I have viewed your profile on Linkedin. You have been in your current position for almost 4 years. Unfortunately you don’t have any Blizzard/Game background in your career. I have been playing WOW since 2005. And also I have been in corporate life for more than 14 years. My proficiency is in sales, business development and strategy. I am using my precious time and writing to you. If you are smart enough, you consider this suggestion.
I would like to see a new server where we can play Classic Era and TBC Era together. I would like to go back and forth with permanent clones and travel between expansions via the dark portal on the same character. While we are going back and forth through the dark portal we save our current character’s progress in the certain expansion without changing a thing in the classic era. It will be like I will raid Naxx on wednesday in Azeroth with my character’s lvl 60 version and on Thursday, I will raid in Black Temple in Outlands with the lvl 70 version of the same character. I don’t like Wotlk but if you want to make others happy, you can add Wotlk expansion as well. So people can play these 3 expansions together with the same character by keeping the progression in each expansion without changing anything.
While I am trying to get Thunderfury from MC for my rogue or Kingsfall from KT in Naxx, in the same week I want to raid for Warglaives in BT.
I am not sure you are familiar with in-game abbreviations therefore please ask your game masters. MC: Molten Core (Dungeon), Kinsfall (dagger), KT (Kel’thuzad - Last boss in Naxx), Naxx (Naxxramas-Dungeon in Classic-Era), BT (Black Temple).
P.S: Game Masters please forward this topic or I will directly send a message to him from Linkedin.
Game masters do not work on the forums and do not collect feedback, please post in the megathread re: clones.
Also the suggested clone abilities in your post was even available as a feature. They simply made a copy and then they diverted from that point on. No going:
Even at the current retail Character Transfer, you cannot transfer down a lower expansion level account for example, it must be the same or higher account level expansion.
Try and read the entire post of OP again. She does not suggesting taking TBC items, talents, gold etc back to classic the way I understand it. What she wants is 1 char on TBC and one on era. But I assume any rep grinding, titles, items etc that you get in Era to also count for her TBC clone.
OP wants dynamic character / clone - you go to TBC-C you are the level you made there - you go to Era, you are the level you made there, you go to Wrath you are your Wrath-level. 1 character active in 3 expansioons. :s
Sounds like one bugger of data complexity to me.
Another post of someone that wants something that technically is impossible.
No because software engineering can’t solve this issue, but because how IT was solved back the days of the game development stage.
To make it clear …
If you want to go through the Dark Portal and load different game versions, you will need to close and run the game each time you go through the portal.
Hi my friend. For my last 5- 6 years, I was managing the sales departments of SAAS companies. And software engineering and architecture is my personal interest. I know how to code. It is incredibly easy to code the idea that I am giving. There will be 1 character, let’s say X and 3 different versions of it (x1 (classic era), x2(TBC) ,x3 (Wotlk)) in your database. There will be portals in the game like Dark Portal, everytime you use these portals for travelling from 1 expansion to another, your code will call the related X version. And the system will update/save each version of it during the game. So simple. There will not be 3 servers, there will be 1 server. For example, you are in Outland lvl 70 Warlock and you want to go to Classic Era to raid in Naxx with your lvl 60 version and progression. You will use the Dark Portal. As soon as you use it, the system will call x1 and you will go on playing your lvl 60 character with its up-to-date version of it. At the same time, you will be able to travel Azeroth with your lvl 70 or lvl 80 version since you do not use portals.
I expected cloning to be available after SOM - 1 copy for Era and 1 copy for WOTLK. But it didn’t happen because of all the issues with Era/TBC clones. So I don’t expect cloning to be available in the near future.
What do you not seems to understand is that every game version has an specific local database which stores all 3D models and assets for that game version. That local database is loaded the first time you spin-up the game.
Server’s side databases do not stores 3D Models and assets. Ony serve as remote store of your characters informations (name, location, items, etc) and provides communication channels for every single game client to be updated at every time.
So if you want to be able to kind of “move” from one game version to other game version, you will require to have all game database versions loaded at the same time in your machine, and also have all the resources to connect to the right version of the server’s side, and what’s even worst, have running the game engine (which renders the information and 3D Models) being dinamically loaded.
Is it technically possible? Maybe. Is it recommended? No.
You will make users to have installed hundred of Gb of information stored in the HDD.
The game executable will required serveral Gb of RAM.
And every time you cross the portal, you will require to shut-down the game engine, change the game version, and spin-up the new game engine.
Lot of handicaps that can’t be easily solved just to allow players to go through a portal and completely change the game version.
Because there are financial reasons to it. Blizzard want you to spend as much time as possible playing million versions of WoW for the Monthly Active Users (MAU) numbers to be presented to their shareholders. Leveling number of alts in several versions is longer that leveling like 3 characters on Wrath with heirlooms and then switching game versions.
