It’s good because it’s a good game.
Exploring.
Survival.
No flying,
It was a slow game which made you feel immersed.
For Classic WOW Plus just add arena, and add more mechanics for raid boss fights.
And you got yourself the perfect game.
Classic WoW had flying; it just had pre-set, automatic flight paths.
This is what anti-flying people get wrong. Exploring the world the first few times can be immersive. But no one’s going to remain enthralled by repeating the same mundane travel route over and over. Approaching Blackrock Mountain for the first time is immersive and impactful. Approaching it the 10th time is not. That’s why flying makes sense as a delayed max-level reward and why removing flying won’t create the immersive, explorative experience the anti-flying people envision.
In any case calling Classic WoW a “perfect game” even with your additions is dubious. There were significant oversights throughout the whole game particularly in the area of class design and quite a lot of areas in the open world experience that feel half-baked.
Taxi is not like flying, you still need to uncover flight paths. Sure taxi gets you from point a to b but it doesn’t let you go wherever you want.
Picking a different faction, class or talent tree will reinstate that immersion. There’s a reason why private servers only obsessed over vanilla and not other expansions. It’s the superior wow that has unlimited potential.
Your problem is class design? Sure let’s fix that too in plus I’m open for changes in plus like harder mechanics.
And you still need to unlock flying.
There’s a reason why other MMOs that can add flying do tend to add it, namely FF14. It provides a meaningful reward for progress and it can revitalise someone’s interest in going out in the world. If you make it harder and longer to travel to places people just won’t do it so often.
There are, in fact, plenty of private servers for later expansions. There are popular private servers for Legion. In any case I’m pretty sure 3.3.5 is still the patch of choice for many private servers.
It sounds like you just want BC without flying.
Sir, you don’t need to highlight my words, I know to which you’re responding.
Oh yes, nothing like mundane achievements for flying. I’m find with taxi because while handy it’s not flexible like retail flying where you can go literally anywhere. It kills exploration and immersion.
Yes, there are a few servers for tbc and wotlk but they were never popular like classic and that’s a fact. Vanilla was always more popular on private.
Just accept that tons of people prefer vanilla for simper times. Not everyone likes the polished retail version that lacks soul.
No, it doesn’t, because you unlock flying after exploring all the content and waiting for a long time. I’m not interested in repeating this point to you if you continue to choose to ignore it.
Yes every franchise has die-hard purists that insist the original version was the best.
Besides, what I’m seeing on the server listing sites is WotLK servers dominating the rankings. Which makes sense as WotLK was also the WoW expansion with the highest subscription count.
This has always been a feel-good phrase that means nothing.
I made a thread last year on the old forums about why anybody would want to play Classic. I could not wrap my head around the plethora of inconveniences that I remembered from back in the day, and why anybody would want to go back to that. I get it now, Classic players. YOU were right.
It’s not about making the game needlessly inconvenient. It’s immersion. It’s the fantasy. My rogue wasn’t just applying a buff. My rogue was learning how to make a poison, gather the materials, brew it, and put it on his daggers. Hunters were buying arrows from a local town vendor, because they ran out and they need to prepare for the adventures ahead.
Yes, there are still some inconveniences, but the sheer amount of fantasy associated to each aspect of the game makes those inconveniences easy to overlook.
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The only fantasy here is you believing any of those inconveniences make the game better.