Some people have comprehension issues and genuinely think the $35 fee is per character playable in BC, or per character playable in Classic Era.
Some people dimly recognize that it’s not logical to treat “clone all my characters” as an expected default, but still wish to complain about the expense of doing so, so they handwave that it’s functionally identical to a fee to play at all.
And everyone in either of those groups is an infection vector for membership in the first group, because people tend to believe what other people tell them by default.
Lol not even close dude, you realize GW2 previous content is irrelevant once you get to cap besides doing World Events. Also GW doesn’t allow it like just like GW2, once you get to cap previous expansions and content aren’t ideal unless you are the lvl for said content.
Most content for GW2 expansions is also (personal) story related with rewards thrown in and new content like new area, mounts (path of fire), new specs with barely any gear to work towards. Do you want to list all of the content from classic and TBC and compare them to all 3 expansions to GW2?
1)Blizz was asked about classic servers and gave the infamous you think you do but you dont response.
Hundreds of thousands of people petitioned for it and still didnt get it even after blizz met with the PServer team.
Nostalrius sold their classic code to another Pserver (forgot the name) blizz got mad saw how much money and players they were losing and then created classic. (this is now the second time we have classic/vanilla so we already leveled our characters twice through the longest leveling content theyve ever put out.
Blizz releases classic, huge success.
Content they released was nerfed and cleared in a day, gaming culture has changed, wow classic as so many people state is about community not difficulty of raids.
Now for a third time if you want to go back to classic you have to relevel the same exact character or conveniently for an overpriced fee, they just so happen to already have a clone of your character you can pay to access.
If they lied and said they werent precloning characters it would justify the overpriced BS a little more.
EDIT: And beyond that… who the hell knows what classic servers are going to look like when people migrate to TBC. you could pay $35 to sit in IF alone and never see another player again…
Game going on 20 years and you are white knighting it to the point where I am pretty sure you would throw any amount at blizz for your purple pixels not to go away.
I was actually having a constructive conversation in this and many other threads that talk about this and similar topics but people are just like ehh what 35 bucks here 79 there a “dark portal pass” were playing COD now not WoW. Keep paying for services and watch as they continuously add more to a game people will have all content cleared in in a day.
I don’t get you people. The game and all its content has been out for years literally and you will continue to let them resell you a “service” they already have provided to you.
I have no interest in the deluxe edition or the clone, and the boost I won’t even be using except maybe on my Druid for convenience, because I plan to play a Draenei Warrior
So, besides that maybe boost, I’m going into TBC Classic without spending a dime past my $15 sub. What exactly is Blizzard “reselling” me?
Every Vanilla character has to be stored and there has to be server for them to play on. While an individual character might be pretty cheap to store, a million of them is not.
Blizzard is trying to minimize the number of clones as a cost saving measure. The money covers the indefinite and perpetual obligation to store that character’s data and provide it a place to play on demand. In light of that I think it’s a bargain. I mean, I won’t be taking them up on it.
Well, to be completely fair, I never experienced the original TBC so nothing would be resold to me regardless
Now, Wrath Classic on the other hand, would be a resell and I’ll be “buying” that for sure…and then hopefully it goes all the way to Pandaria Classic and then I’ll just be throwing my money at Blizzard
I already thanked them for adding the ability to clone at all. I’m not going to dig through my post history but it’s there. That doesn’t mean I don’t think the $35 is a bit much or that people shouldn’t be allowed to express their opinions to companies about pricing.
Costs effectively ZERO, they are doing this any way and character data takes effectively no space.
Blizzard owns, operates and runs its own servers. Their monthly bill is ISP, maintenance, and electric power / insurance.
False, clones cost nothing they are already cloned.
Additional servers contrary to your belief cost effectively nothing, the data base is a shared thing, and all servers have access to the same database. Each “Layer” on a layered server in its own right with a shared name, AH and chat channels, and duplicate character sheets, this is why swapping server (layers) is cake, you go from one to another buffs, stat changes (gear / talents) are applied and updated.
Character information is miniscule its only a series of tags to the database for a very basic way to phrase it that anyone can understand. Those tags simply carry your characters name, (character ID number) and the various allocations you have selected from the database that are in turn rendered on your client (local PC install)
