隨著暴雪嘉年華的臨近,《魔獸世界》Plus服社區最近舉行「Community Fresh」(從零開始)活動,熱度直線上升。有傳言Plus服(探索賽季服)要開新服,開全新賽季,官方出來闢謠。

Josh Greenfield是魔獸懷舊服負責人,也是Plus服的主要設計師,他在6月30日發推文,稱不會開新的Plus服了。
原貼:
There will be no fresh SoD. "Just open a new server" is not as trivial as most people think it is. It requires many teams and a large portion of the Classic team to make that happen. Then there's an ongoing effort to manage each phase as it rolls out. With other things we have going on, that's a distraction we can't afford. I hate to come in and definitively say things like this but as you say, it would suck to NOT play this current revival in the vain hope some fresh realm will spin up and yeah, that just isn't happening right now. While I obviously love SoD and I'm very excited about the current event that's happening, it would be irresponsible for us to split our time on this right now. Thanks for asking though. See you guys at Blizzcon!
「沒有新的探索賽季(SoD)了。直接開個新服就好,不是很多人想得那麼簡單。要多個團隊參與,要懷舊團隊的諸多人力投入。伺服器上線之後還要持續管理,進行各階段的更新。鑑於我們手頭還有其他工作,現在還不能分心。」
「我不想把話說絕,但空等一個可能永遠不會出現的新服,而錯過當下這波復興熱潮,屬實可惜。事實就是,現在不打算開新服。雖然我愛探索賽季,也很高興見到最近的活動,但目前沒有精力去做其他事。」

「Community Fresh」活動於上周在歐服開啟,促使在線人數翻倍,496,004名參團玩家也創下自2024年1月以來的紀錄。該活動的本質是「重走革命老路」,參與活動的多數玩家選擇鎖經驗,以重現「探索賽季」剛開服時的體驗,包括每個階段遵循最初的等級上限。本周開始,活動推進到第二階段,玩家開始向40級進發,體驗新的升級途徑、海量任務獎勵、荊棘谷的「血月」PvP活動、可製作的全新專業裝備,以及諾莫瑞根團隊。


Plus服是國服稱呼,官方名稱「探索賽季」服(Season of Discovery,簡稱 SoD)。在此之前,各大懷舊區主播齊聚暴雪總部,參與神秘測試,全新1.15.9補丁也經數據挖掘。種種跡象表明,暴雪正在準備全新60懷舊,被國內稱作Plus2.0的項目,預計在暴雪嘉年華上宣布。






