I’d have to disagree it sets the precedent that ever expansion of WoW should have its own Era. All that would end up doing is hurting every “version” of WoW by splitting the player base so much
If splitting the playerbase was a concern to Blizzard they wouldn’t have 4 versions of Classic, 3 of which are Classic Era. It might be inconceivable to some, but there are people out there who like neither Vanilla nor the next expansion as their primary time sink for the year.
I’m probably not “the majority” and I accept that, but I can’t justify giving Blizzard a monthly sub to play Vanilla or Cata so I just won’t sub. Blizzard should do a cost-benefit analysis of maintaining TBC or WOTLK servers for people who solely want to play that version of the game or at the very least some progression trilogy series.
Blizzard has competition for people who want to play older versions or even different versions of older versions of WOW. If they can afford to keep their Classic audience content, they’ll still get that sub money. If they don’t give them an option, they’ll just go elsewhere.
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no its not, no one plays era servers, stop spamming on your 20 alts about the topic.
As long as warmane exist a wotlk server with over 10k players thats been up for 12 years…there would be no point of a crappy Classic era server that will have less than 100 people on it.
Blizzard isn’t wasting money nor are they ignorant, they see the amount of players on era servers…they are empty.
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I’m sure they have and that market analysis is why they decided not to have those era servers. They could have made a mistake. In the final analysis there’s no way to be 100% sure how many would play on those servers. But blizzard has so much data on the players, multiple times more than we have, so their best guess is likely more accurate than ours.
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Not sure data is as predictable as the game runs on nostalgia playing it as it was before the raids became a pissing contest between designers and players added in cata. Things like hardcore and forging the fun is nice. I am not sure about split as if you had all the expansions plus the modified vanilla everyone would just broadly play what they will.
I mean for example you might see 15% vanilla, 25%tbc, 25%wrath, 10% modified vanilla, 30% mop+legion, and -5% cataclysm with some movement between the expansions as people reminisce.
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should i start playing this today if i wanna continue the story after warcraft3
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The issue they will find then is that they’re focusing on the two big fish and losing the many little fish of the Classic market. It’s not simply a matter of people will unsubscribe, but that they will go to pservers for the era of WOW they want.
It could cause some population issues, but I think the people who are in said expansion will want to be there. In WOLTKC we had so many different types of players that it really changed the Classic experience immensely. Many of those people will move on to Cata and you’d only have people who are enthusiasts of the expansion in expansion era realms.
Will it syphon players away from prog and classic era? Probably, and I think that’s a good thing because it will allow people to fit in where they need to. I’d wager to guess that TBC would do okay, WOTLK would be dead at first but pick up (especially if they removed titan rune) after the people who moved to Cata left, Prog would probably be reduced to 50% of its current population, and SoD and CE would be about the same in popularity, very similar to the percentages you posted but probably like 20% TBC, 30% WOTLK after some time.
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I couldn’t agree more pumar. I want a permanent version of wrath classic so badly.
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Nostalgia was and is still a huge selling point for the old expansions. And with how nostalgia works now. I wouldn’t be surprised if classic servers got remade again in 2034 for vanilla classic. Litteraly like 2 years go by nowadays and it is suddenly nostalgic.
Now as for me, I just want permanent wrath classic server options. I think the nostalgia kicked in for me personally, because there was no way of playing vanilla, bc or wrath legally as permanent options. And there is currently for vanilla classic, but not bc or wrath classic. I don’t understand why we cannot have those options to.
At the same time, myself and many others agree that cataclysm will be the end of classic. It is litteraly the reason why I wanted classic servers in the first place. At the same time, I do want to play cataclysm classic. There were some good moments there. But, I want permanent wrath classic server options to. And I feel no enthusiasm for anything wow related as a result.
But guaranteed there will be a nostalgia rush again in like 10 years, and vanilla classic will be re released all over again in 2034.
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You may be salty that people aren’t playing Wrath Classic with you, but you don’t have to call Classic names.
I mean, I stopped playing wrath classic when they announced that there wasn’t going to be a permanent option for wrath classic currently in the works. I saw no point after that.
But I mean, you all have multiple versions of classic. Why can’t we have multiple versions of wrath classic to. Like I don’t get it.
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