What do I mean by this? Blizzard doesn’t want their “Main game” losing all if its ground to the “Secondary game”
As I’m writing this post, there are 143,890 players online on both Runescape 3(The main game) and Old School Runescape(The secondary game) spread out.
Old School Runescape has 109,094 currently online, and Runescape 3 has roughly 34k online.
Blizzard foolishly underestimated the success of Classic. Some of you believe that they feel threatened by this, causing them to neglect Classic and not listen to their community on how to make the game better. They don’t want classic to be come the main game for obvious reasons.
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too late, it has become the main game because it is a better game.
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Could be some truth to that. If only retail hadn’t sucked so hard for the last decade, we might not be here, but here we are.
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Might want to loosen up that tin foil hat a bit.
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Can’t stop reality. And the reality is that retail is boring and soulless.
However, I don’t think Blizzard is purposely neglecting Classic. Don’t assume conspiracy when incompetence/organizational rot can explain a given situation.
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I wonder how much it is going to cost to redeploy TBC compared to all the work done on Shadowlands. I wouldn’t be surprised if its the last retail expansion.
It’s probably way more profitable to continually re release Classic-MoP on a 10 year cycle…
Somebody get Kotick on the phone…
A business will say or do anything that they think gets them more profit.
They don’t care if that means their “main game” loses ground to the “secondary game”. They don’t feel threatened by the prospect of making more money.
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This 30 instance april fools joke is pretty much the equivelant of when Jagex released EoC a while back and lost half their playerbase and ignored everyone for like a year. THEN they hired new people, ran a poll to gauge the interest in the old game, and made a seperate dev team for it’s updates, and now the actual players decide if a massive change makes it into the game. It litterally saved their company by being modest and cleaning house.
Hopefully blizzard does the same. It’s just harder for this to happen because blizzard has a larger cushion saved up and other games to make up for the loss.
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lmao what… the 30 instance april is not even on the same planet as EoC…
The way OSRS handles bot busting is easily the best and most fun, just saying.
Then they should stop neglecting retail with stupid systems nobody, NOBODY asked for.
Almost unanimously, I’m pretty sure most people would rather be playing an iteration of their class from one of the expansions before WoD. I can see why fury wars would love the current version of their spec, though.
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i appreciate your good faith on blizzard but is just incompetence
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I always figured Classic was going to be the “secondary” Word of Warcraft experience. Blizzard’s intention was to put in the bare amount of time and effort in to Classic. Blizzard loves the #NoChanges crowd. That’s why I think the calls for Classic + are laughable and never going to happen.
Good theory mate but you’re looking too hard into it. Blizz just greedy and incompetent that’s all.
WoW Classic has become so popular because it was made and designed by people who had true love and passion for the game. The Blizzard that exists now and that is currently working on retail WoW is profit driven. The CEO cares only about shareholders’ stock prices and not about the game experience. They fire valuable employees to save money at the cost of player experience. Very telling
I don’t think not listening is the issue. I think the issue is the lack of a dialog. They reacted to the AV situation, bot situation and many others. They listened. They just didn’t ask us before implementing their solution.
What they need to do is say, “Hey guys. Here’s what we’re thinking about doing to fix this issue. What do you guys think?”
This is essentially what they did while they were developing Classic before launch. I don’t know why they stopped this approach. It was working quite well.
Also, other than things like the bot situation, there isn’t much to do in terms of making the game better. It’s not meant to be made better. It’s meant to be vanilla.
For some reason Blizzard decided you need to throw away everything from the current expansion and start fresh in the next one. They figured the best way to start fresh is to host massive PTRs and ignore 100% of the feedback of players and in some cases do the exact opposite of what they want because Blizzard knows better.
Well turns out they don’t know better.
Turns out when you fire all your engineers and replace them with marketing monkeys you suddenly start producing monkey feces as a product.
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I didn’t realize having half the active playerbase in NA/EU makes it the main game.
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In this case they are threatened because they lose profit by re-releasing old games. They cant charge for a game people already payed for. Classic was free. You only pay the sub fee like with retail. They want to keep people on the new games so they can sell them and make more money.
What are the obvious reasons?
If Classic has become the larger playerbase, then they can learn much from that, and capitalize on it. Perhaps, that will lead to Shadowlands (or a future expansion being the Classic+ that some have been talking about).