If you build it, they will come

WoW Classic WoW Classic General Discussion
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I see a lot of posts in this forum asking for certain quality-of-life changes, such as this post that wants Blizzard to implement optional level scaling in dungeons to solve the “problem” of people helping n00bies level, who don’t want to cheese a bunch of dungeons with their level-60 and the n00bie in tow (because that’s boring and unchallenging) and also don’t want to level a new toon (because that’s tedious and apparently too much to ask).

Others, like this post, are asking for Blizzard to add new content after everybody out there has “Naxx on farm.”

This kind of stream of requests for changes, of course, meets with a tired and frustrated #nochanges crowd, and even some out there who are so fed up that they want you all to just stop asking for changes already.

While I empathize with such frustration, I don’t want you to stop asking for changes. What I want instead is for you to consider that you have the power in your hands to discover the promise of Classic, the greatness of Vanilla – and not through rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia but rather through faith in something bigger than you. Blizzard isn’t what made Vanilla WoW great – it was the community of players that did so. (Props to Blizzard and all, they made a good game. It was not Blizzard, however, that made this good game a great game.)

All of the problems and challenges that people are asking Blizzard to implement in order to increase the QoL have non-Blizzard solutions.

  • New to the game? Join a leveling guild geared towards helping n00bies. After a while when you become the non-n00b, pay it forward and help other n00bies level.
  • This post is a great discussion of how creative players with a passion for the game create content all on their own. Support these people and/or become one yourself and scratch that creative itch you have.
  • Love those addons? Use them. Support their creators and maintainers. Develop your own.

And before you ask Blizzard to solve what you perceive to be a problem with the game by making changes in the mechanics or the lore or whatnot, ask yourself this: how could a talented, creative, passionate group of players come together and make this problem irrelevant?

The key to all of this, in my mind, is like that movie Field of Dreams. If you build it (authentic™ Vanilla), they will come. Who are they? Not long-dead baseball players, but rather the kinds of people who will create a passionate, vibrant, creative community of players and make a good game into a great game. Like the movie, if you don’t know what you’re looking for – if you don’t have the faith that they will come – they’ll be right there in front of you and you won’t see them.

Why is this? Because those with the faith in this happening, the insight into it who know what to look for – they are the they I’m talking about. You are the they I am talking about. Most of us might not have the talent to put together a whole movie on Youtube or run a popular blog or even be all that good at RP if we try our hands at that sort of thing. But we will at least be able to spot the best stuff when it happens, because we will be expecting it, and we will be looking out for it.

I can’t wait to see what happens. Ya gotta have faith. :wink:

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Well for mine, it would require a literal nonstop stream of new players, forever, to constantly keep every single level range full of people to play with

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Can you picture such a thing in Classic? I can.

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And yet your change comes with negatives.
Like impacting those who want to farm lower level dungeons for materials.

Furthermore at no point in vanilla did i ever have trouble finding people to group with.

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I specifically said that it should be an option.

Also, in vanilla the population was constantly growing, by the millions. It’s extremely unlikely you’re going to see that here.

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And yet people will have alts.

Just because you want something isn’t a reason to change classic. The stated goal is as authentic as possible

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Well, “Vanilla” lasted only a couple years. I could totally see growth over time, maybe rebirths through something like seasons, which Blizzard could facilitate or – get this – the community could come up with something like a guild who decides they are all rolling new toons on a different server on such and such a date and there will be no transfer of gold or gear or whatever to that server and Blizzard doesn’t need to do anything to make that happen.

There have to be a hundred other ways to recreate some of these things, like rapid growth of “new” players to the game.

In any case, I think it will be a good 2-3 years at least. Who knows what happens after that. At that point the #nochanges crowd might have mellowed if things get the way many predict and go all stasis/rot on us.