Why doesn’t blizzard implement a system to allow Vanilla/BC/WoTLK to run concurrently on the same realm?
They’re geographically separated, and any crossover can be done with simple phasing that could be done at an NPC or something. If one wants to speedrun old content for cosmetics or something.
It seems like it’d be a simple matter to have 3 versions of a character that changes depending on the zone they’re in. Simply reverting back to 70/BC gear, 60/Vanilla gear when in their original zones. IE gear the player obtained, just have players store a version of their character for each expansion upon hitting max level. Where after that it’s automatically updated when they change gear in that old expansion.
It would keep all 3 forms of the game alive, and I don’t think there’s any major economy problems at play? Since old world mats still come from the old world. If blizzard wants to hire me to direct I can just work for minimum wage to make this happen. ez.
Simply move any future items that shouldn’t be in that expansion to external void storage, or just keep the inventories snapshotted/separate if that would be an issue.
They could probably do it. People have made engines that work that way, but i think their biggest argument against it would be “It’s not in the spirit of Classic.”
WoW has lots of spirits. Someone gave me wine in Stormwind. I collected 4 for a quest in Redridge. Another guy in Hellfore asked for some Netherguard Bitters. Let’s not forget about that level 30’ish quest that ends up killing the dude in Stormwind Keep!
It would just be linking up 3 versions of the game with 3 different characters, I mean everything is pretty much just like copy/pasting and pointing to some spread sheets, so it should be fine.
Naw like. Old World would “transport” you back to vanilla automatically by default, so say if you que for a battleground there, it’s in the vanilla level 60 bracket, with the last gear you got in vanilla.
Outland would put you in the 70 bracket with everything you had there
Northrend would put you in the 80 bracket, only works up to WoTLK logistically speaking.
I like this general idea a lot. I think if they could combine this with a quality of life solution to server imbalances, in addition to making sure content from the patches throughout the expansions is not completely irrelevant, this could be a great creative solution for replay value of the expansions.
I think we at this point need to realize that the true Spirit of classic is dead… Honestly the people that truly cared about classic realms in the first place before they ever got announced have abandoned the game and gone back to those other servers that are out there that provide a vanilla experience
Ok maybe not all, but it’s definitely not like it was at the start of classic realms.
