How many of the people here are actually gonna have time for true classic WoW?

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I have way more time now than I did in 2006.

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Most shopping is easily done on the way home - and 6:30 pm allows that extra time. I can be home by 5:30 pm if I come directly. Ditto for preparing dinner, which is just for me most times (sometimes shared with my brother, sometimes he cooks).

I don’t make much mess around the apartment to begin with, so cleaning is something I tend to do routinely and takes little time. My brother is similar, but I’m not responsible for any of his mess anyway. Even helping him out with his dog and cat isn’t my responsibility so much as something I choose when I’m available to do.

I don’t have a significant other, and don’t really feel the lack - but the kind of person who would be compatible with me would be more likely to sit shoulder to shoulder playing their own game or doing their own activity.

Even when I spent 80 hours in one week back in Cata (:smirk: parental controls could send emails, and I had it on my account for security reasons from before they offered an authenticator) I would get on a flight and go wash dishes, have someone go afk in a dungeon and go whip up some quick food, hearth and run the vacuum over a section of the room.

However, one of the points is that this is all my free time into which I slot the necessary things. I could choose to play that long on any particular date, but it doesn’t mean that I would sit down and not move for 13 hours, and would do that every single Saturday and Sunday.

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I have as much time now, as I did then. Possibly more as the kids are out of the house now, and have their own lives. I can typically play from like 7pm - 11pm weekdays. Weekends, about the same, unless it’s raining.

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It doesn’t matter how much time you have or not, you never lose progress, you can keep playing at any pace you want.

You only need to dedicate 14 hours a day if you plan to go into esports or world first raiding.

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You think you do but you don’t.

Sorry i couldn’t resist…

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I’m taking a week off work and getting as close to 60 as i can. On weekdays I will have 4 hour days some days. Some days it will be less. On Weekends I will sleep around 6 hours and try to get at least 6 hours a day on weekends. Some weekends ill go full nerd mode.

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I had the time to put into Vanilla, but I was only 9. I think the farthest I got was to 40 on a warlock during vanilla.

Now I’m finished with College and my job just became full time. If only classic had released a year ago! Then again, I don’t know that I would have studied as hard as I did if it had been out…

You don’t have to be in a high-end progression guild to experience vanilla. I have fond memories of just leveling and watching my Dad raid MC and ZG.

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The initial argument is fundamentally flawed, vanilla did not require a massive amount of time to be put into it. Any goal in the game had a certain amount of time that you had to put in to achieve it, but you could put in that time at your own pace. The only exceptions were the r14 grind and racing for server/world firsts.

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Fact and unfortunate… IF I only had 22 hrs a day extra.

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I’m retired. How I manage my time is none of your concern.

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As much time as I put into other games. Going to try everything, if I can’t dedicate myself to PVE, I’ll just go all in on PvP/RPPvP.

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We know the primary age range of the average Classic player due to the polls floating around. On average those people are going to have less time than the did in the past. There will always be some exceptions to that rule.

I expect a strong push for the first month or so and then everyone will take a breath. RL comes first and the older we are the more it hurts to sit around at a desk all day long lol.

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See I expect things to be pretty chill because we know exactly what to expect with Vanilla. I’d imagine most folks are going to be here for the ride.

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Or a pause button for the day…

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My playtime will be much less than when I was 24 and unemployed.
However, I’m not after any server firsts.

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Or looking at Facebook instead of their kids.

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I’m not 35 any more raising a young child with my wife and my son’s about to graduate from high school. My career is no longer a promising up-and-coming kind of thing where I need to prove myself but rather an established successful job where I’m pretty well set for the foreseeable future and, if I’m lucky, I could retire early in 5 or 10 years.

I’m thinking that you were on the young end of the Vanilla crowd, and that most of those who will sustain Classic will be 10 or 20 years older than you.

I could be wrong about that. It will be interesting to find out.

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The notion that hardcore mmo players didn’t have jobs and lives back in the day of November 2004 really amazes me.

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Just a couple things. A lot of kids play the game now and a lot of retired people that will play as well. I am going to take a vacation with my 9 friends when it launches to get it going.

I am running a survey to gather info on what to expect at launch.

https://marktatsu.typeform.com/to/xTYgLQ

I will be posting the results in a couple weeks.

For the Horde.

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Vanilla WoW came out when I was 18. Going to be 33 on the 3rd of April. I don’t have any children. Yeah, I’m gonna take full advantage of this release. I won’t be able to play like I did when I was an 18 year old with no direction in life, but you bet you I’m gonna play the crap out of this.

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