Also I think there are plenty ppl who just level their characters to release of TBC (at least me and also few of my mates do it, I think we are not alone there) who will drop after getting lvled up
I think fresh will die out somewhat quickly, going from sod to fresh is gonna be painful.
But thats just my opinion.
Yes, i 100% agree that people are sheep. We saw the same during the countless world pvp discussions. Going pvp servers while hating pvp, but they chose it because it was the bigger server. If the “pve people” chose the servers to their liking, i bet the pve servers would be the biggest.
But i dont feel you can blame blizzard that people are sheep, its the peoples fault for being, how can i put this delicately…well dumb(this is my opinion anyway).
Blizzard wants to meet everyones demands, obviously for money but still wants to meet them. As far as i can tell, alot of people wanted fresh, they got it. Alot of people wanted HC as well, and they gets it as well (unless im mistaken?).
I dont know how many people will leave sod to start on fresh/hc, and i highly doubt ill notice any difference.
This is a bigger problem to sod, than releasing fresh/hc.
Yes, i highly doubt it though. Its, as you said it, the hype train. Once it dies, they see that the grass aint greener on the other side.