Does your monthly subscription include retail WoW since it gives access up to BfA? Or is retail an additional purchase since you must buy Shadowlands.
playing current expansion.
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Does it have âclassicâ appended at the end of the expansion name?
Yes=Not Retail
No=Retail
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So (just to clarify) would you say that your monthly subscription fee includes retail world of warcraft?
Retail = The game as it currently is, patch 9.0.whatever. Technically doesnât necessarily include Shadowlands in the definition, but if you really want the main community of active players, youâll need it.
The subscription includes access to retail, classic (vanilla), and soon classic (BC).
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This isnât up for debate. Look in your WoW folder. Thereâs a âClassicâ folder and a âRetailâ folder. Retail is everything that isnât Classic. This includes people who are playing an expansion behind by subbing and not buying the current expansion. This, obviously, includes people who DO buy the current expansion. This includes people who start the game, level lock at level 1, and do nothing but ERP in Goldshire. All of this is Retail if itâs not on a Classic server, because its not about what expansion youâre playing in, itâs about the version of the game, which is constant whether or not you own the current expansion.
Additionally, while this doesnât state âRetailâ for the non-Classic version, âClassicâ itself is very clearly defined as its own standalone âgameâ:
Which implies the other one is âRetailâ, since there is no 3rd option to distinguish between non-Classic and non-Classic Current Expansion.
If youâre clicking âWorld of Warcraftâ and not âWorld of Warcraft Classicâ, then youâre playing Retail.
As a tangent, Iâm still just really surprised Blizzard chose to adopt the âRetailâ terminology to describe the most up to date version of the game. Thatâs very blatantly a private server term that doesnât even make sense here, but they picked it up anyway since that crowd was familiar with it.
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How to define retail wow.
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Sure I would say that.
I would probably say the retail subscription comes with the classic games included but thinking about it that isâŚnot really true.
It has become more a âaccess world of warcraft in all itâs formsâ with a one time additional cost to play the most recent expansion fee.
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The pictures in this thread brings up a question.
Can you have a Classic folder without a Retail folder?
I play both so I donât know, and Iâm not deleting Retail to find out.
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Anything that follows the timeline of expansions. So basically anything thatâs not one of the classic games.
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Cut and paste your retail folder in another folder and test it out.
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Retail - BfA/Shadowlands
Classic - Classic/TBC classic
All included for monthly sub.
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Shadowlands is not included.
If its one the main client its retail.
If its on the Classic client its Classic.
Very simple.
Retail is the modern version of the game. It doesnât matter if you donât own Shadowlands, if youâre playing the version that has it then youâre playing retail even if that content is locked to you. Itâs the one simply labelled âWorld of Warcraftâ on the launcher.
The one labelled âWorld of Warcraft Classicâ is Classic, naturally. Soon weâll also have TBC Classic.
Everyone paying a sub has access to both retail and Classic. One has to pay an extra one-time charge to access retailâs Shadowland content.