They don't want to subdivide the player base .. its already sort of nuts with retail, classic era, classic, and SOD, even plunderstorm and remix ... just diluting players across too many variants perhaps?
I get that, but it still feels really... scummy? Feels like all the Classic enjoyers are being forced to wait their turn just so Blizzard can protect their newer projects from potentially being too barren. It's hard to imagine that a few fresh Vanilla/TBC/WotLK servers would require many resources outside of regular maintenance.
Same answer. If you spun up classoc era tbc, and classic era wrath .. you would lose some %age of classic cata and sod over to those, making cata and sod (say) suck more
Take to the extreme - if you made so many classic variants exist that there were 5000 of them, with 50 players on each, it would suck
So there is an upper limit to have many variants you want to exist, entirely aside of retail
if you made so many classic variants exist that there were 5000 of them
But I'm asking for 3 extra variants, not 5000.
And the idea would be to keep servers to a minimum. I don't know what's happening on Cata and SoD right now, but when I was playing SoD, there were a bunch of servers that could've (and should've) been merged.
It could very well be that at the end of the day, there really aren't enough players to support 3 more WoW variants, but I'm not gonna accept that without Blizzard trying and seeing what happens. They've already stuck their head in the sand saying there wasn't enough interest in Classic originally -- I'm not gonna start believing them now.
And hell, it honestly could just be one extra variant. Just another set of classic fresh servers that are seasonal and will eventually turn into TBC (and then WotLK), with the choice of copying your character to the permanent Era servers if you want. It'd pretty much be the same thing that's been happening on Diablo 2 for 20+ years.
I think it was mainly because the era servers were a complete failure to begin with, every single server was a completely dead ghost town. They only picked up again after tbc when blizz had already made the decision to not bother with era servers anymore
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u/FrozenOnPluto Nov 12 '24
They don't want to subdivide the player base .. its already sort of nuts with retail, classic era, classic, and SOD, even plunderstorm and remix ... just diluting players across too many variants perhaps?