I never played Vanilla retail so I’m not “reliving” anything. I’m just playing the game I love.
You know, it’s pretty normal to play a game more than once after you finish it, maybe even more than two times. Some people play the same game over and over for years and years. How is that in any way extraordinary for you?
I like to view Classic as a traditional RPG. You play the game, you “beat” it, you move on - or start over, on a new character. Sure, the MMO aspect makes it a bit different - but the beauty of starting over is, you get to meet new people, get a new guild, experience a new realm, you get to do the whole journey all over again. I don’t see the harm in making a fresh server every now and then. Said fresh server could reset after enough time, that way you wouldn’t end up with too many of them in the end. There is a demand for fresh, and choosing to ignore that, well, it might cause some people to un-sub. I know I’m on the fence. If TBC doesn’t do it for me, I’m not sure I want to mess around on some museum server that’s permanently stuck on P6.
As I come close to the end of my Classic journey I am super happy I got a ret pally into full 2.5 with Ashkandi and I’m in Naxx doing moderately average DPS. And who knows, in a few weeks time I might even get my hands on Might of Menethil and I can do slightly better than moderately average DPS.
However I am sad that my tauran warrior, my nelf druid, my dwarf hunter and my forsaken warlock never made it to the end of Classic. But now, with P6 forever, they sort of can. And maybe, when they create the fresh servers (which I believe they intend to, eventualy) they can make the journey properly.
Same here:) I think that when the rushers are off to tbc, the classic era servers become a lot more relaxed and less elitist. I also think the game economy is going to recover. I just hope there will be enough players left to make it happen.
We don’t know how many if more than one mega-realm will be left for Classic era. As they feared people will move away early so they created layering and big pop-caps same may happen there.
Also when private servers opened fresh the existing one just died out, pretty much completely. So if/when fresh vanilla or fresh TBC becomes available there can be a big switch as well.
As for the economy - the less active realm becomes the less economy interaction is left. Like if a Naxx guild stays they will likely be self reliant. Or in general if active population will get low the world will have all the resources but very few to pick them up. If you would level in a very late state of a private server where existing guilds were farming Naxx then you could sell endless amount of alchemy fish and get mount gold even prior to leaving Barrens - even when some people are playing the amount of “workers” declines.
Yes, all depends on how many servers will be left and how many people will stay.
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