*IF* Guild banks are added

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I am sorry but when you have multiple classic guild leaders coming to the forums to tell Blizzard they need banks it will happen.

Time will show why these things did not break the classic experience. Anyone arguing against this has clearly never managed a guild because people sound insane saying oh just give out mats individually.

Noone who has played on some secret Classic server understands what will happen when you concentrate that playerbase into a few official servers.

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Oh 2004-2005 people did have success on this, private serve people did have success on this too. They are better than you? No, they just play a game without QoL convenience.

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Thank you for the replies and your honest answer to my question.
These the questions that it will really boil down to.
Will players play if they are added? How do they effect core gameplay? And do they make blizz’s job easier?
Same questions they asked when considering loot sharing, bnet, right click report, and sharding!

That is also why But Blizz said We don’t want to use modern solutions to Vanilla problems is flawed. They have done and are doing exactly that!

I watched when sharding was announced as this forum and many posters here accepted sharding without batting an eye.
More than I would have ever imagined to be honest.
I thought sharding and loot sharing would unite the classic player base.
It didn’t. LOL

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Was it in Vanilla, no. Should it be in Classic, no. #NoChanges

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Awesome ideal! Love ideals.
Too bad in practice they sometimes take a backseat.
Just sux that blizz sailed that ship for ya awhile back.
Thanks for your answer.
Sorry you won’t be joining us if they add guild banks.

I salute your idealistic stand though muh dude!
:vulcan_salute: Live long and prosper. :vulcan_salute:

Edit to ask: You’re ok with loot sharing and sharding though? You won’t not play because of those but gbanks are a deal breaker?

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I would still play either way on this issue. Honestly of all the hot button items I find this one the least important.

I also find your wish for people to not discuss silly. The entire purpose of a forum is to have discussions.

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Are you replying to me?
My phone is not showing if you responded to the thread or another poster

The last thing I want to do is hinder any actual discussion.
Whether I agree with it or not.

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Talking about guild banks directly i don’t have any issues against it. I have played a lot WoTLK and did not have problem with that.
But this feature don’t are part of classic and you know it, this feature will change the game and turn it in a different game that don’t are a classic version of Vanilla wow. In other words i don’t want play a classic version of ResidentEvil without zombies!

So, my main reason that i are against GB:

The people will ask for more changes and more changes = more different the game will be. They will ask because a changes already had made so they will say “This don’t will impact nothing” like the guy above are saying.

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I usually use the reply button at the bottom of the screen. Likely what caused your issue. You asked people to not debate or give reasons. Discussion is impossible without them so asking for people to not use them is essentialy asking for no discussion.

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Ok. I’ll gladly discuss gbanks and the reasoning for and against them in the actual gbank discussion thread:

This thread is asking an honest yes or no question.
A gauge of the communities ideals if you will.

Will you play classic if gbanks are added?

Thanks

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Absolutely incorrect. Loot sharing and sharding are an absolute deal breaker for me. This should be the closest thing to Vanilla possible. If it’s not, they need to drop the cease and desist order and allow pservers to continue so people have an option to enjoy this game, outside of the dumpster fire that is retail.

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Ahh. I see what you’re saying there.
Im looking at it more like a strawpoll but I can see how it can be viewed as such.

Thing is I clearly stated this isn’t to spark a debate on the merits of gbanks.
Its to gauge the community ideals.
I will add my reasoning for this in my OP but I’m still just asking a question based on a what if scenario.
I’m not trying to debate the merits of adding or not adding.

I just want to honestly know if guild banks are a deal breaker.
If people can’t honestly say yes or no to that one question (and live by what they say) what does that say about all of this hoopla?

It’s not worth the cyberspace it’s taking up


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I would much rather that my contributions within a guild be more personal due to people receiving items from mail sent by myself rather than just yoinked from the freebie box.
It doesn’t really improve my game-play experience but if people are going to whinge about it non-stop, its really not up to me.

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I can’t imagine anyone being fine with battle.net integration, the 7.3.5 client, right click reporting, loot trading, and sharding but guild banks being the line they won’t cross.

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Exactly!
Yet here we are.

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Go to Guild Banks Pt. 378 if you want facts on guild banks aka they shouldn’t be in Classic thread where pro changers get refuted daily.

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Why another thread?

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I wasn’t going into the reasons for or against it. That discussion is usually about trying to convince the other person to change their stance “hey you might be wrong about that”. It is important however if we assume blizz is watching the forums for info that they know why you are making the choice your making. To that end it is important to discuss our reasons for our choices “So why are you making that choice?”.

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Yea that thread is a fine representation of why communucation being bad isn’t just Blizz not communicating.
Keep going over there all you guys are doing is making the entire player base look like fools.
Anyone with a 3rd grade reading comprehension can see that. LOL

Onto the topic if the OP:
So if they are added you honestly wouldn’t play?
It’s a simple yes or no question.

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People are missing the boat on this


Why do people feel so strong about “Old WOW” vs “Retail WOW” ? Because there was a philosophical shift in development of the game post TBC expansion. The game became fundamentally different in WoTLK, and most of the changes since then have been as a result of efforts from Blizzard / Activision to keep revenue up by growing the user base. They felt the best way to do that is make the game more accessible by reducing playtime / effort required to gain progression and by increasing the production value on story telling.

That doesn’t mean there weren’t good things introduced from WoTLK - BfA
it’s just that most of them were aimed at trying to achieve a different thing than pre-expac WOW, and TBC.

If people enjoy pre-expac WOW so much because of the greater sense of reward, greater sense of community, greater sense of immersion
it seems to me that taking things like achievements, guild improvements (banks, calendars, etc), TBC’s LFG system would promote those things we like about the pre-expac WOW.

Allowing for some quality of life features that do not go against the spirit of the original WOW game will do more to attract & retain a sizable community that is, quite frankly, needed for the game to work on the long term

I understand the “slippery slope” & “camel’s nose under the tent” argument
but Blizzard has a very specific intention for this iteration of the game
and it’s to serve an audience that is looking for a different experience than what their “retail” version offers.

All that said, easiest way to solve all of this is to eventually recreate all expacs of the game and let people play during which ever era of WOW they prefer the most.

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