"Classic" excitement explained from an older gamer's perspective

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Hopefully classic is the cure/ best thing that can happen to retail. It will get a large chunk of the player base back into their little sandbox. They can enjoy “meaningful” upgrades, i.e. running MC every week until the end of time again, diverse talent trees, i.e. half the specs not existing, and everything else classic will bring from 2004.

There is too much information now. Despite that too many people can’t handle a 5 button rotation. They can’t balance around the top, who are pushing as hard as they are, and still make things viable for people that struggle to kill normal bosses. Yet somehow they think dmg meters, a version of IO, or logs won’t exist and that people will be eager to carry them again from UBRS to AQ.

The majority of streamers that are so “excited” to play classic have trashed it in the past. But they see it for what it is, a cash opportunity. Suddenly classic is the best thing ever. Eventually they will run out of content and nostalgia. Unless you really think people are going to watch 80 man STV Arena raids forever…

Add that into the private communities and the elitism that will exist as it did then and we will see how long regular players enjoying getting two shot by streamers and their premades/ loot funnel guilds before they realize that spending 12 hours a day playing to compete is not worth it.

Community? We could have that now. But half the same players claiming to want it back, are the same players that LFG everything. Its a by product of the internet. Vanilla existed before the internet as we know it now, before outrage culture and the anonymity that the internet provides. The only community you will find is people going out of their way to force it into happening.

Hopefully it can lead to meaningful improvements in retail. It won’t. As they’ve said, if its successful they will just release BC, Wrath, or MoP servers. That way they no longer have to spend anything on development and they can laugh while people actually pay for an xpac thats 10-15 years old. It worked for Disney and their “new” 2018-2019 move lineup…

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Its this, desk top computer gaming was the popular thing to do in 2005-2010 , now its not.
vanilla / bc / wrath were pretty much “the” game for 5 or 7 years.

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Why Alliance? Aren’t there more PvPers on the Horde?

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That’s exactly why we are rolling alliance. Horde clearly have the better PvP racials in classic and is going to be over crowded and we don’t want to sit around in queue all day. We will be running full premades anyway so its not like randoms will be holding us back.

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Oh.

Well, I hope Blizzard improves their shard manager. Otherwise, your raids will mostly be farming solo players like in BFA.

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Exactly, and reading news like the one in the link below just add more “reason” for them to suddenly start to love some games more than others:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90352376/want-to-make-50000-an-hour-become-a-video-game-live-streamer

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As an OG wow addict, I second this

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lol you may want to read up on that.

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I was under the impression we were doing away w/ shards for Classic and going back to no zoning, no xrealm, no shards, etc. Whoever is online is at that physical location in the world as long as they share the same server.

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For server stability and gameplay reasons, they’ll be using a modified version of sharding called “layering.”