lol
…only in the wow forums would such a silly oxymoron apply.
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hahahah its ok if you don’t understand it
I want to throw my voice in favor of RDF. I joined WoW in 3.3 and it’s been a big part of my Wrath gameplay, and it didn’t in any way detriment it. I’ve played vanilla classic and it was fun to form groups manually there, but I feel it was a part of the experience there, much more so than in Wrath. Wrath for me is more about playing casually, grinding emblems, and leveling alts, trying specs out etc etc.
The lack of RDF isn’t going to make me experience the game in a richer way, it’s just going to make me experience less game. I feel like Wrath dungeons were always designed to have RDF in it, they just didn’t have time to put it in until 3.3.
Also, honestly seeing how modern community minimaxes everything, I dread interacting with it manually.
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Nope. It’s Wrath Classic. The Classic train is still goin’!
Wrath was over a decade ago.
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Yes WRATH classic, not Classic, World of warcraft classic I believe has its own server
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You literally wouldn’t have any way of knowing, considering it’s all you’ve ever known.
Take the opportunity to see it in a different light.
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Okay? So wtf is your point?
Classic is the umbrella term for Vanilla Classic, TBC Classic and Wrath Classic. RDF is antithetical to the entire point of Classic. We on the same page?
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I’m fully in the no-rdf camp but I have empathy for players who never experienced the game before RDF. There’s no way he could have ever experienced the benefits of its absence and what it was like before it existed. And, RDF fundamentally changed the game into something different. Like giving drugs to addicts, it was a major one-way shift. If I didn’t have the experience prior to it, it would be hard for me to understand why I dislike RDF also. It’s hard to quantify just how good WoW was before they went down these ‘convenience’ paths.
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No because Wrath the original had it in therefor to keep in with the original feeling its antithetical to exclude it, and for that matter people to argue to exclude it.
This is an asinine point. Do they have to get the whole game voice acted so players who have trouble reading can play?
They have plenty of accessibility features.
Welp, despite you bringing this obviously flawed (as you know) argument to the table, it’s not coming! See you in Wrath Classic!
I’m okay with Blizzard taking a firm position and making a game that isn’t appreciated by everyone. Some people won’t like what they release and these days there are great alternatives.
What they’ve released currently is great and no changes are needed.
I played though classic WoW, I know.
I will explain the “Goodness” on my realm.
Peak time there is maybe three to four groups listed, all with one person in them, those same three or four people are still there 30 minutes later, If I list myself as a healer I get invited to a group with no notification and as what happened yesterday not even a response to my inquiry, then 5 minutes later after I made it all the way to the dungeon the group leader left to join a pug that was advertised locally. I literally do not want to list myself as a healer because I can do without the rubbish.
So lets go to the alternative, people spamming for 15 to 20 minutes at a time the same group over and over some using caps to try and get thru, there is no older content groups for those levelling, this is actually a bad thing, it’s where all the new people are.
I have quite literally done 2 dungeons with others and guess how much talking was done after “Summons please” yes you guessed zero.
Guilds knowing its hard offer to “run you” which is far more detrimental to the game than not.
I am sure to you people on large realms the finder is great and filled with groups low/high whatever and your LFG chat is not also filled with gold sellers and racist chat etc, but for the rest of us remove of that channel and a real LFD tool would be a godsend.
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LOL I doubt it
unless of course we get LFD
I played very little original TBC, and only started WoW in earnest, albeit casually, during ICC.
Wow never stuck for me in all those years, despite playing to max in every expansion. It was because I’d queue and quest my way to max without building any relationships, because RDF doesn’t foster relationships. I’d get to max and feel the game was over, because I didn’t end up with a guild that did anything more than collect members like Pokémon.
It wasn’t until Classic that I
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Made lasting relationships with random people in game through PUGs — a totally foreign concept to me at the time. I was super apprehensive about sharing and was hesitant to use my real name for like a full month of playing with the same group every day.
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Played the game seriously at max level. Wow has become an actual mainstay game for me, finally, after over a decade of playing casually.
The sole difference is the lack of “creature comforts”, as you put it, that made me more inclined to follow up on sparks of camaraderie, and for others to do the same.
I didn’t know WoW before RDF was first introduced, but now I know it without and it’s very obvious which is better for integrating casuals into the actual meat and potatoes of the game. If Classic had RDF, I’d have played it for a month or two, then quit at max, like I’d done with every previous expansion.
RDF is only good for letting casuals tour the content without actually sinking their teeth into it.
Okay then I won’t see you, bye
How far you get?
btw it works pretty much like RDF in retail if you are doing M+, the only difference you can like the dungeon you want and be posted on a list and someone that’s willing to take you will pick you.
This means if you can open the RDF and click que means you should be able to use the current LFG system as it requires only a few more clicks.
Also if you can move it means you can run to a dungeon so your point is pretty pointless.
I could see this being an issue if you can’t click on something (all though lvling would suck) but then that would require much more accessibility features then RDF
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You basically just expressed exactly why I don’t want RDF. Your experience exactly. The original community of the game was amazing. All this forum noise was always here but in-game it was vibrant and your experience was the common experience for me.
I’m totally with you; I would LOVE for them to fork this game at ICC but leave out RDF and then take the game down a path without the conveniences. Keep the community alive like it was.
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