Ah, Blizzard has been playing 4D Chess

We asked for no changes and they promised us a faithful 1.12 implementation. The crowd went wild.

However, we said that they couldn’t give us back that sense of newness and the unknown. Oh, not so fast, said Blizzard, and added some new temporary mechanics to throw a wrench into the launch and give us the unexpected.

Blizzard is streets ahead of the player base. Bravo! Well played!

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I’ll be too busy killing and looting boars, zebras and lions to worry about any of these temporary mechanics. I probably won’t even notice it.

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Can’t even argue with this, brb time to install auto chess

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now theres changes after all
both changes and nochanges lose!

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Idk man I’ve seen lots of phasing BS in the beta even by people not joining or leaving groups.

Also not having a guarantee you will see people on your own realm for all of phase one is kind of antithetical to an MMO.

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???

When you get layered it will only ever be with other people on yourserver.e

I’m not saying you will see people not on your realm I’m saying you might not ever see people that have been on your realm the whole time due to layering.

If there’s 10,000 players on your realm, you might not encounter a given player in your experience either.

Sorry.

I was rereading it and started wondering if that’s what you might of meant.

While with layering your chances are lowered I will say it is only temporary and regardless there are people on your server you will never meet layering or not.

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Or both win but lets not use deductive reasoning.

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Wait a minute here. My tin foil conspiracy detector is going crazy. You mean blizz used subversion to manipulate the masses and appeal to their heart stings. Then tactfully told them to go to hades in a handbag and we were merrily on our way. Happy to do so?
Ignore what i just said. It was the microwave beeping…

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Quite the opposite. I expected them to ruin Classic with changes. The unexpected would’ve been for Blizzard to do something right for once.

None of the things they added are new to me; they’re the kinds of reasons I left retail.

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They have it on league of legends now, you probably already have it installed, it’s called tft. It is missing some things from auto-chess, but it is a lot like it.

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Uh, I recall that “the crowd” pointed out that 1.12 was the least likely to represent vanilla properly, as it was watered down, nerfed, and most retail like of all the vanilla era.

Where was this crowd that “went wild”?

I don’t really care what version they use so long as they stick with one version for everything.

And I’d rather launch with 1.12 than 1.1.

Oh I was being sarcastic I hate dota and LoL, if I was going to play a “board game” type video game it would be phantasy Star online ep. 3: C.A.R.D. Revolution

No hate to those who enjoy those games though, more power to you.