If (when) Classic is hugely successful, do you think modern WoW developers will finally take note and try and to more closely review the things about Classic that make it so popular?
I mean, modern WoW has changed so much… sometimes it seems just for the sake of change… and other times it seems one or more devs are trying to bring “the next great thing” to WoW.
What if the next big thing, is bringing back some or all the great things about early WoW?
They eluded to that happening in their latest Q&A.
I hope so. Retail needs it, if it’s to survive.
In the words of John Rambo: “To survive Classic, it has to become Classic”
That sounds promising… I don’t keep up with the Q&As anymore… I’ve all but given up hope of ever returning to modern WoW.
they can’t do to much to retail without retail fans collectively losing their marbles.
if you want a good example just look at how much they cried about
you literally cannot remove even the slightest bit of convenience from retail without backlash
Blizzard can never undo the damage of retail. They would lose all their current players with only a hope that old ones would return. No way Activi$ion would allow that kind of business decision.
Would they really though? I mean the current players will accept almost ANYTHING with a smile… yeah they holler and moan… but keep them subs coming because they are the truly addicted.
they gave us all the same spells so we were equal.
then they pruned our spells until we had 4 buttons
so yeah i agree, no way they can go back on that because people would struggle with finding the extra keybinds.
I’d say that trying no flight in WoD cost them a fair bit.
When they finally went to add it, given the amount of work they said they had to do it was pretty clear they intended to never have it and pulled a 180 because of the response from the players.
Basically, this. I completely agree with OP that retail WoW would benefit from more closely resembling Vanilla. I think that current retail would be a much better game if it’s MMORPG still had RP.
However, I strongly believe that a reversion to Vanilla principles is severely unlikely.
you haven’t been paying attention then if you believe that. go look at the QQ over the portals change.
And yet those people will stay subbed and keep playing whatever is added to the game.
i don’t know. if they throw a complete conniption over portals i can’t imagine what would happen if they made wow like vanilla.
I don’t know if it has to be “like Vanilla”… just bring back the successful aspects… like rewards vs. efforts, deterministic loot, do away with LR and all the varied difficulties of raids/dungeons, return to a clear and concise gear progression path.
I think the majority of players on modern WoW would enjoy a game where they feel good about getting loot again… where they can actually see/feel the progression of their character, where professions are meaningful.
Sure there would be some stop playing… but if it replaced them with an even higher number of players who prefer an enjoyable game over a meh past time… it might be worthwhile.
still wouldn’t be enough to get me to play retail.
No way. Uh, which QA was this? Got a source? Is there really hope?
Most recent Q&A. They talked about how they’re taking steps to make the world bigger and stuff. Also level squish to 60 possibly.
With Classic WoW, we should pretty much be considered a lost cause as far as coming back to retail is concerned.
Though they could slowly shift things back to try to get more players.
People cry about stuff like portals, but how many of them actually quit over it? That’s the thing. Outside of certain things, people largely seem to raise a big fuss on the forums then just accept it and live with it.
So they didn’t actually say something like “and if Classic does well, maybe we’ll try to adapt some of that.” The level squish is pretty controversial and people don’t like it when they can’t fly or teleport.