Blizzard announced "Classic" World of Warcraft

[Don Peste]

How To Prepare/What To Expect From World of Warcraft: Classic

 

[Cyberarmy]

I did licked that manual a bit back then.
A little bit

 

[Bester]

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/22548005

What to Expect
From the beginning of this project, the team’s mission has been to be as faithful as possible to World of Warcraft as it existed back in 2005 and 2006, before Cataclysm altered the world as we knew it—and we wanted to make sure the demo we built for the show was a clear reflection of that. The focus of the demo is on outdoor questing, and we’ve selected two iconic zones that most original WoW players will no doubt be familiar with—Barrens for the Horde and Westfall for the Alliance—so you can step back in time and experience these zones as they were originally designed. You’ll be able to search for Mankrik’s wife, curse at Ornery Plainstriders for not having beaks, and make a group to kill Defias Pillagers in Moonbrook. You might even get to improvise a new rotation against the Harvest Golems in Farmer Saldean’s farm, since in this era, mechanical creatures may be immune to some of your abilities. We brought all of that back, and we’re as excited about it as you are.

Because it’s a demo, there’ll will be some limitations on the content: the Deadmines and Wailing Caverns dungeons won’t be available, the only PvP will be dueling, and you won’t be able to visit zones other than Westfall and the Barrens. We also typically limit the time our BlizzCon attendees can play a demo, and that will be the case for BlizzCon WoW Classic Demo players at home. In order to maximize the number of people who can try out the demo, initially you’ll be logged off after playing for a certain amount of time to give somebody else a turn. We haven’t determined exactly how long this time limit will be yet, but we’re also planning some flexibility, so if we’re able to relax the restriction and still give everyone who wants to play a great experience, then we’ll do that. If you do find your session has ended before you’ve done everything you wanted to, don’t worry—your character will be there when you get back in for your next session, and all your progress will be saved.

You’ll start the demo at level 15. While we know that starting at level 1 holds a lot of nostalgia, you’re also limited in what you can do when you’re first starting out. Given the time constraints of a BlizzCon demo, we wanted to give players some freedom to explore and experiment with core systems like talents or professions, which are unavailable at level 1. We also wanted you to be able to get a good sense of the original class played. At Level 15, warriors have Defensive Stance, priests have Psychic Scream, hunters have their pet, and so on—so at this level you really start to feel like your class has some of the key tools that make the class distinct. Additionally, all characters will be capped at Level 19. But you can create multiple characters, so you can try out as many different classes and races as you’d like!

What’s “New”
As we mentioned in our original Dev Watercooler blog we posted in June, we’re building WoW Classic on the foundation of our modern code base. That means you’ll be able to download the demo through the Blizzard Battle.net desktop app and use Battle.net chat integration in-game to ask your friend to come check out the Barrens with you. You’ll also find there’s improved support for widescreen monitors—so instead of the world looking stretched and distorted in widescreen, it’ll look like it did on your old 4:3 monitor. Only bigger!

All of the current game’s tools that help ensure World of Warcraft is a welcoming and fair environment, such as right-click player reporting, will also be in the BlizzCon WoW Classic Demo. Cheats, bots, and other exploitive behavior will also not be allowed, and the modern engine no longer permits some behaviors that could be used to get out of bounds. Support for 32-bit clients has also been removed. One of our core values is “Play nice; play fair,” and we want to do everything we can to ensure a few bad apples don’t ruin the experience for others.

You’ll also find that post-launch accessibility options such as colorblind mode are in the demo—though as we were working on it, we realized some words and images used in the current Accessibility panel come from the modern game. So we replaced the modern icons with some classic icons, and removed the term “Heirloom” since it doesn’t appear anywhere else in WoW Classic. It’s important to us that in situations like this we blend the old and the new in such a way that it still looks and feels like the game you remember.

See You in November!
We’re really excited about the BlizzCon WoW Classic Demo, and hope you are too! But we definitely don’t want to send the message that we’re done, because we’re not. There’s still lots of work left do, and the BlizzCon demo is an important step in the process of bringing the original WoW back to life as authentically as we can. This is a great chance for you to see the direction we’re heading and give us some early feedback, so be sure to leave your thoughts in the Classic section of the WoW forums.

Thanks for playing, and we’ll see you in Azeroth!

TLDR new info on Classic Demo:
- levels 15-19 available, no WSG, but dueling is allowed at least
- Barrens for the horde, Westfall for the alliance, but no dungeons
- we'll have 1-2 hours to play, then we'll get booted, because too many people. Ridiculous.

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

You’ll be able to search for Mankrik’s wife, curse at Ornery Plainstriders for not having beaks, and make a group to kill Defias Pillagers in Moonbrook. You might even get to improvise a new rotation against the Harvest Golems in Farmer Saldean’s farm, since in this era, mechanical creatures may be immune to some of your abilities. We brought all of that back, and we’re as excited about it as you are.

LOOOOOOL it sounds like they're mocking the classic community (deservedly). If ur idea of fun is autoattacking birds for hours trying to get quest items loollololll

 

[Makabb]

ITZ happening !

 

[Makabb]

 

[Edija]

Boy, have MMOs fallen so low that the reiteration of a fourteen year old game is the next best thing coming? Sad!

 

[Makabb]

Boy, have MMOs fallen so low that the reiteration of a fourteen year old game is the next best thing coming? Sad!

Not only mmos but games in general, the first version of WoW apart from being a typical grindy mmo, has plenty of RPG mechanics that dictate the combat, and lore is not full retarded like it became later on.

 

[Bester]

How do I get it? I don't have it in blizzard launcher.

 

[Makabb]

How do I get it? I don't have it in blizzard launcher.

It's not out yet, they got it from the demo

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

Boy, have MMOs fallen so low that the reiteration of a fourteen year old game is the next best thing coming? Sad!

No, MMOs are better than ever old boomers are just nostalgic and yearn for childhood. Same reason people get mad at new RPGs for not being carbon copies of PS:T or fallout 1

 

[Makabb]

no

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

no

BOOMER IDENTIFIED

 

[Makabb]

no

 

[Dawkinsfan69]

 

[Makabb]

Seems its faithfull to original, cautiously optimistic

 

[Bester]

Seems its faithfull to original

What's with the mount, though? Or what is? I never played alliance, so I don't recognize this.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Seems its faithfull to original

What's with the mount, though? Or what is? I never played alliance, so I don't recognize this.

Looks like a gnomish mechanostrider.

 

[Edija]

This is obviously some private server fuckery, he has 1hp and a mount at lvl 15, damage is 1337 ect.

 

[Sentinel]

This is obviously some private server fuckery, he has 1hp and a mount at lvl 15, damage is 1337 ect.

Notice the Battle.net icon on the left of the screen. He's not connected to Blizzard's servers, that might explain the 1/1 hp.

 

[Wilian]

This is obviously some private server fuckery, he has 1hp and a mount at lvl 15, damage is 1337 ect.

No. This is obviously a local sandbox server put up to explore the client. How the user got it remains unknown. They recently released at least the database in Bnet so the client is probably somehow attainable too if you know how. Or its someone internal leaking out. Many of the screenshots p. Much confirm it to be the real deal as its mix of old and new tech with various settings for classic experience iterated while others such as new shadow/water and lighting system being in as togglable options.

 

[taxalot]

One thing I do keep wondering is their intent for the future : is this server going to remain in a fixed state, which will make it boring, or are they intent on expanding it which would kind of ruin the entire point of the thing ?

It is a mystery.

 

[Wilian]

Well there is Classic panel in Blizzcon so we will find out soon enough

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Lol dead after 6 months game

In PS community the only thing keeping classic PS alive is the promise of "new fresh better server"

Blizzard might as well do a Season like Diablo or PoE to keep interest high because after people steamroll the old content some guy have 200 pages step by step guide off, whats left?

 

[Bester]

So a lot of people are happy about this screenshot:

And they're just stupid. Old servers used to hold 4k players on two entire continents. Just two areas though can only support around 300 people. Which means 6k people online is the maximum you'll get during blizzcon, and it's horrible.