In the beginning of WOTLK Blizzard announced they won’t be adding TBC era servers. This concerned many WOTLK fans. We pleaded with Blizzard to add WOTLK era servers. “No! this will further divide the playerbase!” said the contrarians as they went again in Hardcore. As WOTLK approaches it’s end we continue to plead with Blizzard for Era servers. “We have too many iterations of Classic!” shouted the contrarians as they play SoD.
WOTLK is arguably the best version of WoW and there are many voices demanding Era servers. Let us compare the three most popular versions of WoW: SoD, Vanilla and WOTLK
In SoD, every phase we have to reach level cap, train our professions to the next tier and acquire new runes and occasionally swap them. That sounds fun and all, but it’s time consuming.
Vanilla had it pretty good, but it wasn’t perfect unlike WOTLK. In vanilla we spent five minutes grabbing DMF buffs, another five grabbing songflower and Jujus, and finally we spent another ten minutes acquiring ZG and ONY buff. That’s an unnecessary twenty minutes spent outside of raid time every week.
And finally, the best iteration of WoW ever developed by Blizzard:
It’s Tuesday 5:59 PM. I log on my character that’s already parked outside of ICC. My buffs persist from raiding last week. I mount my Traveller’s Tundra Mammoth and repair my equipment and restock my reagents. I deploy my portable mailbox and collect my consumables. The clock strikes six. It’s raid time with the boys.
After my guild clears ICC I park my character outside ICC and log out until next week. I can repair and restock inside and outside ICC. I even upgrade my tier inside ICC. I never have to travel to a city. In fact, I haven’t left Icecrown since the Ulduar phase.
WOTLK is the superior version because it’s the only version in the history of WoW which requires less than a minute of playtime per week outside of raid logging. There’s no other iteration of WoW which allows us to raid log the way WOTLK allows us to because there’s literally nothing to do in this expansion and I can raid log and play other games. This is why WOTLK is superior and deserves ERA servers.
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That really sounds fun. I could do that every week without a single change for at least 5 if not 10 years
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Blizzard: We’re listening to player feedback by doing the exact opposite of what it says. This means delete crusade/wrath and force everyone over to cataclysm. We also don’t want to fragment the community between different versions of the game, even though we’re doing exactly that with season of mastery, hardcore, and season of discovery. Don’t like this? That’s too bad. We have a monopoly. Choke on it.
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Just because they didn’t listen to your feedback, doesn’t mean they are not listening. They are. Just not to you.
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If I were blizzard looking at the forums the feedback I’d take from it is those who want wrath era are small in number. Not nearly enough to justify making a server for such a small population. Most of the threads are less than a hundred replies long.
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People will have to stop playing and hope there is enough subs lost for Blizz to notice
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no one will play era servers, waste of time.
people that only play wotlk don’t even play classic wow, they play warmane.
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kudos for writing a post that is so difficult to say if it’s sarcastic or not , i hope it was not chatGPT AI
Don’t buy cata and unsub when they force people over.
I haven’t purchased it, I am doing some sod. Once wotlk goes, I am done tho.
People keep saying “oh the number of people who would play wrath era is so small, the same people keep making threads on sock puppet characters.”
While this might be true in some cases, I get the feeling there are actually an awful lot of people who want wrath era. I think it is willful denial on the part of those who oppose wrath era. On that note, for some reason people who do not intend to play wrath era are against its creation. Why? How does it affect you? Fragmentation? The people opposed to cataclysm are not going to play it just because wrath era is not an option–they are going to unsub altogether. The wrath era player is not like you. We know what we want, and since 2019 we have walked with the crowd, but we do not follow it. We play the game the way we want, not as Blizzard guides us.
If people who want wrath era are so foolish, why not give us our containment zone? Do you really want us playing with you in cataclysm?
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I hope you haven’t purchased any version of classic wow. I don’t know who you gave money too, but the classic expacs have been included with the sub.
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shhhh I’m running a racket here.
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At this point I am just waiting for about a year and a half to see the “Where is the Cata era?” threads.
It is going to be funny watching people think they get Cata era when TBC and Wrath didn’t. Especially if they are telling said people now, they should quit for wanting era.
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There’s this small fringe group who think they want to stop at some point and continue to pay a sub to do the expansion forever. They think they are numerous but they’re not. Blizzard gave them a vanilla era server and it was dead. If blizzard gave you a wrath era server it’d be dead. Almost no one wants to pay to play the same content for more than a couple of year. The couple of years of wrath are almost up and it’s getting close to the time most want to move onto new content.
There’s another much larger group that want to progress through the expansions. When they reach the expansion they don’t like they’ll quit and go play some other game. They not interested in sitting in any expansion forever.
There will be no players asking for a Cata or MoP or WoD era ect. We’re the one’s who didn’t want a vanilla era. And we didn’t want a TBC era. And we don’t want a wrath era. We just want to progress through the expansion until we quit. And we’re by far the largest group of players
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Then you better make sure you play those expansions to the bone as you are never getting them back after they have run their classic course.
Besides I don’t know how much stock I can take from someone who acts like the people who want wrath era just don’t exist. You shouldn’t of responded to me if you feel that way. “I want wrath era and I am one of the people who doesn’t matter. I am proud of it!”
I feel like I should add this to the list of why I am not a true classic community member. Along with me playing stuff like FF14, being a clicker, liking solo content and leveling oh I could go on. I swear me being me just. . . seems to be in direct opposition to the true will of the classic community.
And yes I am tad salty right now because I am just sick of people making fun of others for wanting CLASSIC GAMES PRESERVED. Not just in blizzard but in general. Come on it seriously isn’t a bad thing. Stop treating it like one!
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This is false. I play on Classic Era, Whitemane specifically.
There are raids going on all day, every day.
The first week of SoD you could definitely tell players were mia, but literally the next week things went back to normal.
The argument that Classic Era servers are/were dead is simply not true.
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That’s fine with the vast majority of players of every game. You know, back in vanilla classic I bought your argument. People told me there’s a huge number of players that will sit in Van classic forever, and pay a monthly sub to do it. I asked what are you gonna do, just run Molten Core over and over and over again year after year after year? I was told they were and they would do it on multiple alts. I was told that’s what players did on private servers.
I was astonished. I could not see how they wouldn’t get bored and drift away to other games. But I had no experience with private servers so I just though different strokes for different people. I accepted their arguments and supported them getting their Van era servers. But Van era was dead. It was a waste of resources. By far the vast majority were done with the game and were ready to move on.
The whole history of the gaming industry, whether on line or single player in your home, is you play the game until you’ve done all you want and you move on, to the next expansion or to a different game. Almost no one will play the same game for at most a couple of years. Sure people will go back to an old game after 5 or 6 years to replay it, but almost no one will just keep playing the same game for 5 or 6 years. If you get a wrath era it will be so low pop that it won’t be worth the cost for blizzard to maintain it.
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I don’t agree with it because I believe in video game preservation. Games are like other creative media. My books that I have I can keep around to show my future kids (that I do hope that I have.) Same with music and art.
But games? Outside of my older counsels if I keep them running, I don’t expect the games that I have now to be around for future generations and it’s sad. I actually went and bought a physical copy of Nier: Automata because I was afraid of losing it.
Games shouldn’t be lost to history, they aren’t just fun to play but becoming a great artform. And if like 40 or 60 years from now people have no idea what World of Warcraft even is because it was lost all together then that would be a shame.
I don’t just want era because I want to play it in my off time I want it because I think the era servers should be preserved.
I know for a fact I would be pretty irritated if someone told me I only have ten years for my short stories to be out in the world before they are removed for eternity because it’s good for business. I worked hard on my work just for it to be erased as it’s not profitable for stuff to last? Come on. Why even create things if it will be taken away.
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Whitemane and Firemaw in the EU have the population of a low pop server. All the other servers have about 40 to 200 players. Blizzard is maintaining a couple dozen servers that are maybe big enough to form one raid team if they’re lucky. A for profit company doesn’t just want to break even. They want to make a sufficient profit. I doubt that Vanilla reaches that standard for Blizzard. And that’s why we didn’t see a BC era and are unlikely to see a wrath era.