11/14/2018 04:37 PMPosted by Veskr11/14/2018 10:11 AMPosted by SavaxI love how the naysayers act like Vanilla players were somehow mindless morons who couldn't use email, never used a computer later than a Commodore 64, couldn't use search engines and never had played MMORPGs before.
"We didn't know what we were doing back then!"
Complete BS. Most of us had played much more difficult games like Asherons Call, Dark Age of Camelot, EverQuest, etc.
Online gaming or RPGs weren't new to the vast majority of early Vanilla players. Quit acting like Vanilla players were clueless idiots. It's ridiculous.
Good post man.
Blizzard's games were far more intricate and nuanced in the past. Activision ruined all of them to appeal to a larger casual audience, by dramatically simplifying the games for the lowest common denominator. (the OP)
And then those same uninformed people who do not, nay, could not even play the game are the first to tell you how easy Classic will be, and how toxic the community is. And you should expect nothing less from a game whose target audience is the most casual passer by.
Vanilla was the easy mode MMO by design at the time, the reason why it was so popular was because they designed it to be incredibly simple and easy so everyone could play it.
Sure if you want to say it's harder than retail in some areas fine, but you're comparing taco bell mild to medium hot sauce, when you compare them to a real hot sauce they both taste the same and aren't spicy at all. That's how vanilla's difficulty compares to retail.