As shown in the graphic(s) above, Blizzard should leave all Classic realms forever, but also copy them forward to TBC’s pre-patch using the same realm names.
We already run Classic from a drop-down menu on the Battle.net launcher, and seeing your familiar realm name and community when you first startup TBC doesn’t seem strange to me at all. This structure would gradually evolve Classic’s realms into cross-expansion communities, complete with retro runs and 0-80 leveling races.
The graphic also shows refresh realms, which I think should happen before the TBC beta comes out. For many of the former private vanilla server players, the fresh realm-wide race was the actual appeal. If Blizzard doesn’t address this desire soon, they could end up recreating the private vanilla servers thru inaction.
They gave classic unique realm names to avoid confusion with retail realms. I highly doubt they’ll use the same realm names. Also why keep so many classic servers when they’ll be ghost towns?
You’re spoiling the fun of seeing so many complaints after the announcement of how it’s going to be done!
In all seriousness this is what many of the Classic folks that don’t want The Burning Crusade don’t understand. If existing servers stay as is with new servers moving to The Burning Crusade the balance of population will be far off.
This is why it’s best to have existing servers expanded to the Burning Crusade and copy all characters on WoW accounts to the new servers that don’t have expansions. And if population is expected to be high for both environments then create some fresh servers.
As if there won’t be like 20 complaints anyway as if they’re the majority. Hopefully they’ll be drowned out by all of us talking about tbc. 10 of them will be the same person.
Transition+ would continue and reaffirm that separation from retail realms.
It would be the least disruptive choice, as long as it is technically possible. Every player faction involved in this debate would get exactly what they wanted.
On low population realms, those players and communities have already made their choice. Not everyone wants a packed realm with intermittent layering and login queues. Transition+ would actually respect their choice and leave them to bounce around expansions as they see fit.
As a side note, I agree with Kevin Jordan that severe faction imbalance on some Classic realms (if Blizzard ever attempts to correct it) can only be done with faction login queues. Transition+ would actually facilitate doing this either before or after the TBC/Wrath releases, as players would be able to consider unified transfers of their character(s) from one realm name to another across Classic, TBC and Wrath.
Adding more and more realm names with each expansion just turns the solving of any population/balance problems into chaos for players.
They could have done the same realm names for classic and didn’t. They won’t do it for TBC. They’re gonna progress us into TBC. I don’t know why anyone thinks blizzard would do any different. There will be a few perma classic realms… whether those are fresh or not I don’t care. I’ll be in TBC with my 60s and everything i’ve earned throughout classic.
The easy and smart way to do it is progress every realm and offer transfers downward to consolidate the populations of players that prefer the prior version of the game. It is the logical way to do it to ensure servers are filled with people who want to play that VERSION of the game. Classic is made of predominantly three types of players Vanilla, TBC, and wrath. This way ensures everyone is sorted out and gets there own eternal server.
I really don’t want my server pop to get any larger. Bloodsail could use more horde to be sure and I think we will see more in TBC but its pop is exactly where it should be imo. Very vanilla like.
Classic, as an ongoing separate game, ends with TBC. There will be no classic only servers or fresh classic only servers. There will be no fresh TBC servers. All current servers wil become TBC with force.
Cry now or quit now, whatever you want to do, but you’re welcome for the advance notice.
i mean its possible, that way they can just do a complete circle and start with classic classic at the end of wrath(LOL) but i dunno, where you get the crystal ball from?@flow
And when do the floggings begin for current alliance players who protest? Will we need to forbid them from making new characters and put false charges against their credit accounts to lock them, so they cannot purchase a new account to start fresh?
Blizzard is not stupid to lose the Vanilla subs. They will keep some classic servers that have options to transfer down to for those who do not want to play TBC and in future will be the same for TBC/ Wrath. IF not done this way u end up with only Classic Cata Fail in the future.
This is the one scenario that will never happen. Classic itself came directly from the player base outrage over shutting down the best of the vanilla private servers…Nostalrius. Blizzard knows that vanilla private servers would come back if Classic vanilla disappears completely.
