I genuinely think Classic will have more players then retail does right now

Nicho-muradin · January 4, 2019, 6:08pm

True, which is why I think it would effect the launch of classic, but I don’t think it would effect it a week or so after launch. If anything it could even bring back more people. People come back for patch>once again realize blizz isn’t listening> oh wait I have classic now because I resubbed? lets try it out.

Tuathaa-wyrmrest-accord · January 4, 2019, 6:11pm

Sounds like an even more valid reason to launch it when a major patch drops.
Bait the hook and fish on

Nicho-muradin · January 4, 2019, 6:16pm

Yeah I honestly would prefer if they did. Ease up on server stress and (hopefully) getting rid of sharding sooner, possibly bring in more people eventually once they finally have another avenue to play WoW that isn’t the trash that is retail, and also you have less of a chance to hit the retail trolls that just want to come over to spam how much they think classic sucks. During content drought these issues can and will come up at a higher rate. At least that’s what I think.

Paeldryth-hyjal · January 4, 2019, 6:20pm

I can see it happening very early on due to being hyped up for 15 years, but not 6 months down the line when it becomes stale.

Thundertotem-blackwater-raiders · January 4, 2019, 6:28pm

Dunno, pretty “lively” corpse.

Honestly, I think you are overestimating the numbers, considering there are no official numbers out there yet. I’m gonna play a wait and see, considering Classic is not out til this Summer.

Baez-malganis · January 4, 2019, 6:38pm

Maybe for a month and then they will clear all content. The only people that will stick around will be PvP players.

Provengreil-senjin · January 4, 2019, 6:41pm

To be fair, levelling through sanitized, dead content for the 12th time with no marks of progression(world levels with you), nothing to look forward to(heirlooms mean gear never changes, lots of dead levels with no improvement), no players to see(most are raiding or doing dailies), and no professions to grind to break monotony(new profession tracks) means that levelling is painful in retail for all the worst reasons.

Muffindiving-gilneas · January 4, 2019, 6:50pm

Literally speaking, you need an education in statistics.

Cyberten-aegwynn · January 4, 2019, 6:53pm

I used to think that retail would have more than classic but in the recent 6 months it’s obvious that it is just on life support.

I have a feeling that if classic is a proven success we will see TBC servers announced within a year of classic launch. I am wondering how far they will go. Honestly there is minal reason to go past wotlk when it comes to restoration.

Cyberten-aegwynn · January 4, 2019, 6:54pm

These forums have more activity than BFA I think. I hope they don’t shard the forums…

Ghan-tichondrius · January 4, 2019, 7:06pm

It’s unrealistic to expect that classic will have more long term players than retail because it will be a static game versus a game that gets new content (albeit bad content, but nothing some hype can’t fix). They might have more players at launch but there’s not much longevity for most people in an unchanging game.

I’m sure that 99% of forum poster here will claim that they will play classic until the heat death of the universe, but the reality is that most players will get their fill of raiding, dungeons, etc. after a while and will move on.

Glarz-the-scryers · January 4, 2019, 7:11pm

players after wrath wont like classic and are used to this bad version of wow and dont realize what make wow so great which was classic wow.

i think it will do much better then modern wow with how bad blizzard is now.

Matcauthon-steamwheedle-cartel · January 4, 2019, 7:12pm

and that is what blizzard should fix. don’t just hand wave away leveling because it’s boring. make the world less boring.

Nicho-muradin · January 4, 2019, 7:15pm

You don’t know that it will stay static. It could go to TBC it could expand. You don’t know, I don’t know, no one knows.

Ghan-tichondrius · January 4, 2019, 7:38pm

Nihilism intensifies

Narya-kirin-tor · January 4, 2019, 7:55pm

If it “expands,” it will lose its core playerbase without attracting Modern’s, and have only those people who wanted something like Classic but still wanted Blizzard to make new content for them.

Morehwine-wyrmrest-accord · January 4, 2019, 8:06pm

K.

Baez-malganis · January 4, 2019, 8:27pm

Do you realize how cupcake vanilla raiding is?

Morehwine-wyrmrest-accord · January 4, 2019, 8:58pm

All of the content won’t even be out at the same time, so it won’t all be cleared in a month.

Plus, the level of “cupcake” those raids are depends on the group attempting them, and which raids. MC, BWL… pretty simple for most. From there things get a little more complex for more people.

Also, most people aside from the really hardcore won’t even get to level 60 in a month’s time.

Mcpurple-muradin · January 4, 2019, 9:27pm

Disagree with all your points.

Leveling changed drastically in 7.3.5 and , for me, leveling ( the WoW experience of leveling) was effectively dead after that patch.

I liked leveling in vanilla, TBC, and even the super fast legion leveling pre 7.3.5. But post 7.3.5? It felt like a new leveling experience all together that hadn’t been in WoW before, and it is one that does one thing … Stopped me from leveling all together. No other expansion did that before. So, indeed, something changed… And it wasn’t the speed.