It has everything to do with the server and client code.
The modern WOW codebase heavily relies on sharding, which wasn’t even a thing during vanilla.
And don’t doubt it: sharding was just another COST CUTTING measure. Every single decision that Activision’s made regarding WOW for the past several years has been about maximizing profits at the expense of the customer experience.
Dude, you know there is a 6 phase rollout plan? It’s coming, in the course of time consistent with when it originally arrived in Vanilla. Layering (which I hated too, but understood) is gone on most servers. It was a compromise to the changed nature of the game, the industry, and the internet. A temporary one.
But anyway, I’m loving Classic. If you don’t, that’s fine. But using necessary compromises as a reason for more change is … well, how many times does this strawman slippery slide have to be debunked on these forums before people stop bringing it up?
Without layering we would have needed MANY more servers at launch, a lot of the post launch servers are starting to feel their lower populations already, how would it work with even more? Do you WANT to be on a server with 10 people on it?
I just want to harp on the level of bullcrap that Activision is pumping into consumers’ faces.
DO NOT BUY THE BS SECURITY ARGUMENT.
There is no such thing as secure code. There’s only code in which vulnerabilities haven’t been found yet.
The modern WOW codebase doesn’t have fewer exploits than the 2006 code had. The modern WOW codebase just has DIFFERENT exploits that are still being found (sharding exploits, for example).
There’s no such thing as secure code. All code requires constant maintenance.
Bottom line is that consumers got duped. Classic was a phony, crappy product.
Doors that way —>
You clearly didn’t play in vanilla… Fresh servers would open every few months and youd always have a ton of people start on the new servers for a fresh start for the race to 60, server firsts etc. There was definitely demand back then so Id imagine thatd be true today as well
I’m not sure why so many responders criticize the idea of having choices. The tryhards do not need the classic adventurers. The classic adventurers do not need the tryhards. Pservers have offered low populations good times (I think) to both adventurers and to tryhards. So why not have Blizzard stabilize the classic adventurer for those who want to play all the content, all the classes, all the professions? - - let the tryhards move on as they wish to anyway.
I mean, I’d be all for them to make a non-blizzlike server for fun.
Youre a fool
No, you’re a fool to accept Blizzcon nonsense as the truth.
No, I’m berating him for shouting other people down that may want TBC or WOTLK versions of Classic available. He wants to keep Classic in Vanilla and seems to think this is a unanimous sentiment.
I mean, what he’s doing is selfish. What he was saying was essentially “haha I got what I want, now let’s make sure you don’t”.
Okay, the whole “nochange” thing. . . I said my piece. But there is one argument I want explained to me. Why do we keep saying it’ll split the community? Won’t that happen anyway eventually? Won’t any stagnant game die eventually?
<-- is more interested in TBC then classic. Fight me.
I’m more interested in a NEW next generation MMO than any of this lazy re-release crap.
WOW is done. It’s over. It’s played out. Time to step up and move on.
Since most people have a hard on for no changes except when it comes to restarting servers,I’m gonna feed you your same crap…#nochanges
It depends on the 10 people. If it were the right 10 people that would probably be all I need to do everything I want in the game. Well, maybe 20
then step up and move on. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.
Blizzard doesn’t care, nor should, about your lust for “fresh” realms. They would never consider opening more of these unless they were all full. You already got your “fresh” realms when these opened. You don’t need them again if these are still running. This isn’t some private server with a garbage staff that’s going to release more realms for no good reason (Light’s Hope).
We should get realms for new expansions, that is obvious. So you got 1 right. Ideally we’ll have 1 set for classic, 1 for crusade, 1 for wrath. Nothing else is needed. I doubt anyone wants Cataclysm back (I chuckle at that thought). That was literally when most players quit retail.
I personally feel that creating more nostalgia servers will end up killing WoW.
Eventually everyone will be divided and it will be the equivalent to having too many servers on retail WoW equipped with paid server transfers.
That is an awful idea, Blizz is not your corrupt private server looking to get more donations.
Wiping people progress and forcing them to either fragment or restart would be shooting themselves in the foot.
TBC would also be just delaying the problem while at the same time, creating many new problems.
Bring on classic+, then maybe tbc as a side addition, not as a pretended “progress”.