Can someone help me understand the benefit of separate BC servers with no option to transfer your character from classic?
I get that it resets the economy but isn’t that a change that invalidates how BC was played in 07?
I’m legit not understanding the argument for this.
While I have not been keeping up with the latest news, but I don’t think anything specific has been officially announced. So any news you might hear is only rumor.
If your concern is the economy then it really doesn’t matter. Things will sell what they sell for. It doesn’t really matter how much gold there is so long as there is gold being generated
Classic WoW is meant to be a museum. This is not retail WoW where an expansion happens and your character advances on into the new story. Classic BC will be a NEW museum where it will our jobs to fill it with NEW works of art. There is no cost/benefit analysis to be done here.
now coming up with 5k gold for flight might be a big problem with a fresh economy. It will probably be a long time before anyone gets that
Not really.
People had hundreds of gold the first week sitting in Razor Hill/Brill/Goldshire etc. and selling bags.
For the topic at hand though, I just feel like it would be a better overall experience to start fresh in TBC.
It seems these TBC debate threads are popping up every day. I am sure they will try to please everybody to retain subscriptions.
Folks let’s just wait and see.
you can keep playing classic.
Really there is no advantage outside of a Vanilla zone rush and the so called “fresh economy”
Could be wise to include a gold cap per account, but a lot of people would QQ.
Reason being are the RMT companies have kinda made a mess, and blizzard hasn’t killed them off fast enough. So now the economy is sorta messy
People like what they like. The people who want to start fresh can all go on the fresh servers and have their fresh fun.
The people who want to progress onwards from where we are now can all go on the progressive servers and have their progressive fun.
No one should be bothered by the server type they are not going to play on. I’ve never understood why there needs to be debates on this. It’s just arguing for the sake of arguing.
Blizzconline I feel certain we will hear an announcement
I get that. I’m fine with separate vanilla servers. I have issue that I’ll
Have hundreds of hours put into my room that would now be meaningless if I want to play BC.
The only argument for this that I have seen is it resets the economy.
To me, this is a weak argument. The economy pre-wow token was fine
A big problem any “classic” release of a wow expansion from here on out is going to face is the “prepping” of players.
In wow classics release, everyone started fresh, no gold, no banks of 10,000s of mats horded. Back in 06, people still didn’t fully know what wow had to offer in the future. The internet wasn’t the cesspool wealth of knowledge it is now. We didnt have the means to make 600 gold per hour. There were rumors of an expansion. But people didn’t know what was in the expansion, or how it would be implemented. They didnt know they would need X amount of gold for an epic mount, or that they would need to compete heavily for Primals in a small world.
I see it already on my realm. People paying 5k for a weapon drop in a GDKP Naxx. TBC economies with be a literal nightmare for the average player. You will see players on epic mounts a week into TBC, giving them a pretty massive advantage in PVP, Farming and just QoL.
I am in favor if a character XFER to a TBC server with only retaining soulbound items. It makes it completely fair for everyone.
The issue is that a lot of people have a significant amount of gold and resources right now and ready to go for a TBC launch, and given we have significant knowledge and experience about TBC, they’ll also be able to prep and get everything ready - and the same once TBC launches, while having a significant stranglehold on the market for less prepped and hardcore players.
But that doesn’t even really matter. What the people suggesting fresh fail to realize is that these players don’t really need the capital and prep time. It’ll only save the servers for a month or two tops, and everything will be exactly the same going forward. It will reduce the raw gold circulating the market by a lot but it’s only a measure to buy time.
It’s not worth losing all the effort players have put into their characters in Classic, especially the many non-hardcore players.
Not really, It at least gives people a fighting chance. Epic flying mounts gave a HUGE advantage over gound or 60% flying mount. Anyone that can buy one once they hit 70 will have a clear advantage in farming. And the “wealth” gap in wow will just widen even further.
The “effort” of your character shouldn’t be measured in how much gold you have. No ones character is being devalued.
It’ll give people a, “fighting chance” for a month or so. People who are serious about this will hit 70 from 1 within the first few weeks, if not a month, and then they’ll immediately turn to farming.
Those who aren’t hardcore won’t even be 70 by the time these people are already rolling in gold again.
We don’t actually know that. We don’t really know anything. I’m going to wait and see what they announce before I think about what I want to do
what do you mean?
The reason people don’t want their toons to advance past level 60 is so they can keep playing Classic.
You don’t think they’ll close Classic for no reason AND start new BC servers do you?
Museum piece: an object that is worthy of display in a museum
Museum: a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited.
None of these fits the description of a PLAYABLE game.
People need to stop using these terms to refer to classic or any later re-release. It is a re-release. Aspects of the game have already been changed. Any notion of it being a ‘museum piece’ has long been debunked.
The only people who want fresh tbc are those who have nothing to lose.No naxx gear, no legendaries, no bug mounts, no high ranked pvp titles, no progress or alts. They just want to drag everyone else down to their level of mediocrity under the guise of “muh economy”. Bots will generate so much gold so quickly that this excuse is weak.
I think they might force existing classic servers into TBC. I’m not saying I want that, but I think they might do that…