Pre-bc servers, yes and no

#0 - April 2, 2009, 5:20 p.m.
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Hey, Ive been looking around a lot of threads videos etc. and ofc, who doesn't want to be raiding old-school again and just have fun with friends. Harder instances, more world PvP, and most of all, the time when the gold was so hard to get (for some), you had to spend a couple of hours to even respecc for 30g. And i remember, the first time you hitted level 60, you couldnt wait to get your first epic mount and that could really take some time to get! Now you get enough money by leveling up and completing questes. That is why I stopped playing when WoTLk came out. I hitted 80 and then wtf? Do some Wintergrasp for honor, raiding naxxramas and kill the bosses on your first try? Where's the competition?

I played on Quel'Thalas (EU) for about a month, sadly I got hacked after one moth when i had some epics from MC but it was great fun. I played in a guild called Reflecion (http://www.reflectionwow.com).
When I got my account back, about 1 moth later, I had been kicked from the guild (ofc) so i searched on Reflection in /who and it was about 2 people online... I checked their forum and just because the bad dedication of the guild mates, they had to stop raiding. It was one of the best pre bc guilds Ive ever seen, and Ive googled around a lot for these guild and this (I think) was the most proffesionall guild ever in these days that still did MC, ZG, BWL, AQ 40 etc. We only raided with talents that was pre bc, at least as good as possible. One of the problems is ofc that Blizzard deleted the 60 instance of Naxxramas. But also all the noobs that joined the guild. I mean, if the guild only had dedicated players the guild would survive just fine, but as long as there are no pre-bc servers set up by Blizzard, there won't be any intrest by the community exept on forums and video sites like YouTube.

Here's some reasons why Blizzard doesn't like this suggestion:

1. One of the biggest reasons. Blizzard will lose a lot of money since they dont have to upgrade the game anymore. A lot of creators in Blizzard will have to quit their jobs just because the community want's these servers. On the other hand it depends on how may that will start playing on pre bc servers.
If about 70% of the community starts playing on pre bc servers, yes they will lose jobs, but on the other hand they will get a lot of new players who stopped playing because of BC so i guess they will make profit but they will have to fire people. But if about 40% of the community started playing on pre bc servers they would still make a lot of new account creations/payments and still don'e have to fire anyone because of it.

2.Blizzard are lazy :)

On the other hand:
Blizzard earns more money for sure
I would guess about 100.000 more people would start playing again because of it.

What can they do?
Well, how about a new relese of the game? If you really want to play old school, but it for 50 dollars.
Make a patch that you can buy online would be another option.
Pay 2 dollars a month more for having a account that is playable on pre bc servers.

Other suggestions? Write them and please I know this has been around for a long time so don't post comments like "bah blizzard will never make this" and "you're retarded"

PS. Im impressed if you took the time to read all this.

#3 - April 2, 2009, 5:34 p.m.
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Please take a look at the following sticky on this subject.
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=3405101623&sid=1