The predictability of Blizzard

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.

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well yeah, they know how many bots will buy boosts too, literally no fear of getting banned now since you can start at 58 and need to buy more gametime

Every bot they ban is $30. They love bots

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I believe this is true. How did you get a hold of Bobby Kotick’s playbook?

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They could have made fresh TBC servers from the start… which would have been the most fair. No carry-over from Vanilla Classic. But then they couldn’t offer boosts…

It’s sad that the decision to not have fresh TBC servers is purely greed based. The worst part is they consider it worth destroying TBC economy for it. They don’t give a damn about a good experience for the players.

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Sadly it’s all about maximizing shareholder profit

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Read the annual report?

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Because painfully obvious that most of the players don’t care or don’t want “fresh” servers.

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Better report them to the IRS so they can revoke their non-profit charity status

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If you’re such a prophet then why buy the boost? You doubt yourself so much that you believe there’s a large enough chance that they’ll NOT do fresh and you HAVE to use the boost before it goes away?

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Because, quite obviously, people want to play it. More to the point, it’s a better game than the crap they put out in retail.

Except you don’t buy the boost. You get one automatically.

What are you complaining about?

What?
You realize you don’t get a free boost right?
Maybe I am misunderstanding the point?

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You are wrong.

Lol this guy thinks the boosts are free.

Look at him. Look at him and laugh.

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What are you talking about then? Because the level 58 boost is not free.
It is $40 or comes with the $70 pack.

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Boosts? You mean the dark portal pass!

Doh, you’re right. I don’t know what I was thinking.

Haha no worry. There’s a lot going on especially the whole monetization stuff and whatnot, easy to confuse one thing for another or get lost in the info.
I honestly thought you might’ve been talking about carrying over your characters from vanilla.

If I was this mad about a video game I would just stop playing it

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I am not sure about all of this.

I remember TBC release, they offered new realms some time later and everyone jumped those. But a year later, they became very empty.
Blizzard just cant open realms all the time, they need to find a way to keep communities together, else they must merge or connect realms all the time and this is not without a downside too as we can see with the classic era now.

I still support one fresh realm for pve, pvp and RP but they have to disable transfers and boosts.

Ofc best would have been, if TBC would be a completely new game with new servers, but ofc. this not every player would have liked and it would also be a financial loss I guess without transfers, boosts and clones.