Did You Know About The No Changes?

[Holymirax-ashkandi]

As a huge fan of the older MMOs I’m hoping this huge interest in Classic shows Blizzard, or someone, that there’s still an interest in the way MMOs used to be and we’ll start seeing better MMOs that aren’t glorified mobile games

look up pantheon rise of the fallen and saga of lucimia.

[Jojenpaste-mankrik]

if that is the case, why aren’t hordes of people sitting at level 60, 70, and 80 in retail playing vanilla, bc, and wrath content?

Because the changes to systems and gear that have been made over the years has made doing this content, even at level, disappointingly easy.

[Nocht-westfall]

#nochanges movement

why do people have to assume that just because we share an idea we are part of some kind of “movement”

do you apply this logic to every person you encounter irl? yeesh!

[Coldfinger-arcanite-reaper]

Anyone who was paying the slightest bit of attention to what Classic is knew what Blizzard intended to do. A recreation of Vanilla WoW.

All of this has been discussed to death for years. You missed your chance to weigh in a long time ago.

[Holymirax-ashkandi]

Because the changes to systems and gear that have been made over the years has made doing this content, even at level, disappointingly easy.

i understand this. the point was that flux had said

If Blizzard had level 60 capped content with all current quality of life additions Classic would fall on it’s face.

that was the point i was driving home.

[Corbinmyman-atiesh]

@Fluxbeard-fairbanks

Did you know before starting up there was this massive talk of preserving patch 1.12 and that no quality of life or balance changes would ever be made to the client?

I had a buddy tell me it was coming out, I just got on [battle.net](http://battle.net) and re-subbed. 60 days later I’m done.

Would you have started playing had you know there was the #nochanges movement?

Posted 18 April 2019 (see sticky EVERYTHING WE DEFINITIVELY KNOW ABOUT CLASSIC at top of this forum):

Q: What is WoW Classic?
A: WoW Classic (Or ‘Classic’) is a (supposedly) faithful recreation of the game we all knew and loved as it existed before expansions and major Quality of Life (QOL) changes began shaping both the look and feel of the game.

Notice in the second line of the answer – “… as it existed before expansions …”

Anyone who didn’t know this failed to follow the development process and failed to read the information that was given WELL IN ADVANCE of the release.

[Holymirax-ashkandi]

Anyone who didn’t know this failed to follow the development process and failed to read the information that was given WELL IN ADVANCE of the release.

or failed to listen at Blizzcon 2017 when J Allen Brack, right after the intro video said classic would be an AUTHENTIC recreation of vanilla wow.
or failed to pay attention to pretty much every interview blizzard ever gave about classic wow, including those at Blizzcon 2018.

[Bearevement-mankrik]

ANY Dev that had a hand in cataclysm+ I want no where near classic.

[Galdor-maelstrom (Galdor)]

Not every interview stated the game had to be 100% no-changes. In fact, what we ended up with is not 100% no-changes either.

[Arinowene-bloodsail-buccaneers]

I joined particularly because Blizzard implied there would not be changes. I don’t want the devs at Blizzard meddling in the game. If I wanted to play what the hotdog devs cook up I would just play the current game, which I intensely dislike.

Yes, all of this.

The OP is somehow able to think there’s a “movement” that doesn’t have any actual people in it, apparently. People who, somehow, want Modern’s “quality of life changes” have no reason not to play Modern. If there was any significant amount of people who wanted 60-level-capped Modern, they’d be playing Modern with XP turned off.

[Coldfinger-arcanite-reaper]

I saw this kind of garbage logic before classic was even released.

“Well if it’s not 100% accurate why does it even matter if we change my pet issue!”

[Galdor-maelstrom (Galdor)]

What garbage? We were asked how we wanted Classic to look, no-changers were loud enough and that’s mostly what we got.

It was entirely possible that there could have been other changes, like using the Modern models or having a toggle for them.

[anon24166599]

How many games do you play for 60 days straight? How long do you expect a 15 year old game with finite content to last when you play all day every day? We all knew it was going to be like this and that’s perfectly fine. You can play retail if you want an endless, pointless treadmill.