Its painfully obvious of the elephant in the room.
How can they milk the most amount of profit off a 15 year old expansion?
Its quite simple. Offer boosted services for a fee, and at the same time offer cloning services with another fee.
But wait, there’s more!
Why do you think there is no blue posts from blizzard in any of the forum posts that mention anything about a F R E S H realm?
They know the longitivity of the game is tied to how much constant monthly subs they’ll be getting. It heavily outweighs the money theyll make from boosts or cloning services.
It is completely stupid of them if they dont make a fresh realm at beggining of launch. And im willing to bet money they will. It is activi$ion, they cant refuse a potential profit.
The trick is, by announcing it 2 weeks ahead of time, they run into the issue of people not paying into the boosts if they are aware they will start new anyways. So they gotta play it smart by not revealing their cards too soon.
Instead, theyll wait for the launch week and use the population as an excuse to say, “Due to the overwhelming high number of people on these servers, we are creating more realms to distribute the population.”
Because they KNOW people like me will buy into the boosts, but still jump ships to a fresh tbc server, because thats what we really want. And by doing so, they would make more potential profit longterm because it will keep us busy more. The problem blizz always had was they could never produce enough content for long enough to keep players busy to resub. But now they are presented with an easy solution, and you dont think they will take it?? They will.
They are also on a clock. Do it too early, people wont buy the boost. Do it too late, and it wont get the population needed to be worthwhile. Im predicting it will be done within the first or second week of launch. Come back to this post to prove me wrong.