Maybe this will not get deleted, but ive been playing Vanilla WoW recently on private,
and it is very fun. I never played the original, and now i get to see loch modan, stormwind before Cata, etc.
It is harder, slower, and more spontaneous group requiring than the super solo casual mode of my time in Legion and BFA.
I am a lowly lvl 12 priest, wanding my way through boars, spending time figuring out clues where to go, and enjoying no sharding…seeing the same people all day long.
Cities are not empty or spread thin. People are not flying so the PvP is at least on even ground. I look forward to my pvp rank. I look forward to mounts and knowing just how much worth it will be after the hours of running everywhere.
Mobs can be frustrating, but it makes you approach world PVE much like one giant open world dungeon of retail. My only gripe is that time to kill a pack vs. the time they respawn makes for sticky situations.
Plus, grinding through to the end of that dungeon and knowing you have to fight your way out HC style like in Phantasy Star or FF, gives you a real sense of fear and heightened situational awareness…always watch your back.
Hardly any hybrids, everyone has specific and extremely important roles. I love the skill trees. Reminds me of old D2.
I know the old world really well. Yet, now it feels massive and I’m visiting spots for grinding in a way that each area has a je ne sais quoi that does not exist in retail. I’m learning roads, homes, the names of NPCs, wheras retail is basically a drive by quest turn in hub.
It’s definitely the same genre as all of them. I think Grim Dawn is currently the best of the crop, but admittedly, I haven’t played Path of Exile for a while.
Only 87 days until “summer 2019”. Kinda late to have a meaningful beta to find and report bugs and then fix and retest said bugs. Are ya’ll going to have one of those faux betas for the purpose of generating hype or just skip the beta altogether?
If I recall correctly Vanilla WoW was pretty much a massive beta anyway, not having a beta and letting us work through all of those issues is part of what makes the Classic experience the true classic experience.
“Florida is America’s basement. It’s wet, it’s filled with mold, the strange insects… alligators… alligators are dinosaurs, Ipitydabull! You knew that right?” - Robert California
The micro-holiday calendar has a 3 month gap between July 31 and November 12, so it suggests that the release is planned for August. That would make the “classic summer” remark counterintuitive. Maybe it was pushed back already.