What is the general feeling about Fresh TBC servers?

Stonecastle-herod · May 14, 2021, 5:16pm

Here we go

I’ll just copy-paste this on every one of these threads, I guess.

What incentive do they have to make a statement? It will just make people mad.

If they respond:

“We will not be creating fresh servers while there are a dozen of extremely low population realms currently. There is plenty of space for new and returning players to go to. If every realm becomes high population with high queues, we will absolutely release new realms to make room for new players. But that is not the current case.”

You would collectively lose your minds. It would be a wall of threads about how “space isn’t why we want fresh servers, it’s about economy and progression blah blah blah”.

They could also respond:

“In an attempt to better monetize the platform we are offering $40 character boosts for new players and returning players. Fresh realms would assuredly decrease this revenue stream and defeat the purpose of our new monetization strategy. We will not release fresh servers until we’re confident that the majority of the available character boosts have been consumed by new and returning players, first.”

That’s a completely valid answer, but again you guys would lose your minds about how it’s “greedy” or “mercenary” for a publicly traded, fortune-500 company to care about profits.

Literally the only official response you guys would accept is “Here are a bunch of fresh realms, locked to transfers and boosts. Enjoy!”

You won’t get that. You won’t get that because my previous two examples are the real answer. It’s better for Blizzard to remain silent than be honest with you. And I understand why they’re doing it.