Because they wouldn't be able to:
"-sell mounts"
Doesn't effect what 7.4 was, so yes, they could sell them.
-sell runes and fluids and potion casks, and blessings
Agree, but this isn't where the bulk of their profit comes from, this is only a boost during the start of a server, which wouldn't be a bother if they had it missing from a 7.4- you're also & I think a lot of people get this confused, it's not like releasing a 7.4 suddenly STOPs them from releasing new servers, like I don't know where that notion comes from but it's not like they couldn't do 7.4, and then ALSO afterwards release new servers as well as tournaments world.
The biggest loss would be training weapons- this is huge income for CIP, especially during double, but again we're talking about 1 server, not everyone is going to leave their server to play a 7.4, people will still purchase things on other servers, the notion that 7.4 is the DOOM of all other servers is the real fucking myth.
-sell anything else other than premium account
They can sell Mounts, Outfits and all the decorative items because none of these had absolutely any effect on the overall/grand scheme of how 7.4 was, or how it was played, it wouldn't be hard to take the +10 speed off of the mounts if people were to bitch over something like that.
Now this is getting off from the original point to who I originally directed my comment towards but we can deviate from that.
People have this weird notion that if they were to make 7.4, it'd have to be an authentic 1 to 1 replica, but it never would be- You realize how much people know now compared to then, how much the Wiki helps, how much knowing how to hunt & where to hunt helped? It was a struggle then because people just
didn't know, that's no longer an issue- knowledge will break any perception of how you think 7.4 was & used to be.
It will take long to still make level 100, due to the rune creating system but don't think for a second that it'd take as long as it did before.
The majority of players also didn't have Premium, premium is not only borderline mandatory nowadays but people just have better access to purchasing for things online & are more receptive to doing so, this along changes how 7.4 was.
-Besides i think such a project could be possible if cipsoft literally took their time and effort to rewrite&remake tibia 7.4 from scratch, but i don't believe the payoff for doing so would be that huge.
They wouldn't need too rewrite it, use the new client, keep the analyzers etc, the biggest thing about 7.4 was the rune making & the rune aiming, everything else in my opinion could be re-balanced and added in, I see no reason why not as this is EXACTLY what Medivia and most OTs are currently doing, because stagnant 7.4 is just that, stagnant & thus boring. What people enjoyed was "HOW" it played, that's the fundamental difference that people are missing when they think 7.4, aiming runes- creating your runes, you'd never get a 1 to 1 authentic experience because everyone has premium nowdays, barely anyone had it back in the day, getting a 1 to 1 is an absolute pipe dream. Wiki alone changes things, people are older, they are more keen to not only understanding but taking in knowledge they receive, as well as searching for it- these are the real reasons why 7.4 wouldn't be the "SAME", but it's not why it couldn't still exist.
-That there WILL be people bitching about everything when they lose their stuff and their will to play as a result, there will be people that demand new servers because they're hunted on the initial one, there'll be people that'll complain about "incorrect 7. 4 mechanics".
Wouldn't matter because that's not who they'd be doing it for, there's bitching regardless of what people do, it's not really an argument for not doing something.
-venezuelan bot farms that would plague the servers and their economy and so on.
We'd have to hope that battleye does it's job, still not a reason not to do it.
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Thirdly, they'd have to release a multitude of updates to at least try to make their "revamped 7.4"
Most of the new content as I said, could be revamped for 7.4, there wouldn't even be much "change" required, and the investment would only even need to be necessary if the servers happened to be popular, so if they failed they'd have lost nothing more but the time investment on the initial revamp, they wouldn't need to add the whole of current Tibia, but instead in increments, see where things lead- This is how Runescape developers are currenctly doing it by the way, they're currently adding in new content all the time, and doing so based on player feedback, it's not like CIP couldn't do this..
I also personally feel the re-subs would most likely pay up as well as store purchases for outfits & mounts on these 7.4 servers as I bet you people would be advertising the crap out of it but this is just conjecture.. With what CIP makes it's really just a matter of- do they want to, not can they.
I think it gets a little be weird for them if people start & purchase things & then the whole thing ultimately becomes a huge failure, in that case what do you do with all the characters and TC invested? Would it be easy for a transfer? I doubt it, would a TC refund cover it? That's where the real issue is.
-But as you all can see it's not as easy as it seems
I disagree, I think you over thinking what would actually need to be done to make it a reality and are over complicating aspects that have simple solutions, you haven't convinced me at all.
-CipSoft has long lost their touch with the game, hence why I believe it won't ever happen.
This I agree with lol.
The biggest reason for not doing it is the team required & the initial time invested into creating it for a "maybe", but it's not like they haven't done this before & it's also not like they don't have the resource, check their income- they're making bank from Tibia.
I believe they can do it, runescape is a better example of the success possible than WoW is, as runescape in my opinion is a lot similar to Tibia than WoW.
Would they make money? I still think they would- The original post of "They wouldn't", is still a stupid fucking post.