You GOT your game. You GOT to play “Classic” the way YOU wanted it to be. And you still can!
WHY IS IT BAD THAT WE GET TO PLAY WRATH THE WAY WE WANT TO PLAY IT? THE WAY IT WAS INTENDED? WITH A SYSTEM MEANT TO BE THERE FROM LAUNCH?
Why is it okay that YOU get to get the game you want, but it’s NOT ENOUGH for you? Why is it not okay for us to ALSO get to play OUR Classic game?
Yes, I am very upset at this. Yes, I am malding, because I have literally been waiting a decade to play this game again that got me into WoW, a game that helped me through so much garbage with my family, running countless random dungeons with people, meeting people getting to KNOW people. Some of the people I have known the LONGEST in my life were people I met and talked to through the random dungeon finder in Wrath. People who helped me to get through some of the hardest situations in my life. I wish I could swear right now because god this conversation makes me so, so upset.
I hate that I’m being told by people on the forums who don’t care and wouldn’t use it anyways and would absolutely rather group with their guilds and besties anyways that I am wrong for wanting to play Classic the way I did back in 2010. I’m aware that for the first year or so of Wrath that it didn’t exist, and I’m aware that later social norms pushed the RDF from being a helpful tool for alts to being a lobby simulator for people who didn’t want to talk.
Nothing is stopping you from talking during RDF runs. You can still be social! The first step to being social is for you to step up and talk first! Stop making excuses. Stop saying RDF’s existence would stop you from letting you be social. Stop saying that RDF existing would take you away from guild groups because you want the bonus rewards.
You are making excuses for wanting to take the easiest path, and many of you (people who are against RDF) want its exclusion to continue gatekeeping Classic and not letting people play it the way that they want to. Classic doesn’t exist for nostalgia, it exists EXCLUSIVELY for people who can’t compete anywhere else to wave their junk around as if it matters and stop other people from playing the game.
And Blizzard doesn’t care because they know that they’re gonna make bank off of it anyways. In 6 months when a vast majority of the population stops playing because they hit 80, they did the first tier of raids, and decide “I’ve had enough, I’m gonna play something else” people are going to move to the largest server they can because the remaining number of people playing isn’t enough to feed every server because no one wants to spread the wealth around. Classic WoW andies are all the same – You’re locusts. You chew through all of the content, gatekeep it away from other people, and gloat about how great the “community” is.
You’ve got my money Blizz. You did it. I bought into the nostalgia, thinking I’d get to play the game I loved back in the day, even if the circumstances are different now. I wanted to try out other classes, and play all of them to get different experiences in heroics. But, why would I level and gear alts to play a waiting simulator where I have to spam in chat hoping to find literally anyone to play with because I’m not able to play at the peak times. I hope that in time you can find a way to fix all the server issues so everyone can play on one or two servers and you can save yourselves some money in the long term.