Can Classic WoW Be Faithfully Recreated With The Meta-Knowledge and Community We Have Now?

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To me, it’s all going to be new again.

I don’t have a perfect memory of those days, not at all. And the fact that the quests have changed, the landscapes have changed the character look has changed just adds to that.

For all intents and purposes it’ll be a new game.

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OP, Yes. It’s possible. It has already been done actually.

While you make a valid, cogent point, how would you account for the success of Nostalrius?

Nostalrius was a vibrant, Vanilla-like community. It was such a success that Blizzard flew the Nostalrius team out to their HQ to personally meet with them.

Nostalrius would not have ever existed, based on your argument. Buy it did. Why?

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op. i think your post is a well constructed summary of the past, along side the strongest arguments against the classic project. and in my opinion entertaining with good points.

for most everyone going back in to this grand experiment, there will be different starting points both in the knowledge of game mechanics, and the social interaction patterns for the players themselves. all ends of the spectrum will be represented.

seeing that my earliest screenshots of WoW, go back to fall of 2005, and having played PServers since Feenix, i am strongly interested in seeing what the game IS. i want to know if the reboot matches my early memory imprint, and how different it truly is from the PServer remakes. i want to see it all and i will really have a lot of fun finding similarities and differences!

i won’t forget the great feeling i had on Feenix, and the early world chats with others when running around Westfall, and stating “i can’t believe that we all get to do this again … this is great!!”. many shared my excitement, then. and it could be like that for many others in Classic.

think about this grand experiment of our time on earth, and what if our God decided to reboot our existence back to a time when you were five or six. but you retained all memory. the shock would be overwhelming for you. but as you ultimately continued on in life and found all of the others that were just like you, wouldn’t the experience of doing it over again be potentially … amazing?

what ever this WoW Classic thing becomes for each of us individually, i definitely want to see it and experience my part.

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It will be nice to play again, but no you can’t really go back. It will be with new friends, new players, and will forge a new experience.

I’ve actually been waiting on this because with Retail it’s pretty much pointless to try and find a new community, there really isn’t much need for one unless you are raiding.

With Classic though it’s completely new, everyone in the same boat, and a chance to essentially start all over. Unlike a private server it won’t be going anywhere so it will be worth the effort.

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I’ll never be able to experience Castlevania or Ninja Gaiden for the first time like I did back in the NES days but I still enjoy the snot out of them today.

I love me some arcade machines and build my own for my game room, too. Some original refurbs, as well. I still love them and get enjoyment out of them.

You don’t need to recreate the culture of a moment in time to enjoy the offerings from that era.

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Dude. I just wanted to put a <3 as a reply, but I need 10 characters… so…

<3

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Thanks! Happy gaming!

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They totally can. Introduce horizontal progression past Naxx. New boss fights in vanilla fashion. True new world first kills accomplished the vanilla way.

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Since we can’t go foward with the story, I would like to instead look at the past and if the community is ok with it, release raids or dungeons like The battle for mount Hyjal.

Or since they’re no longer limited by technology, retune some boss fights with all the content they intended to release but couldn’t.

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I just want to play a faithful version of the old World of Warcraft, where the journey to max level matters and I can get the original dungeon experience back. It seems that I’m getting exactly what I want.

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It’s strange that there are people in the world that think they know what others want, and probably have never researched the topic at all. People like you must assume you’re own opinion is right, and tell people that you know what they really mean. I don’t understand that.

I wasn’t one of the hundreds of thousands of people that petitioned Blizzard to remake Vanilla, which is actually what was desired. I was shocked when Blizzard announced the making of Classic, and I am confident that Blizzard has solid business reasons for Classic as well.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to have Classic as they make it. (I really just wanted old Alterac Valley and Black Rock Mountain.)

TL;DR - Don’t assume you have any idea what people want.

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Good response. I want to buy you some beer

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Thank you, I put way more thought into it than the OP deserves. He’s probably in the category of “If I need to explain, you will never understand, but If you understand, then I wouldn’t need to explain”.

“Beer is for anytime.” - Slowbop

Cheers. :smiley:

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No, we know everything to the T almost have WAY better PC’s and internet, kinda, so raid’s wont be at 10 -15 FPS.

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Was I right?

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I think I actually disagree… I think you can reinvent a game that has the same philosophy that would provide a similar feeling.

A game is fundamentally different when you have 15 years worth of meta-gaming.

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holy necropost batman. So many threads coming back to life so early in September and October, this is insane.

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Sure it is! I’ve ran numerous Group Content with the same handful of folks I’ve met throughout my leveling journey.

Only with the “hardcore” community which do not represent the actual community.

No.

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It actually could be re-created, but it would require extensive changes to the game. I mean, major, major changes.