Burning Crusade Classic Character Clone Service is Retiring Soon

[Bloodbayne]

Isn't Classic Era realms like, all dead?

Not really now that they've coordinated their servers and playtimes, also the mass server merge helped. I mean people think in order to be alive it needs to have millions of players which is just not true. A successful MMO before WoW's time didn't even have a million players. I think EQ hit 500k in it's peak. People act like Classic Era might as well be dead and I couldn't disagree more. We always knew it was going to be a niche community left over. The whole point was to undo the mistake of not just having a Legacy character option to begin with in 2007 and ever expansion thereafter. Kind of odd that you could make a pre-expansion character in Diablo 2 in 2001 but not with WoW in 2007.

Now the boneheads at Blizzard are making the same mistake again with BC. Granted SoM does kind of split the community further, but if they did SoM correctly (no transfers from Phase 6 servers to screw it up and way more than 40% experience which they did increase to 100%) then it would have been fine. But again, we always knew these would be smaller niche communities, the people who missed out, or got sick or didn't have time for Classic in 2019/2020 and really wanted to play, the speed running community which is actually larger than most speed running communities. 5-10k is fine for a niche community. And Blizzard should be smart enough to leave every version of Classic up, eventually they'd be farming about a million players, assuming the Classic experiment went all through the expansions. The entire thing should have been built into Retail anyways, just go through a time portal and boom you're in Classic mode with all gold/inventory separate, all completion data and stats/skills/talents the way they were then.

[Fabled]

Where does it state we won't have a clone option for BC to Wrath? It's just stating the clone option from Vanilla to BC is going away.

To me this sounds like they're closing down the Vanilla cloning, to make way for BC cloning.

what?tbc isnt staying?just vanila?

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/wowhead...elopers-326787

It was revealed that there would be no "Era Realms" for Burning Crusade Classic, and the Burning Crusade Classic client will just transition into Wrath of the Lich King, without any option for players to do character clone services. Patrick Dawson also mentioning, this also doesn't rule out the possibility of a Burning Crusade Season in the future, it just means it won't be happening anytime soon.

[Unholyground]

With GPU prices in the 1000-2000€, with gaming wattage in the 400-600W + monitor(s) and everything else, I am not sure if PC gaming is something you should keep as a hobby if the WOW subscription is a major deciding factor in your gaming budget.

The WoW subscription is not even adjusted for the inflation yet.

42$ a month is quite a bit for 2 people to play a single game.

[deenman]

https://tbc.wowhead.com/news/wowhead...elopers-326787

fuckkkkk what oh noes

[Adamas102]

The WoW subscription is not even adjusted for the inflation yet.

Nor should it be unless you're arguing from the position of executives needing bigger bonuses.

[Azadina]

The WoW subscription is not even adjusted for the inflation yet.

Instead of the price being adjusted in the monthly fee, it's been out of the game and content quality for nearly a decade. I'd rather have them adjust the monthly fee.

[cparle87]

The cost is your prohibiting factor? The game charging no money from the top down would change how you felt?

If they're quibbling over 50c a day for the most expensive subscription offer then it's clear they're just looking for something to complain about so they can justify complaining.

Especially considering they've never adjusted for inflation WoW is cheaper now than it was in 2004.

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It’s not about the 15 dollars being “too much”,
It’s about not wanting to support these cash grabbing greedy practices. Warmane WoTLK is super popular at the moment with endless queues at zero dollars. Even if they shut it down; a thousand warmanes will be launched.

They know classic realms are completely dead yet they want people to pay for discounted clones they will never ever touch anyway because nobody plays on these realms anymore. Everyone is disgusted by blizzard. People are back to pservers.

The mental gymnastics here are boggling. How do you equate paying for a service you want with being the same as supporting a service you don't pay for?

Also got to love supporting thieves. Way to be classy.

Then we have the "everyone" agrees with my opinion and will do what I do argument.

Digital piracy should include a 15 to life sentence.

[digitalphreak]

Digital piracy should include a 15 to life sentence.

The most moronic take I've heard in a hot minute regarding software piracy. Did you make the "you wouldn't steal a car" videos in the 00's?

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It should always have been a brand new toon with each server

Wrath is going to be so fucked for new players (which there will be) because they don't have tens of thousands or more saved from GDKP runs, they should've been treated as entirely different games and require different characters

You're acting as if there was any shot for new players to be on the level of a type of player that would have tens of thousands in gold. They wouldn't. There is no scenario where they would be. Currency in nearly every *popular* online game is inflated asf. Name one that isn't. I'll wait.

TL;DR Your point is moot and irrelevant.

[Gimlix]

Isn't Classic Era realms like, all dead?

Dead? Nah. I tried out some realms that seem more active then Retail. They just gotta merge all into 1 realm though. Would be nice to see 1 massive realm.

[cparle87]

The most moronic take I've heard in a hot minute regarding software piracy. Did you make the "you wouldn't steal a car" videos in the 00's?

I saw my favorite MMO in high school destroyed after hackers broke in, took a copy of the game, and destroyed everything they could get ahold of. The game vanished for years before re-emerging a tiny shadow of what it was, that had dozens or hundreds of pservers competing with it, and eventually fell prey to worse than p2w practices. And why? Because the game was going from the free beta to a sub.

[Verdugo]

I saw my favorite MMO in high school destroyed after hackers broke in, took a copy of the game, and destroyed everything they could get ahold of. The game vanished for years before re-emerging a tiny shadow of what it was, that had dozens or hundreds of pservers competing with it, and eventually fell prey to worse than p2w practices. And why? Because the game was going from the free beta to a sub.

Sounds like greed destroyed them.

[DarkAmbient]

Why send all the TBC players back to private servers? Surely it wouldn't kill Blizzard to keep some servers open.

[Stanelis1]

Isn't Classic Era realms like, all dead?

For now, but don t forget it s also because tbc and som realms are currently running. Starting from wotlk classic I actually expect some people to go back to classic servers

[cparle87]

Sounds like greed destroyed them.

Imagine if when WoW was ending its beta and going live someone hacked in, stole a copy of the game, put it out on the internet so anyone could make a pserver if they wanted, then destroyed everything on Blizzard's servers. WoW disappears for years and when it finally launches zones are half the size they used to be, half the professions are gone, half the classes are gone. All those guys running the private servers claim they're doing so cause they're fans or that they disapprove of how Blizzard is running things. But all they did was cause a downward spiral that killed the game.

[Verdugo]

Imagine if when WoW was ending its beta and going live someone hacked in, stole a copy of the game, put it out on the internet so anyone could make a pserver if they wanted, then destroyed everything on Blizzard's servers. WoW disappears for years and when it finally launches zones are half the size they used to be, half the professions are gone, half the classes are gone. All those guys running the private servers claim they're doing so cause they're fans or that they disapprove of how Blizzard is running things. But all they did was cause a downward spiral that killed the game.

Sounds like retail.

[cparle87]

Sounds like retail.

Do you actually consider the posts you read or do you just use them as an opportunity to bash on WoW?

I don't recall Blizzard having to sell themselves to another company, shut WoW down for 3 years, only to come back years later with half the game missing because hackers were butthurt.

Add to the fact that the only way they were able to launch WoW in the first place was by cannibalizing all their other proejcts to cobble it together. So no HS, no HotS, no SC2, no D3.

[Zoura]

Dead? Nah. I tried out some realms that seem more active then Retail. They just gotta merge all into 1 realm though. Would be nice to see 1 massive realm.

Guaranteed not more active than retail.