Blizzard announced "Classic" World of Warcraft

[DragoFireheart]

it's pretty obvious they'll go through the expansions if enough people play on them.

And which expansion will they stop at?

The only logical one is Wrath of the Lich King. But should they go through expansions? Why not just keep it classic? Flying mounts is arguably one of the reasons WoW declined due to killing world PVP.

 

[Lacrymas]

They won't stop at any expansion. They'll go through the expansions until they hit retail, if it ever hits retail, depending on how frequently they'll move onto the next expansion. They won't "keep it classic" because people will farm Naxx for 6 months and leave, making the realms ghost towns and the whole effort practically wasted. The question is not "will they move on to the next expansion" (they will if there are enough people to justify it), it's "will they open new classic realms when the old ones move on".

 

[DragoFireheart]

They won't stop at any expansion. They'll go through the expansions until they hit retail, if it ever hits retail, depending on how frequently they'll move onto the next expansion. They won't "keep it classic" because people will farm Naxx for 6 months and leave, making the realms ghost towns and the whole effort practically wasted. The question is not "will they move on to the next expansion" (they will if there are enough people to justify it), it's "will they open new classic realms when the old ones move on".

Why not make more "classic" raids?

Instead of going to Burning Crusade... why not make whole new raids within the classic servers? More 40 mans with insanity.

Blizz already introduced weird time travel shit in the story. Make the classic servers a alternate time line.

 

[Lacrymas]

They'll have to make an entire new team and it's a pipe dream, especially since they already have content they can release. And a theme park MMO like WoW has to move on with the levels, otherwise it becomes exceedingly difficult for new people to join in, or gear up alts. And even hardcore vanilla players stop playing a few months after Naxx releases and hop onto the next private server de jour. Along with other problems, like vanilla not having any incentive to log in besides raiding at one point. Vanilla has too many dubious design choices and it needs to move on to greener pastures, namely TBC. So, yeah, I'm 99.99999999999999% certain they'll move on with the expansions if the player base justifies it.

 

[Lyric Suite]

One server for each expansion. Only solution. Won't be implemented though.

 

[hivemind]

Two servers for each expansions

One RP and one PVP

 

[hivemind]

srsly the game is good but active RP servers are like the MAIN lure of blizz classic compared to just playing on some of the current private server ones

 

[Lyric Suite]

After all the private servers i went through, i can't even imagine what's it like to play the game without getting ganged by 60s with tier 2 gear as a low level scrub anymore.

 

[Fedora Master]

srsly the game is good but active RP servers are like the MAIN lure of blizz classic compared to just playing on some of the current private server ones

RP in a game like WoW amounts to diaper-shitting fetish sex ERP in Goldshire.

 

[hivemind]

RP in a game like WoW amounts to diaper-shitting fetish sex ERP in Goldshire

kys clueless retard

 

[Makabb]

 

[Makabb]

Thankfully, they came to their senses..

They have to because current WoW is probably at an all times low subscription.

Watch Classic overtaking current live wow in number of people playing it, and if new content will arrive for classic, it will kill the other WoW.

In the end the only one that killed WoW will be Blizzard, with a WoW version from 15 years ago, poetic.

 

[Lacrymas]

Classic will be an interesting experiment if nothing else. I really don't know what to expect in terms of its popularity.

 

[Makabb]

Classic will be an interesting experiment if nothing else. I really don't know what to expect in terms of its popularity.

I like that they also said they won't close the servers, the early WoW to me feels like an enhanced version of Diablo 2, with talents and skills ripped out of d2, WoW just had a lot more to do than d2.

It's funny how back at the time i considered WoW rip off of Diablo 2 and called Blizzard lazy for doing it....... while now I'm praising that they are bringing the old gameplay lol

 

[Makabb]

Vanilla WoW > all other WoWs.

This man knows his WoWs

 

[hivemind]

cope

burning crusade was peak of the game

vanilla raids get mogged by bc ones as does pvp and overall lategame content

 

[Revenant]

TBC had flying mounts, blood elves in the horde and welfare tokens by the time of the Isle of Quel'Danas, though.

 

[hivemind]

TBC had flying mounts

the impact of them wasn't that bad imo since they were outland only

blood elves in the horde

and that's a good thing

welfare tokens by the time of the Isle of Quel'Danas

I guess that's a point, but imo both sunwell and the pvp on the island itself make up for welfare epics

 

[Lacrymas]

Who cares about welfare epics when most guilds couldn't even kill Vashj (or get to higher than 1600 rating) before WotLK came around. Not to mention that I think they weren't that many, you couldn't fill up all your slots with epic gear from tokens, at least as far as I remember. There's also the epic pvp gear you could get with honor when the second season rolled around, but that was extremely tedious. It also depends on what you mean by welfare. Are the Cenarion Hold items in vanilla welfare? If so, why? Why not?

Flying was a bad idea in general, not because of lack of world pvp, but because it made the map trivial. I don't care either way, however, strutting around the map is not what you do 90% of the time. Isle of Quel'Danas began the obsession with dailies that you couldn't brute force your way through (with gold) and being forced to log every day is not my idea of good design, it's non-elegant. I don't actually remember what was the point of doing those dailies.

 

[Revenant]

strutting around the map is not what you do 90% of the time.

And that is the precise reason why World of Warcraft is not an MMO and also shit

 

[Lacrymas]

Oh, it is indeed shit. It's more like daycare with activities than anything else.

 

[Revenant]

Yet you watch this thread like your life depended on it. Admit it, you're going to play WoW Classic on day one

 

[Lacrymas]

No, I'm not. I had enough of vanilla on Kronos.

 

[hivemind]

I don't actually remember what was the point of doing those dailies.

I usually didnt bother doing them and just gassed other people who were trying to do them

it felt good

killing the poor trying to earn a living wage

best time of my life

 

[hivemind]

I had enough of vanilla on Kronos.

Kronos.