How long will retailers last on classic?

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Re-read the OP and lets try that again. This thread is about hating on Retail players and declaring how long they won’t last. Despite the fact that some “retail” players are also “Original Vanilla Players” and some of the retail haters have only ever played Private Servers.

This has nothing to do with the OP’s post, and everything to do with your long built up resentment to anything you feel isn’t “your tribe”.

And its that tribalism that will destroy the community by making cliques of “I fought in the Forum war” and “You weren’t there man, you don’t know”.

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“Hold a higher ground than your enemy, lest he fight you on his own terms”.

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All ya gotta do is log over to commit murloccal genocide for a couple minute & you’ll be fine.

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And do you see me agreeing with it?

Could care less. You were saying how we should be accepting of retail fans. I agree partially. We should want them to play classic.

We shouldn’t change it to accommodate them.

I could not care less who was on the forums. What i care about is people playing classic for what it is.

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Couldn’t care less.

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We need a better label for them than “retailer”. A retailer is a retail outlet such as Walmart, BestBuy, or Target. Hmmm maybe call them…

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That has literally never worked with the people who want changes.

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Auto correct sucks.

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I think it’s more veterans vs. noobs. Noobs isn’t the best term either, but it more accurately describes an appropriate gaming term for someone new to a game. The veterans don’t want change. The noobs want it to be like what they’re used to in retail.

Ultimately it’s the devs who make the decisions and they are siding with the veteran POV, so there needs to be no whining from the veterans about anything.

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No issue here if noobs want to play classic.

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Ya, because we’ve all been noobs at one point. Actually I will be because I was a noob in 2007.

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After the fourth or fifth Hogger wipe.

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I wish I could agree. Honestly, you have waaaay to much faith in humanity. :rainbow:

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Vanilla WoW compared to classic EQ (and project 1999) is EXTREMELY easy. Being able to solo to 60 was amazing to me back in those days.

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This is what I’m more curious about.
I could see a good portion of the private server people leaving Classic due to either:

  1. They say there’s something that’s not the same as it was on their private server (even though the private server probably had the numbers wrong)

  2. They don’t like the idea of being surrounded by Retail people that may actually like both Classic and Retail at the same time (elitism).

  3. They dont like having to pay to play (they want the game for free).

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Now compare classic to retail leveling

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I quit my first three characters in the 30s in TBC doing Vanilla material. If that’s at all indicative of many retailer’s experience (it was before the TBC xp nerf), that it starts getting grueling around then, I’d think we’ll see the place clear out in a matter of a few months. Cap seems so far away and you’re just slogging your way to your 40 mount then wondering how you’re going to do 20+ more levels like this, iirc.

Definitely a fun bottleneck somewhere around 35ish.

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Where was anyone suggesting that in this thread?

Really?

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They are the forever victim, they are easily baited and will continue to do so until the end of time,it’s pointless to argue with him/her/them

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I also hope I win the lottery and sprout angel wings.

I do hope people playing retail like classic, I just very much doubt they will as virtually every attempt to add a tiny bit of “vanilla” into retail has been met with teeth gnashing and wailing until it was removed or nerfed into irrelevancy.

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