I just want to let you know that the door to my house is always open, (Era). You are welcome to stay as long as you wish too. But there are rules. Don’t demand anything, respect the rules, and do not move any furniture, it stays where it is and stays as it is.
If you didn’t understand it, what I’m trying to say, if you wish to continue on Era… please don’t demand stupid ideas and stupid changes. Let the museum piece be a museum piece and just go with the flow. Otherwise the door’s always open and you can f*** off somewhere else.
As far I read the plans, Anniversary is done in 2026, and then comes TBC.
We still don’t know if it is even possible to transfer to Era yet so this topic is kind of useless.
I was there in Vanilla in 2005, Classic is the best version of WoW in my opinion, and yet I won’t be against a Classic+ that would enhance the experience without distorting it (so not like SoD which is complete delirium).
That a developer team takes care of adjusting and correcting certain class defects, review the loot tables for better consistency of item statistics, better abundance of loots, more fluid leveling with better quest rewards (xp + gold) for not having to undergo boosts, melee/spellcleave, brainless grind, etc.
Review the crafting system so that it’s useful even at low level and not just HL (a blacksmith can not even equip himself during his leveling except in very very rare occasion)…
It’s probably too much demand for the current Blizzard, but that’s what many are asking for… Few players want to stay ad nauseam in a finite universe or there is no hope of evolution, what ERA is. If you like it, so much the better for you, but for many, that’s not what we expect.
Era is a set client, as in it’s at 60 and that’s it.
Classic is currently on Cata but soon to be MoP which is 90 (iirc, been a while)
Retail is kinda moot here.
So after anniversary servers go to TBC which brings a level 70 there isn’t a home at the end of the “season” or expansion.
Options would be,
TBC era
Continue into Wrath
Or both?
I think personally it’ll continue to wrath and then a Wrath era server becomes established. Wrath era was a big oversight imo and something the player base wanted.
SoD is a fun kettle of fish and at a wild guess those characters could land in a classic+ environment but that means classes have all those abilities? Or they just have to have a SoD era which they might call plus and be done with it?
As for Era, yeah just leave it be. It’s what it’s meant to be.
If you’re not willing to move the furniture around a bit and add a few ornaments here and there, it’s not really accommodating for the people you’re inviting, only for yourself and for the other 4 members of your family is it? Thing is, the house that you claim that is “yours” is funded by the state, and they care more about the number of people they can collect rent from than whatever other values the previous residents assign to that place
What I’m trying to say is that Blizzard will decide if adding Aniserver changes to Era is better when it comes to the money being made with their character cloning service at the end of Classic → TBC, or if it’s better to “make a new home”, or a “sister server” to Era with those changes that the minority on ERA pushback so strongly
Both outcomes are bad anyway, one leads to #nochange zealots to quit, and the other leads to a further divided Classic community, which leads to servers dying at a quicker rate
I don’t think the divide community arguement stands up as well as once thought.
With clever content schedules, Blizzard can navigate in such a manner that lets players do want they want on this version, then chill out on that version, then do this thing on another version.
I don’t players are quite so black and white that they will only ever play in one specific version of wow, rather they’ll player the version they want at whatever given time.
I’m not against Era staying the way it currently is, people seeem to enjoy it the way it is, so be it
Unfortunately I don’t feel compelled to clone my characters there (at least the one’s that I wish to play PvP AND PvE with, since re-speccing is way too expensive, and I’m not going to buy gold from bots or run GDKP’s to fund 50g a pop of respeccing, sometimes 4 times a day
other than this change, I want the game to stay the way it is on Era
Era is home to all who want a familiar, yet different WoW experience.
I disagree with the view you need content to keep a place alive. To me what makes Era alive are the people playing in it. The “available content” is just the backdrop, the landscape in which we play. We are the content.
But again, it is not for everyone, and that is why there are many options available.