Policy Update for Input Broadcasting - May 2021

[EaTCarbS]

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Why are they going to jump through all those hoops to support a vast minority of their population? Getting the classic server in the first place was pulling teeth... add the massive amount of people who started using multiboxing to farm mats en masse and you've got the straw that broke the camel's back. Its purely an appeasement move, and someone has to get thrown under the bus.

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Why are they going to jump through all those hoops to support a vast minority of their population? Getting the classic server in the first place was pulling teeth... add the massive amount of people who started using multiboxing to farm mats en masse and you've got the straw that broke the camel's back. Its purely an appeasement move, and someone has to get thrown under the bus.

Blizzard already has the tech to easily create one or more servers and limit realm transfers if/as needed and limit auction house integration... Likely some folk that don't really multibox but don't care much about it would also create characters there (for example, just in my case, my brother and at least 3 friends also would create characters there). It would be easy to do and likely a single server for that would have more active population than some of the other servers...

There are lots of dead servers currently and really they should look at merging servers after the TBC Hype dies off and the active server populations go back to a relatively steady state. My understanding is that their servers are VMs with underlying hardware hosts so they should already even have the hardware capacity via flexible ways of growing/shrinking VMs (including shards/etc).

I don't think Blizzard would do it but it isn't difficult nor beyond current capabilities (nothing really new would be needed).

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Blizzard already has the tech to easily create one or more servers and limit realm transfers if/as needed and limit auction house integration... Likely some folk that don't really multibox but don't care much about it would also create characters there (for example, just in my case, my brother and at least 3 friends also would create characters there). It would be easy to do and likely a single server for that would have more active population than some of the other servers...

There are lots of dead servers currently and really they should look at merging servers after the TBC Hype dies off and the active server populations go back to a relatively steady state.

I don't think Blizzard would do it but it isn't difficult nor beyond current capabilities (nothing really new would be needed).

I can see some of this happening in the future, maybe. Though it's not something i would expect anytime soon, considering they're only just now getting around to launching older expansion servers.

Everquest has been doing the same thing for years and years, with varying rulesets, marketplace purchases, etc. So to some extent i'd honestly expect a lot of what Everquest does now to end up happening to a degree for WoW "Classic" servers. Not to mention they specifically hired Holly Longdale (who basically, if not literally lead all of those things Everquest did for EQ TLPs, of which made DBG a lot of money every time there was a new server launched). So now she's working for Acti-Blizz, and we'll see what ends up happening in the future.