To me it would be a nobrainer to have a rolling vanilla→tbc→wotlk server. With era-servers to step off at whenever you feel like it, be it to a vanilla, tbc or wotlk era-server.
Seeing the longlasting p-server community there is obviously a continous hunger for all of these three games over time. Seeing as they are each enjoyable in quite different ways.
This really is the only thing I would want from Blizzard. Am I the only one?
Edit: with rolling I mean it would restart on vanilla after wotlk is done. If characters arent moved to any prior era server the characters would move to wotlk-era.
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Era server for TBC and Wrath will never happen. To many options to chose from, making all 3 versions dead. Having Era for 60 only and rolling 60-80 progression servers are probably the only solution that they can offer with active players.
Remember that half of the people that will play TBC only wan’t Arena. With no running Seasons there will be no one playing. In wrath it’s the same.
Popular private servers that offer tbc and wotlk for 8years back now are progression servers, they quickly die off 3months into the last content and restart.
Vanilla setting are the only setting that works for a longlasting Era community.
( I wan’t Classic+ I wan’t TBC Era I wan’t Wrath Era I wan’t Mop Era) They can’t do all. They will only chose the one that have the highest demand wich are 60 Era servers with progression 60-80 like Anniversary and Classic+ maybe in the future.
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Era servers look like a great idea at first glance but the harsh reality is that unfortunately they would kill the game. If everyone has access to any game version at any time, then the playerbase will be too fractured. Also it will be impossible to hype people for any kind of new project. Players need time to start missing a certain expansion. A bit of artificial scarcity and nostalgia is needed, if you see what I mean.
It appears that WoW exists best in the form of huge waves of players divided into 2-3 progression timelines separated by 3-4 expansions, which is what we have now in the form of Anniversary, MoP and TWW
I am in for this IF there’s HC realms and not only mega servers - in short more realms of all kinds.
And of course all the bugs fixed.
But I’m afraid this would be too much to ask for.
This is an old fallacy. Access to all versions would let the game have more players total each spending more time playing. It would not be the Massive Overpopulated Online Game you have now, more like a MMORPG.
Since when is it a fallacy? Was it officially disproven by Blizzard, some compelling WoW statistics or professional logicians?
Anyways I am not in the mood to argue, let’s just agree to disagree
Just as proven as your point of view, but as we still disagree here - and let’s just keep on doing this - I’ll post my opinion every time I see yours, I’m not in the mood to either argue or just leave your opinion without riposte.
I see your reasoning but I don’t quite agree with it. Instead of having era, classic, anniversary, sod, retail and whatever we could just have era-servers, the rolling triology and retail for example.
In terms of fracturing the playerbase we would have already done it with the amount of different options available that could be replaced and cleaned up to something more longterm that allows players to commit to build characters in.
And you also need to factor in people like me and my friends who arent playing at all but would play if we had tbc/wotlk-era.
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