You like TBC? Here is a dedicated server. You like Cata? Heres a server. I don’t know anything about the technical side of this or if my thoughts here are “too much to ask” but it seemed like an interesting thought to me. What do you people think?
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TBC like a year ago suffered from the same problems Classic ERA suffered 2 years ago. There were dedicated people who enjoyed it but most were tired of the current iteration and wanted to move on and see what was in the next expansion. After spending some time in the next expansion, some people missed the old one and wanted to go back.
I think you see a greater longing now for TBC because of how different WOTLK was in expectations vs reality. It took until mid-Ulduar for people to drop out and go back to Classic Era and talk about TBC servers in the comment sections of youtube and here.
Back to the topic at hand though, dedicated servers for each expansion? It can be difficult to justify them since initially they will have really small populations as most people will just do progression to the next expansion than stay on a specific era before they become popular again. What people really want are progression servers that start in CE and move on through to WOTLK if not continuing much like Classic as a whole. There is then a feeling of progression instead of sitting in the end state.
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None of the expansions are Classic WoW. Flying mounts, horde pally/ally shaman, eSports, ‘Hero’ classes, WoW token, etc. They’re retail progression servers.
No thanks! I’ll take a Classic Era Phase 7, though.
My guess is the thought that having too many different eras would dilute the playerbase too much, and then no one would have anyone to play with
Still, I feel like they could get away with just having one or two servers for each era
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Why cant Blizzard release servers for each expansion of the game separately?
Because part of their business strategy is to corral/herd the lower, casual playerbase like cattle for their preferred primary target audience’s/demographics whims.
If they put out a server of every type, then that would split the playerbase every which way, and the pet target audience would have a diminished population to condend with… Can’t have that.
They also want to spend as little as possible on development, even if that slight investment could improve the quality of the game for everyone; you have to spend money to make money.
This is why the transition from classic to BC was so stupid in our eyes; I mean, if you missed out on the clones, everything you did in classic is gone, as is the case for me. But in their eyes, it made perfect sense, and they simply wash their hands from the problems they create such as having to end up consolidating servers, and lying about it, and simply forgetting about it.
Basically.
I’m here hoping for an eventually Legion Era, because Legion had TOO much to do and not enough time to do it.
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This is what I originally told them do, simply offering transfers UP in patches when PLAYERS (not Blizzard) wanted to move on. But Blizzard didn’t do any of that. They instead decided in their complete cluelessness to do a 1 time data clone to move to crusade then forcibly patch crusade to wrath, deleting that expansion entirely. As usual players protested everything, massive backlash, and as usual, Blizzard ignored it all.
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If some random nobody in Russia can have a WoW launcher similar to Battlenet with 6 servers to choose from for Classic, TBC, WOTLK, Cata, MOP and Legion and each servers has minimum few hundreds of players on them daily and this guy run all of this on a crappy PC setup with crappy servers, Blizzard has absolutely no excuse to not do the same.
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not really. there could be 1 server that’s full easily
the issue is the cost to manage all of the variations, and even that isn’t much. see the joke that is the hc servers.
Unpopular opinion but I’ve always said that they need to fix Chromie time.
Wanting a Phase 7 to Classic Era from the same company who you claim ruined the game over time with new additions is pretty ironic.
Which game? Classic or retail WoW? I’ve only ever played the former and Era is doing alright. I’m interested to see what novel ideas they have for it.
no one has time for everything, you would have dead servers if you had multiple eras out at once, Look how garbage som was when they released it during TBC.
everyone was on TBC while Som was dead…It’s the same reason Private servers don’t release at the same time other Pservers release cuz it destroys populations.
I love this idea and it helps generate income for Blizzard. I’d even be okay with cloning characters up, this way the player can also stay in the earlier period. Or allow for backwards transfers too, with an obvious hit to level and gear (perhaps with some sort of compensation?). Keep it simple.
It had its problem. The consume meta meant that on big servers some herbs were much in demand while at the same time smaller servers became wastelands with small guild islands keeping the best loot for themselves.
But without the bots and with smaller servers I thought it would be like after tbc launced on vanilla. Few but increasing players, as time would go on people would grow nostalgic and nerfed raids.
I would go again war kabeb and enhance if they did tbc era som3.
Been saying this for years. All expansions have their place. I love Cata and MoP the most, but i also enjoy Wotlk and TBC. I like to jump around depending on my mood, like how you can on pservers.
This is my ultimate dream for Classic.
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Face reality. There’s only one reason blizzard didn’t have BC era servers and probably won’t have Wrath era servers. They don’t think they’re needed to maintain subs nor will they increase subs sufficiently to be profitable.
You stopped playing Classic 19 levels ago.
Cost, viability, and development time.
they might be able to in the future, but i don’t think classic has the player base to split between multiple expansions
in the meantime if you played on the beta for an of the classics you probably noticed that at the start of each beta the game was in a state known as “bugged AF” that took months to resolve. they could maybe run a tbc server now along side classic era and wotlk, but further expansions would mean a months long wait time per expansion. the thing is you lose alot of the player base for an expansion when you get to the point that all the content has been released and farmed for months that players have nothing to do anymore.