I hope we get at least 6 months after Naxx before TBC launches. The people raiding together right now in Classic will never get another opportunity to do so, because when TBC launches most will be forced to move to TBC or they will get torn apart.
Also, I expect progression to slow down for the majority of guilds in AQ and Naxx. Half the guilds currently clearing MC will struggle in AQ and Naxx, many will never clear them. But I’d like to give those guilds time to work their way through it, because as I said, they will never get another opportunity. For most guilds, once TBC launches, it’s over. Sure, some individuals will be able to leave and join one of the few guilds that stay to keep playing Classic, but most current guilds will get washed away by the current.
raiding dies well before the launch, no point struggling and throwing gold away when you can get gear almost just as good a few hours casually into TBC
it is likely that they will move up the schedule a bit like they have been doing. Which is completely understandable considering people know every facet of the game now and clear through content much quicker.
For those who have already cleared Naxx, yes. But for those who haven’t yet, they will keep pushing to clear it before the xpac comes out, and rushing TBC out will pull the rug out from under them. And as I said, the majority of guilds are not going to clear Naxx the week it come out, IMO. Some will take months. Many never will. Progression will slow down with each tier.
I also think pretty much everyone who has cleared Naxx and quits because of no new content will come back for TBC. So Blizzard doesn’t need to be overly concerned about losing them long term. There is no need to rush TBC. I’d give it at least 6 months after Naxx release.
lol you think people are gonna be satisfied after clearing it once?? You do know people speed run right? You do know we have alts we wanna gear up too right?
They will allow character copies to the BC servers when they launch in 2021 from classic but they will still be two separate games. Likewise BC and Wrath. There is no other way to do it.
No they won’t. They are going to force you to BC. Play BC or don’t play. Why would they put in all that work for separate servers like that? You do play the same game we do right? You see what they are doing with this game right? I mean you are on the forums… I assume you at least read the blue posts and then see how they effect the game.
The content of TBC is still in game, but it has been rebalanced, many of the class abilities are long gone, some of the systems are no longer used or are no longer recognizable.
It’s not quite as daunting as classic was, but it still won’t be fast.
Also I cant imagine there is much value in further fracturing the playerbase into different content capped servers.
This argument that classic will die as soon as it runs out of new content will also exist for TBC.
When does it stop? Do we just have new expansion remakes all the way up to retail so that each person can choose to stop at whatever expansion they liked best? I cant imagine Blizz ever approaching that.
Wasn’t my experience in vanilla and TBC. When a new xpac was announced, it was like oh $hit, we better get our a$$ in gear, because we want to get as far as we can before we run out of time. It was a motivator.
I guess it depends on the guild. If it’s 100% about gear, then yeah, I can see shallow people like that quitting because the gear will be obsolete soon. But if your team is more about the glory of the guild, about making it’s mark and progressing as far as possible, with gear primarily serving as a means to that end, then having a time limit can motivate, not discourage.
How does one prep for a new xpac? When it comes out, you just head out and start leveling.
I don’t understand your question. Can you restate? Thanks.
People saw from the beta that the greens on the way up were nearly as good as/better than Naxx items, so we were never able to get 40 online to even try Naxx, as the attitude was “why bother?”
Same thing happened near the end of TBC, except this time it ended the guild entirely.
New content that invalidates the old stuff isn’t a motivator to try hard. I can’t even bring myself to play retail anymore because every few months new content comes out that makes your old effort worthless.
You can just come back in a year and catch up to current content in a flash, making all of the past efforts worthless. Wow content releases don’t seem to actually expand the amount of things worth doing, just shift them from one thing to another.
People still play Pong, the first game I played in the 70’s. The question is how many? How many still play Everquest and how does that compare to the numbers who played it at it’s peak. Yes, some people played “original” wow over and over again on p-servers. But that number was a fraction of those who played retail wow and a fraction of those playing classic.