continued launching of new iterations of Classic before players are done with the current one.
I donât think the Playerbase being split upon Wotlk is an issue. I believe theres going to be plenty of returning players that would also rather play Blizzard Wotlk over Private server. But I understand what youâre saying. TBCC just adds to the pool they have to manage along with SOM, Vanilla, Retail. Its just one of those things we would have to wait and see someday
I agree that Blizzard has made several bad choices in Classicâs lifetime, and they continue doing so today. However, by effectively providing another game (So weâd have Classic, TBCC, LK, and Retail) youâre splitting it even more. Classic Era Servers WERE promised to be maintained as long as people were still playing on them. I understand the desire some people have, but I am unable to see the actual benefit for having these servers.
The question is, what is the sustainability of those returning subscribers? We saw it with Classic initially where a lot of the hype was just, that, it was hype, and fairly quickly faded away for many, and they left the game.
I also donât know if thereâd be as many players willing to pay Blizzard instead of playing on a private server these days, especially for LK content, given the amount of changes many disagree with.
And thatâs one of the biggest issues, as well. Blizzard doesnât have infinite resources, and if they keep releasing servers, one or more of the games are going to suffer as a result.
I hate to say it, but I really hope we donât see it, because as Iâm sure you can understand, at least of the games will be negatively impacted with their attention/focus divided even more than it is today, and we still have problem after problem in all versions.
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Youâre absolutely right. I may or may not have participated in a few private servers and they all eventually suffer thee same population hype issue as blizzard. well except Nolstarius / Lights Hope. Most classic WoW players just follow the population hype, considering it is a MMORPG. This is just an instance of me hoping I get what I want and blizzard pleasing everyone at the same time. 
The people I feel bad for are the ones who pushed for forever Classic so they could get a forever TBC.
To be fair I have no clue where these people went, the names on these forums change all the time.
This also sets a president for forever Wrath if we go into Cata, meaning it wonât exist.
Itâs not that I donât understand why Blizzard didnât decide to do TBC forever servers but more that I feel for the people who wanted them.
If people arenât happy they will go to pservers or other games. For the most part, no one is locked into a Blizzard WoW sub. If a person wants to play TBC and not Wrath they arenât going to magically decide to play Wrath because they are handcuffed to this game or something. They will split themselves off.
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its possible these could be interwoven, by leveling to max on each expac, a classic van, classic tbc, classic wrath char. this then unlocks cross expac lfd for all your chars on your account. essentially, to take advantage of this feature, your account must have at least one max level char on all 3 expacs, then it unlocks for all your chars, which means you could join a dungeon in a classic vanilla instance, or a classic tbc instance or a classic wrath instance, based on the level of your queued char and your account having unlocked access.
this would be controlled locally, meaning the group leader starts it off, and decides whether it should be open to people from other expacs. all your gear would adapt to the expac ruleset of the group leader, perhaps a standardized gear set that replaces your current gear and then vanishes once you complete the run and return to your expac.
this would allow people in older expacs to fill dungeon groups, pulling from a wide range of sources, but still leaving the decision up to the group leader so they can maintain their vision of the game, while also providing the group access to a much larger player pool in the event it was needed/wanted.
lets say this feature doesnt even become available to the group leader till 30 minutes of waiting to fill the group and only allow 1 cross expac player to join *so at least 4 slots would have to already be filled for 30 minutes and all 4 members would have to already be in the instance.
as group leader, as soon as you form a group a timer starts. when the timer expires, you now can select a cross expac group member who has queued for this feature. the cross expac player would then be teleported to the instance.
the person with the unlocked access, wouldnt receive armor/weapons/mats from that expac, just xp commensurate with their current expac and perhaps a goody bag with an item commensurate with their current expac. as the person with unlocked access, you couldnt join such groups from RDF. youâd have to deliberately join the cross expac queue and select a specific eligible dungeon on that expac. so its a custom feature.
this would allow people to maintain chars on their fav expac, without the downside of not having enough people to fill the group. the amount of local group members needed to pop the cross expac feature, could be auto adjusted for low pop servers.
SOM vanilla to TBC to WotLk to WotLK forever progression cyclles with quicker leveling and drop rates with condensed time frames would be sick.
Then if you want you can go from forever WotLK to Dragonflight because when you died on Lich King you went to the Shadowlands and then were resurrected following the events of that.
Keeping all the achievements and mounts etc.
âLoreâ wise it would make sense, too. Well, as much sense as Shadowlands lore can make⌠You were one of the people thrown into the maw who couldnât escape. You were tortured, and you repressed all memories of your time spent in the Shadowlands.
Repressing Shadowlands is definitely accurate
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what sword?
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Ofc if blizzard donât provide TBC era server, ppl would go to private server for sure. Stupid blizzard
I love BC, and hope the would make at least one realm or 2
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yep they dropped the ball and spiked it in our face
give us money plebs
and we said âŚnah iâll play BC instead
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