Just ignore them they are part of classic’s “community” and like to bash anyone still playing retail.
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i know… i’m just trying to have a positive thread. but the classic trolls have shown up full force. 
People really make it seem worse than it actually is. It’s not as good as Legion sure, but not nearly as bad as WoD at least in my thoughts. In WoD you literally stood in your Garrison for like 90% of your gametime, and there was nothing else to do unless you liked PvP or Raiding. In BfA, we have two different islands to go to for dailies and the rewards are actually a bit satisfying.
To each their own, I suppose.
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The raw truth is that nobody cares, Dekkar. The developers design a game they like, not what you or I like. So, our opinions don’t seem to matter one diddly squat.
More than anything else if people are enjoying the game that is what counts in the long run.
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Yeah but when you can pay $15 for an apple, and then later $15 for an apple and an orange, and the number of customers more than triples when you do that – they didn’t come for the apples, mate.
We had a bunch of retail tourists who were already paying for retail and tried classic. They weren’t the difference.
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i’ll say it again… what will happen 6 months after naxx is on farm? are the same amount of people going to be maining classic? there were 3.5m people who bought bfa the FIRST DAY. that doesn’t mean everyone stayed. the classic people love to bring that up. you had to pay $50 or whatever it was for bfa but classic was free. that’s not saying much that people resubbed to play a free game. and also even the people that came back were NOT as many as people who bought bfa. so it’s actually less popular in general.
I like them both 
They’re different games that scratches different itches
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to play retail lately because I’m an altholic and am trying to get all my alts to a high level in Classic before Phase 2’s ganking starts in earnest
I hope to be able to get back to BFA soon…
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No, there were 3.5m pre-purchases over 6 months during a very successful xpac, who were all counted as if they bought it on the first day, and who got blindsided by a terrible sequel and ended up voting with their wallets. That doesn’t make it “more popular” than Classic.
As for 6 months, well, we’ll have to see. The tourism seems to have tapered off now – most of the people left are actually interested.
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Yes, I know the figure that got thrown around.
It counted all the pre-purchases. Those were not transactions that were initiated in one day, they were transactions that got finalized in one day.
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i pre-purchased and have been subbed the entire time. am i not supposed to count because i decided i wanted to use my boost in legion instead of waiting til bfa dropped? don’t be silly my dude.
It’s just misleading to say 3.4 million purchases “on the first day,” when almost none of them actually happened on the first day. That implies a snapshot momentum that never existed.
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what does it matter if the fact is that more people played for bfa than “came back” from their private servers to play classic? the fact is blizz made a ton more money off of bfa than they’ve made from classic.
I’m enjoying BfA for sure.
It’s not as good as Legion or MoP. But there’s still plenty to do.
I think it’s main issue is that the expansion features (Azerite Gear, Warfronts, etc) kind of flopped.
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Let’s put it this way.
BFA got 3.5m pre-purchases over 6 months. So about 600k per month on average, and assume some slide up and down between months.
Classic doesn’t surpass that six month total but seems to at least plausibly rival it – with one month. There’s a very good chance that Classic’s one month is indeed “more popular” than any given month of BFA’s pre-purchases, which were pretty much its high point (as it will be for any expansion since Wrath peaked, including the “good” ones like Legion – aging product and all).
None of this is even counting that BFA has lost so many people that – and I cannot stress this enough – spontaneously tripling its playerbase does not surpass its first month.
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are you sure we weren’t charged? because i used my boost before the expansion came out. like months before. so they just gave us a free boost and didn’t charge us? my medicine makes my memory bad. so i’m really not sure.
I got BFA a couple weeks after release. I was still toodling around in Broken Isles because I hadn’t played since Cata. I got a boost but didn’t use it until near the end of Uldir. It didn’t require a pre-purchase.
Paladin and warrior. What can I say, I like plate armor.
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just checked classic. only 2 full realms.
for retail it’s 23.
didn’t count high or anything lower. just full realms.