Maybe it is nostalgia. But that doesn’t make it wrong.
Consider - now, it’s considered an annoyance and a problem on YOUR part if you’re not immediately available when someone calls you. If they text you and you don’t answer in five minutes, maybe it’s 'cause your dead or mad. I go on vacation in Hawaii - but I still have my phone and they can still call me and expect me to be able to DO something. From Hawaii. I’m in IT, so I can actually log into a customer’s location from my phone on the beach and do work. While this is a boon for my employer and a relatively expected thing in our current society - is that a good thing for us overall?
The idea of relaxing. Of kicking back. Of slowing down. It may be nostalgia, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t “better” in many ways.
My new mantra - “You think you don’t, but you do.”
I was in the same boat. If you can still access the email address you used, you can request the authenticator be removed. It was kind of fun to recover my account and look at what I had in my bags from back in the day.
And before you ask - yes, I love my power windows, my electric door locks, my accident avoidance warnings in my mirrors, my being able to order pizza from my phone, and my air conditioning.
But … being able to just visit 1950, and then come home.
We were all “retailers” at one time and a great number of us (8 Million) Stayed on to play 1.12 then 12+ million at its peak. Latter expansions showed a sharp decline in numbers.
I personally believe that Classic WoW was a better designed and thus a more enjoyable experience for players. Yes, it’s more difficult however It is for these reasons Many retailers will stay and enjoy the game. Others may not . It doesn’t matter, Classic WoW will be making a come back, a testament to its greatness. I do believe that it will overtake retail in popularity.
I have both the vanilla Baron mount and Zulian Tiger on my account. Wish I could sell’em on retail. Then use the gold on tokens to pay for Classic, as I have no intention to ever use my old account again. Probably got a lot of oddities in my bank as well, as I liked collecting all sorts of weird stuff.
I see your point and I don’t totally disagree with it, as I say, my problem is not with the game, it’s with all the gatekeeping, with ppl complaining all the time saying “back then was better” even if they never actually played back then.
I am looking forward to play Classic, when I started I didn’t really understand the game enough to actually enjoy it, then I quit and just came back on Wrath… I do miss the old world, I’ll never forget the first time I had to fight the Defias Brotherhood or the first time I flew into Undercity… But I’m sure I won’t be playing a lot of it.
A key difference between the modern game and original is emphasis on the world. In Classic, upon character creation you immediately start your adventure in the world, which is cohesive and tuned to your level. You must actually play to survive and advance. You make choices about weapons, how to gain experience, how to spend money, and others.
In the modern game, money flows way too easily, you can’t die if you try while questing, the tuning is wonky. There are half-discarded elements all over the place. The resulting design does not fit together nicely at all IMO.
The games are different, and many people do like modern, which built out some play-styles. I hope everyone enjoys their game of choice.
Why does it matter, as a re release classic will in general primarily appeal to people who played vanilla and maybe people who started during BC/Wrath. That’s just the way rereleases generally work.
Honestly, I don’t know if you need access to the email.
About close to a year ago I opened a ticket asking if they could recover one of my old accounts. I told them the email that should be associated and a few character names and the server they should be on, and they were actually able to to connect the account to my bnet.
Good to know. I forgot, I did have to send them a scan of my state ID. I just remember them using my old email to contact me. I think depending on what you have or know, they can work with it if they can link the account to you.
As to the question posited by the OP, depends on their mindset. If retailers come to Classic™ expecting anything close to retail they probably won’t stick around long to see what it has to offer.
Dude, people who do not want to play an mmo as an mmo should not play an mmo. It is entirely blizzards fault for catering to those that want to play an mmo like a single player game. There was no need at all to morph wow into another version of diablo.
Except WoW is still an MMO, it’s just not the same kind of MMO as existed 15 years ago. Which is why yeah classic likely will have little appeal to newer gamer, has nothing to do with what an MMO is it has a lot more to do with what people played as their first MMO.
Your childhood was better than theirs. Take it from the perspective of someone who is a child of the 60s. Kids nowadays are being bred as lazy, antisocial loners outside of their phones. How can you think that is a better childhood?
I agree. Vanilla WoW wasn’t really hard, it just had tons of time-killers in it like GY runs and having to eat/drink constantly, along with it taking much longer to travel throughout the world.
I want to play classic when it comes out because I think the community aspects were the best WoW has ever had and I think that is such a core part of WoW. However, I amworried that it might be hard to play now that I’m not in high school and can’t devote 5+ hours a day during the week and can afford to wait around for a group to form and get to a dungeon and take 2 hours to complete.
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