Originally Posted by
Rinaquenon
Is this actually a thing? I've never heard of the idea of a server getting wiped. Fresh servers starting and people re-rolling of their own accord, yes, but deleting characters and starting over? Have people actually suggested that?
In short, no, not a chance. I wouldn't be happy with that idea, nor do I believe there's even a remote possibility it will happen. The QQ would be epic.
What I DO believe will happen is that new servers will be created and people will continue to make alts. Specifically if there's a progressive patch release, or time-gated content, the idea of starting over could be awesome. Eventually, I suspect the first wave of servers will get populated by people who have capped everything and are ready for an alt. The idea of a fresh time-gated server to roll a new character on is a great one. The idea of a fresh server that deletes your current toons and forces a reroll is insane.
To add onto this, if they make BC servers eventually, I'd be in favour of a character copy option for those servers - allowing you to copy your character to the BC server, instead of doing it like an expansion, where suddenly everything changes and you basically have to continue. Some people just want Vanilla forever, even if things get stale. Forcing a deletion, or forcing an expansion would be a bad idea imo (though, fresh servers could address this to a point.)