Why are be being forced to choose what era to play in?

[Chucktaurus-fairbanks]

@Snucka-sulfuras

And it’s sad to see this level of entitlement

When did asking for what you want become “entitlement”? It’s a video game forum. It’s specifically here for these types of discussions. Get over yourself.

[Mobikon-atiesh]

@Joyson-sulfuras

to this thread

Yes, I posted a link to your video on this thread.

That is technically the truth.

[Chucktaurus-fairbanks]

@Kurogano-thunderfury

There are several very valid reasons.

And which one of those has a negative impact on those who are indifferent on the matter and only care about TBC?

[Joyson-sulfuras]

@Kaelrynn-area-52

Yea, I get that you cant play Chucktaurus at two places at once

not just at once. at all.

@Kaelrynn-area-52

making a new character

what you refuse to accept is that we know that blizzard is forcing this on us and its unnecessary

[Joyson-sulfuras]

@Mobikon-atiesh

Yes, I posted a link to your video

yeah no thanks dude

[Applejakx-thunderlord]

This is a silly argument. The main reason that Blizzard is choosing this route is consolidating the player base as much as possible. They are likely going to release fresh vanilla servers at some point and splitting the base between TBC, legacy Vanilla and fresh would result in some very dead servers. Couple points to prove this theory.

-Blizzard REALLY doesn’t like to merge servers or mess with moving people around. They avoided doing this for YEARS. They basically waited until server didn’t matter anymore before merging them. They won’t want to do this for classic
-Its a pretty obvious fact that most people are going to want the new thing (TBC) as opposed to the old thing (legacy vanilla). Especially when the old thing is never going to change.
-They sent out multiple surveys about this stuff. If there was truly a large majority of people that wanted to stay on legacy classic servers, they would probably be making a different decision. It stands to reason that because they are going this route, most people wanted to move to TBC.

In a perfect world, I would also choose to let everyone play the game how they want and have as many servers and versions of the game as possible to accommodate that, but that isn’t realistic. The fact is that Blizzard has (or at least is willing to put in) limited resources towards this and the player base is limited. Splitting it up 3 ways (and that isn’t even counting future TBC fresh or WOTLK / WOTLK fresh) would segregate the player base too much to be feasible so they are setting the precedent now.

[Joyson-sulfuras]

@Applejakx-thunderlord

consolidating the player base as much as possible.

by forcing each half of the community to roll new characters in order to play the other version of the game lmaooooooooooooo

[Kurogano-thunderfury]

@Joyson-sulfuras

you have to be more specific.

I was specific and your reply was “Blah Blah Blah those are lies”

@Joyson-sulfuras

rior to Burning Crusade Classic’s release, WoW Classic players can decide whether to advance each of their characters to the Burning Crusade era with the rest of their realm

This means your current realm that you play on will move into TBC. Notice the use of the words “With the rest of their realm”. If you were transferring your character off that realm you wouldn’t be “advancing” with your realm.

@Joyson-sulfuras

or to continue playing the original WoW Classic content on new Classic Era servers.

This means you transfer off your current realm for a Forever Classic realm. Notice no use of the words “with the rest of their realm”

It isn’t something hard to decipher.

@Kaelrynn-area-52

I do too and I agree with you. Big fat vanilla cake with mountain dew.

Don’t like sweet… can I instead have a very big burger?

[Joyson-sulfuras]

@Kurogano-thunderfury

I was specific

@Joyson-sulfuras

@Kurogano-thunderfury

The history of wow

you have to be more specific.

hahahahahahaha specific

[Mobikon-atiesh]

@Applejakx-thunderlord

Especially when the old thing is never going to change.

You might have had more people stay if they had changed things. That’s why you have a lot of folks where were begging for a Classic+

[Chucktaurus-fairbanks]

@Kaelrynn-area-52

Im sure Chucktaurus is an amazing druid with tons of loot and gold obtained in a non bannable manner.

Yes. He is amazing. Yes I have a lot of gold. No none of it was purchased with real money.

@Kaelrynn-area-52

My point was that you still get to play two character’s named Chucktaurus on both tbc and classic at the same time by making a new character on which ever one the maxed out one wasnt on and bingo bango, you get to play both.

Now you’re just being disingenuous.

[Applejakx-thunderlord]

Yes, that would mean all the people are on 2 servers instead of 3. Also I mentioned fresh vanilla servers which I believe are coming at some point. We will see but I really don’t think (opinion but based on logical assumptions that I pointed out in my post) there are that many people that are going to want to stick around in forever P6 vanilla.

[Kaelrynn-area-52]

@Kurogano-thunderfury

Don’t like sweet… can I instead have a very big burger?

I felt a great disturbance in Azeroth. As if thousands of Tauren cried out and were suddenly silenced.

[Mini-kromcrush]

@Chucktaurus-fairbanks

I should be able to keep this druid in vanilla land while also getting a copy of him to keep playing in TBC.

But why should you be able to?

ThAtS not HoW iT wAs

[Joyson-sulfuras]

@Applejakx-thunderlord

Yes, that would mean all the people are on 2 servers instead of 3

just copy the character data from current classic and paste it onto tbc classic

[Applejakx-thunderlord]

The issue that a lot of people had with classic plus was that many don’t trust Blizzard at this point to make new content that is truly in the spirit of vanilla. That is a whole different argument. Also Blizzard would have to devote a lot more resources if they went this route, which obviously they aren’t willing/able to.

[Joyson-sulfuras]

@Mini-kromcrush

But why should you be able to?

because character data is stored on an excel type express sheet and copy pasting it onto tbc servers would be a task befitting of a undergrad intern that busses coffee in their office

[Mini-kromcrush]

That’s not what I asked.

[Mobikon-atiesh]

@Joyson-sulfuras

yeah no thanks dude

No, no, I insist! Here’s your video, Mr. Wildhart

https://youtu.be/R9t9xhep-jE?t=15670

[Kurogano-thunderfury]

@Joyson-sulfuras

hahahahahahaha specific

@Kurogano-thunderfury

Learn from history or you are doomed to repeat it.

1, Dead Realms. Proven fact by people constantly moving forward over the course of wows history with the minority going to pservers to play a static expansion. This pattern repeating in Classic WoW and Forever Classic will result in dead Forever Classic realms.

2. This is simply a fact. If every person character is copied so that they have both a TBC Classic and Forever Classic version of themselves. The majority will not ever play on one of those two characters. resulting in names being taken by characters that never played on that realm.
3. The vast majority of the player base will move forward to TBC this is again a fact. Any given expansions fans are in a minority and the majority will always play the most recent version available to them. If we follow what you want. You will end up with ton of Forever Classic players on dead realms because of majority of their realm decided to go and play TBC. Resulting in them either having to transfer off the server or making a new character on the server that the rest of the forever classic community is playing.

Yep specific.