Because you blizzard are incompetent people at the moment, you management sucks, laying off people, releasing buggy patches in retail, separating community because different people prefer different versions of the game but you’re pretty much forcing to play newest versions, you’ve screwed up really hard by doing 0 actions to establish balance on classic which now leaded to mass imbalance across all realms in open world. Even 50/50 realms will have huge imbalance because alliance on all of the realms have insta queues in battlegrounds while Horde doesn’t.
By releasing intelectual property and letting people open their own serves by paying to you we will be able to choose the best managed servers.
We will be able to play on the servers where admins really care about their income so they would try their best to establish balance and make people happy.
You will have thousands of servers who will pay you a cut from profits, will pay you fees in order to hold a server officially.
just like we can choose to which Mcdonalds we go, we will be able to choose to which server we will go.
You screwed up really hard with release, I personally saw it coming because with no restrictions on factions, with no faction changes, with free/payed but only items restrictions on transfer you continue harming your own game.
I hope you will make the right decisions and will do something about current imbalance.
People stop blaming and sh1tting on each other. The root of the problem was release and 0 control over faction populations. AV, Racials, people mentality has little to do with current situation, all would have been avoided by just controlling faction ratios.
How much would you be willing to pay per month to play on a server which forced balance? Say with a login queue that only let exactly the same number of players on each faction online?
Could you explain where are you going to with this question? Because you might get an answer from very different angle than you intend.
But I would pay the same as we pay now. I will make a blind guess that WoW is very profitable game and the things they’re doing is a mix of greed and incompetence in the management, there were tweets from people leaving blizzard because of incompetence + replacing good workers with cheaper workers.
To extend my point I don’t think it’s much of work to implement system which tracks people who haven’t played for 2 weeks for example and freeing up spot on those realms.
Boosting services would be thriving there but w/e, I don’t see much problem in boosting.
It would be better than it’s now.
That is not how franchises work though. Blizzard wouldn’t lease out the server software and IP for nothing. Obviously they would ask AT LEAST $15 per user per month for “private” blizzard servers. So you as a player would have to pay more if you want the server to stay up and even more if you want 24/7 admins.
So how much would that be? 20€? 50€? 100€?
The problems are ALOT bigger than here with wow…
Google up wats happening with activision blizzard last 12months.
Its chaos.
OW, btw its A known fact that blizzard (activision) pay the minimum of wages.
You cant expect them to care about us, if they dnt even care for there own.
I read a bunch how MCdonalds franchise work and for some reason MCdonalds is far from luxurious place. However different MCdonalds can offer you different service and different products to some extent.
15$ would be reasonable. I doubt it would raise above that, maybe in some really luxurious servers. But still I guess it would be better than it’s now if they would give a green light to this.
Yes, but corporate determines the pricing. So again how much would you be willing to pay for the service?
I already answered you. If you have an information from very deep sources and would be able to count the pricing and not taking numbers from you imagination I would like to hear that. If you’re not willing to count, or haven’t counted I don’t think we should be talking about that.
so you just want more for same price. which just aint gonna happen. there is no point in this thread
It depends on the continent where the servers would be held. Corporate decided pricing, just as mcdonalds doesn’t have fixed pricing, wow wouldn’t have fixed pricing either. Blizzard would have to code stuff and nothing more, unless they decide to keep their own servers too. MCdosnalds are held by private people, me or you could open mcdonalds, they would supply us with products, we pay them for products, fixed price for having their name, we pay for the fridges and stuff they provide, but rent, employees, quality is up to the person who opened it.
So no I don’t want more. I want them to release intelectual property to private people who’re willing to pay them money and just forget about managing so much stuff, because they’re not able to do this.
NCsoft did it, they released franchise to some extent. Some servers of L2 were doing better, some worse. Some have inormous amount of bots, some don’t. Some has to pay subscription, some is F2P but OP P2W in-game shop.
That’s not how you imagine. There would be a lot of choice, they dictate rules to some extent. They release patch and it’s up to franchise to decide if they implement that patch to their server or not. There’s way more freedom than you imagine.
Private server only gona have rich ppl on it and kork cant join like al ways
So you want them to give away their cash cow for nothing… I wonder if that is going to happen…
Plenty of companies already did that and they see a lot of profit. Not for nothing. Franchise = paying for the name, paying for the equipment, paying for whatever they will want to be payed for. It’s far away from nothing. There will be a lot of servers which will fail but still will have payed 10k or smth in that range in order to get everything needed to open the server and it won’t be refundable.
How will they see any profit if they are giving it away for free? I already suggested a franchising fee, but you were against it (or at least not willing to pay for it).
What?
Read my post again dude. I never told for free.
Again how much are you willing to pay for these servers? Because I can guarantee you that it wont be just 13€/month since Blizzard will want just that amount for the game since they aren’t going to be losing on this deal.
Nice split the community into thousands on smaller communities that can’t interract with each other in anyway.
That is the same flawed logic that “Every pirated copy is lost money on a sale that didn’t happen”.
If there are X players that won’t play this mess but would play a 3rd party controlled one, Blizzard doesn’t need to get the same amount of money from those X players, they could get less because is “free money” that would not get otherwise.
There will be people who will pay more. They can still hold their own servers. NCsoft Lineage2 official franchise companie = NCwest, Innova, BSFG and this is as far as I know. There might be more. NCsoft also hold their own servers in korea.
Some servers can run in game items shop to raise their profits and keep Subscription costs lower, some can run ads in order to keep their subs cost lower. There’re plenty of options. Mount skins. It won’t be the game we have today, but it will be better.
Expec that is not flawed logic. Kids just like to make that argument to feel better about stealing content.
That is a big if and I’m sure you can find someone. Heck, you can find a lot of people who would play insta level 60 with free gear version of vanilla. They just want the stuff. But you can never please anyone.
On the same vein I’m sure there would be more players if the game was free, but quality would also go down. You are also just asking for free stuff.
Are you sure? With telling that different people have different preferences proves my point that franchise is needed. Will use same example of Lineage2. Private unofficial servers have ±7k population while official servers have ±1k population because private people are looking into what makes them good, while official servers are looking into what will make them good in the eyes of shareholders of NCsoft. BSFG is exception, they’re doing good because they bought the game files and bought permission to remake the game into what they want and be independent from NCsoft. NCsoft came to ask them to sell their own recreated game, but BSFG showed them middle finger. Also Innova screwed up when they put p2w shop on top of subscriptions, it used to be one of the best places to play since the fall of NCsoft and NCwest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFD06UFscw&t=135s
Private server which was closed down by blizzard and was a start in opening classic servers.
https://youtu.be/5AiMqnMxIL0
Blizzard held servers.
Franchise will do way better job with older versions than Blizzard can. World Boss PvP is one of the best comparisons between Blizzard vs Private servers.
For some reason free servers were providing better experience, private server are the reason we have now Classic, they were shut down so they gathered up to ask blizzard to create their own server if they’re not allowing to have franchise.
But blizzard aren’t competent enough to provide us best possible experience, their aim is unknown… I can’t understand why are they doing all mentioned above.