Why should I be the one to suffer because other people want to start from scratch? Why do you think that forcing everyone to start from scratch will have a different outcome than what happened with Classic, where the dedicated got rich and the casuals didn’t?
It’s going to be exactly the same, if not worse. Forcing everyone to start fresh means you lose some people, and the people who aren’t already overflowing in gold will have to start all over again too.
This would have the opposite effect of what you want.
Nah, I’d rather weed out the filthy TBC fan boys and never see them again and live with my much smaller, but closer knit, one server community who enjoyed the game that Classic is - Vanilla like or not.
I’m sure there will be. People need to get over the fact that perma classic players are the minority and not the majority. They’ll be the ones moving not the tbc players.
I don’t think any of the Classic players actually think they will be the majority. And like I said before to you, “moving” is strictly semantics - if it’s seamless to both sides. It really doesn’t matter.
The only people it does matter to is some inferiority complex about being the ones to “move”.
I’ve been wondering about this lately. What is the time on protecting an ip? Is it like music, 25 yrs? Probably shorter than that if they felt the need to protect it now. But whatever the time limit is, they’ve probably already accomplished the goal for another X number of years so who knows what they’ll do really? Just food for thought.
I don’t understand why this is such a hard concept to grasp. Your selfish desire to hold on to progression creates disadvantages for other players, who are also progressing for the same TBC outcome. The right thing to do, is to level the playing field and force everyone wanting to participate in the new TBC game version to start fresh.
This sort of thing happens in any MMO RPG. It even happens in real life. Its not something you can just fix, nor should you.
Actually I think it depends on how Blizzard implements TBC. If it’s like Classic, it will succeed. However, if they make it grindy and time consuming at patch, it will fail - like Classic would have if they did the re-tunes etc.
Although if they make it at patch, i might come back just to do the early pre-nerf heroics.
I think we might get 2.0. It just extends the life of the game. I think there will be some changes to it though.
Ie: starting with world buffs unusable at 70. The world second vashj kill had world buffs.
The leveling xp nerf could possibly be moved to the beginning or even prepatch. Prepatch would encourage players to return and level for tbc and players who didn’t play classic but want to play tbc.
Thunderfury threat nerf. Kungen had thunderfury in ssc.
Potential sated debuff for heroism/lust and drums. This one is unlikely but it would be interesting and I’m not entirely convinced they won’t do it.
Actually time gating content. When china got tbc they cleared through to bt in a month or so. I can’t remember the exact time frame but it was fast. The only thing stopping Progress from doing kt and vashj in the first month would be content gating.
Who knows though we could get a base 2.0 with very little change. We could get 2.4.3 and it’ll be over in 6 months.
Tbc will not be very successful if you force everyone to start over. Your mythical even playing field will only exist for 5 mins. Then those of us with tbc exp will race ahead and exploit the economy. Also, if I lose my gold then I’m buying it in fresh. I’m not gonna put in all that time and effort farming again if i lose it in tbc.
You will not be even. Fresh takes any advantage you might have away. Fresh will not go how you think. I will beat you to 70. I will make thousands of gold selling all the stuff i can farm before you can get there. Just because you don’t have as much time as I do to play doesn’t mean I should have to pay for that. It doesn’t mean fresh will even the field for you either.
I don’t think blizz will do it as it’s going to cause a massive amount fo drama and with a full reset will put people off playing since all their hard work and time spent will have gone to complete waste.
I’m personally split on what I want from the TBC release. I don’t want to lose the progress I have made gear or goldwise,Nor do i want to lose the prep towards TBC I’m slowly making going to complete waste.
I don’t however want to deal with a completely broken economy thanks to botters and people who have used RMT.
The only upside I’d see from a complete reset (and this is specific to my server) is a faction re-balance as the horde is outnumbered by a semi-significant margin.
Where did i ever claim that? Also, because a few mega servers have issues doesn’t mean the rest do either. I’ve played on a few lower pop servers now. The 2 mega servers had the problems. The 3 lower pop didn’t. I’ve been on Thalnos, Benediction, Mankrik, Ashkandi, and Bloodsail Buccaneers. I know its a mega server problem because I’ve checked. Not only that but I’ve tracked ah trends on other servers I considered playing on as well as population and faction balance.
I’d prefer fresh start. It’d be fun to level a new shaman goat with everyone else. What’s the hurry anyhow, it’s not like they delete servers after a couple years.
I doubt they’d do that though. Too many would cry about it and threaten to quit/not play. I’d guess that a good portion of those would still play just the same, addiction is powerful.
I don’t want to lose all the time and effort I’ve put in to my characters. If they do fresh then I may as well play pservers because that’s what they do and I’m not paying for something I can get for free.
It is a race when the server first open up. The sooner you hit level 70, the sooner you can prey on levelers entering outland who did not gain the level advantage. I shouldn’t have to explain this.
I’m just looking at the bigger picture. I’m not interested in holding people back, I’m interested in fairness.