Its what makes the least sense out of this. Classic was the perfect opportunity to diversify their port-folio. There’s a demand for a more old school take on the MMO genre, Classic’s launch shown as much. Why not take the opportunity?
Personally, I felt like it was re-released, too early. I played the Demo and gave my feedback. Didn’t feel like I was listened to, and they’re making all these “adjustments”, as we go along.
That’s where communication comes into play. If you can’t deliver as fast as your players wish, at least tell them where you’re going with this.
Look at Cyberpunk and FF7R. People waited close to a decade for each and they managed to gather a cult following through straight marketing before they’re even released.
Ordinary people have insane expectations. I am a former software dev. Large software (like WoW) takes 20 times as long as people expect. Not twice as long. Not three times. Twenty times as long.
You can tell people that, but they won’t believe you. Real software takes so much longer than their “common sense” tells people.
Blizzard has had an expansion every 2 years, because it took 200 people two years to create that much content each time.
Nobody is arguing that. If anything its the corporate wings of these companies that are delusional. Do you know that they were meant to aim for yearly expansions for a good long while? It was completely asinine considering the workload required but corporate wanted their profit.
When they finally saw it was unrealistic they just doubled down on the MTXs and Skinner box aspect of the game instead.
My post honestly just comes from a wish for them to acknowledge the Classic community as a part of their plans, not just fodder to be fed to Retail once it just falls apart from negligence.
