We deserve to know if TBC is going to gatekeep gold and materials from entering Outland. It’s phase 6 and with no legitimate announcements of where classic wow will go players have found it safe to assume the game will progress to BC. So what’s a person to do in phase 6 when all content will be delegitimized inevitably by the wake of whatever comes next. Is farming gold, professions, or materials still an acceptable practice as part of pre-patch planning? Perhaps not so anymore, with the recent rumors surrounding tbc, and the current state of botting. Players now speculate Blizzard will cap incoming character’s gold and resources upon entering the Burning Crusade, as gold farming has gotten so bad that they will have to shake even legitimate players down upon entering. Now this would delegitimize the largest form of content the game has when between xpacs. Content players sink their time and money into. I don’t know what Blizzard should do in their current situation when it comes to botting. But I would argue it’s malpractice to leave players uninformed farming pre-patch for months all the while they pay their sub only to be stiffed at the door of all their hard work. The least you could do is tell us and save us mass amounts of time and energy. It’s not even about the money. We deserve to know.
TLDR: NOW PHASE 6. PREPATCH FARMING GOOD. BLIZZARD SAY NOTHING. I FARM I FARM I FARM. BLIZZARD SAY NOTHING. I PAY I PAY I PAY. BLIZZARD SAY NOTHING. TBC LAUNCH. BLIZZARD SAY GOODBYE FARM THX FOR MONEY. I SAD I SAD I SAD
… I don’t think Blizzard has said anything about TBC beyond sending out some surveys. Player speculation is just that; speculation. What comes comes. We already have people thinking TBC is coming in six months when there has been no announcement of it coming at all. I think will, indeed, come, but seeing as they’ve told us nothing solid it’s best to just relax one all these specifics.
If your only reason for playing the game is to get ready for TBC, it might be best to unsubscribe until they announce it. If there are still things you want to do in classic though, do them now
Well it’s funny, I don’t want to be behind when TBC comes out. Which I believe is a fine goal have. Typically. But now players have to worry about being to far ahead? That my player progression is deleted with no prior notice? Players deserve to know that whatever is retaining their subscription is not just gonna be delete thereafter.
OP, Blizzard has stated multiple times that Classic is its OWN entity, a museum piece in time. It is unwise to assume they’ll be connected to TBC at all, just like they aren’t connected in any way, shape or form to retail. We can’t even use our titles from retail.
It’s true that we simply don’t know, but to provide a better experience, I’d bet dollars to donuts, especially since Classic is its own entity, that we’ll get the option to COPY a character over a progressive server, with gold over a certain amount, maybe 50g, and any type of crafting mats and remaining gold remaining on your classic server.
This ensures all of that hard farming you’ve done isn’t wasted, it’s still yours, on your Classic realm, where you earned it, and a TBC realm not being ruined right away. You get to keep your gear and copy over.
So far as I know Blizzard only said the museum thing as a joke, as a way to see what their intentions with Classic at the time were. Given its success we have no idea - as you said - what Blizzard’s plans are with TBC other than that it’s coming, but it’s unlikely Blizzard will force players to start fresh.
I think it be wise not for blizzard to put their hand in my pockets twice, farming gold is one of the primary forms of content in vanilla. Once gold can be taken theirs no going back. How many players that look to farming gold as a source of primary content are not coming back after seeing that gold is a liability?
But thanks for telling what Blizzard can or can’t do. Like they clearly can’t support the devs to funnel and weed out gold sellers and bots such as the game deserves. But they can solve the problem by stiffing me months of sub fees with nothing to show for it. If that is their methodology it be amazing to see if the “CAN” keep anyone but the bots subscribed.
You won’t lose your gold. It’ll most likely stay on your classic server, where you can continue to use it, and play classic whenever you want to. This is still all conjecture though.
And then you’re screwed because you spent the months leading up to TBC not preparing or farming for it.
Bad call.
Better to just farm, and if TBC doesn’t happen, at least you have wealth for Classic. If TBC does happen, but is capped on gold, you can invest into resources or spread it across multiple characters.
Correct. I plan to sub for one more month to achieve the PvP rank of Marshal. After that I plan to unsub until the announcement, because I am not a sucker for corporate shlums to disrespect. I will decide whether to resub on whether they show the player base respect, and whether they show competence in the planned rollout.