Or are most people just one or the other?
there’s no real data we can go off of here other than anecdote but here’s how my experience goes when I play retail:
- Log in
- Didn’t play for a day, behind on a ton of things
- have to do visions
- have to do mythic+
- have to do assault dailies
- it’s ok, ill just pvp instead
- 2 shot by a beam from the sky
- demon hunters spamming evasion every 4 seconds, near immunity every 1 and a half minutes, 100% leech, can’t kill them.
- its alright, i can just do arena instead and cap
- queue’d in lfg for 2s, and i get in
- someone throws a singular tricycle wheel at me and i die
- Log off
Total Time played: 5 minutes
Me in Classic:
- Log in
- world chat is locked (again)
- Walk forever to azshara
- a deranged zombie mage roots me in place and IEDs me with arcane explosion, proceeds to eat my body
- continue walking to Azshara
- grind for hours at Azshara
- ding
- be extremely happy for that one talent point which increases my damage by 0.0000001%
- flip out when i open a big-mouth clam and get a golden pearl, 2% closer to my bugatti at 60
- Hearthstone back
time played: i can’t believe its 4 am this game is trash
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10/10 for having being ganked by an undead mage as the highlight of your night.
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I’m sure some people do play both, but I don’t hear about it much. I imagine there are players who have a weekly routine of logging on to one, capping their various participation points, and then doing the same for the other.
When Nost was up, I would find myself playing that for a month or two, and then Retail for a month or two. I tended to alternate rather than overlapping, but that’s just my pattern.
Eventually I sort of drifted away from BfA, and these days I’m not much interested in what’s been going on there over the last few patches.
Despite the inevitable disappointment, some part of me will be compelled to try Shadowlands when it comes out. And I have no doubt what I’ll find; a brand new chore list!
Retail WoW feels to me like somebody tried to clone Original WoW but the experiment went horribly wrong, resulting in Original WoW being sacrificed during the creation of Deranged Zombie WoW. Zombie WoW desperately wants to be as good as its clone template but all it ever ends up doing is humping the dead corpse of its former self.
I came back to Classic after having quit WoW in early Cata, excluding about 2 months screwing around the Timeless Isle in MoP.
I’m sure plenty of people bounce back and forth. I’d even bet that some people who came back just for Classic actually play retail more now because it’s more friendly for people who have a limited playtime.
No. I think retail’s is one of the most boring MMORPGs I’ve ever played.
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God i love retail
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Hoping Shadowlands is good, but i’ve basically been bored of BFA since a month after it came out. It doesn’t seem like it has changed much, if anything it’s gotten worse over time.
Does anyone play both retail and classic?
Yes.
The one thing I can say with absolute certainty is that “most people” don’t play WOW at all. (Well over 7 billion people = most. Blizzard’s 2014 infographic said a mere 100 million people had played WOW, and that number won’t have grown all that much since.)
Now, of the people who currently play … who knows? Some play only WOW Classic. Some play only Retail WOW. Some play both Classic and Retail. Some are only playing now while waiting on TBC Classic or Wrath Classic. Some still play on pirate servers. Some are quitting over things they don’t like. Some are quitting because real life intrudes., whether time or finances. Some are switching which they play because one or the other doesn’t work for them. Some are getting bored.
Now, me personally, that one I can answer. I play only WOW Classic, and when TBC Classic is released I will play both WOW Classic and TBC Classic. I do not even have Retail WOW installed and have even lost any interest in keeping up with the ongoing lore machinations or game changes. Playing WOW Classic and knowing that the talents and skills I’ve got, I’ve got forever, the way my characters play, they will play forever, that’s amazing to me. (Yes, TBC will be different, but it will also have one snapshot of talents and skills applied from start to eternity. It won’t have scripted patched, each of which changes the FotM class/spec, new gear so the old is useless, new raids/dungeons so the old are pointless.)
I play both. weekends classic, weekdays retail.
I only log to retail when I feel like farming some gold for tokens. Otherwise I stick to Classic or jump over to Overwatch.
I only play Retail, but I come to these forums to remind myself why I don’t play Classic.
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I mostly stick to Classic, but honestly, both it and retail are a mess. I won’t touch either ever again after BC releases.
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I doubt I will either. I’ll just be playing BC and Shadowlands. But, I might miss Classic from time to time, and come back for something. It’ll maybe depend on how the transition to BC happens, and which character(s) I end up keeping in Classic.
I still log on to retail to do pet battles
Ive given up on the rest of the awful content
classic is more fun
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I kinda bounce between the two because why not. The sub covers both games so it’s not costing me extra, after all.
I spend far more time in Classic, though. I’ll probably move on once they drop Classic TBC, though.
I only play classic. I effectively forget retail even exists.
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Classic only, I’ve tried a few times to get into retail but just feels so hollow to me and I need the DnD elements like classic has. That 100% exp bonus going on in retail only made it worse. 1 shotting mobs with a simple arcane missle at lvl 12 every second is awful
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