Lmfao why would anyone want to play on a dead server
All but like 3 servers are dead. Community in Classic is just booming.
And? Your point?
Try to get a group going organically obviously
It’s not that hard with 30,000 people around
Most people are so psychologically/emotionally invested in these systems that they cannot see them for what they are.
So without the benefit of a megaserver, lets see how everyone else is enjoying that aspect of the game
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If you want me to criticize Blizzard, then we can start a whole new thread and talk about server populations/merging/etc.
To me that is an entirely different subject, and mind you still a conversation worth having, but you can’t link it to the discussion of RDF.
Ultimately, but the success of the expansion is part of that. Struggling MMO’s aren’t much fun. I do think a decision like this could impact on the bottom line. Not so much early on - where it didn’t have the feature anyway. But later in the expansion where you’d expect an influx of a certain type of player that want to relive their favourite xpac. It’s going to feel very unfamiliar to them and the experience they remember.
I also don’t think there’s genuinely much scope in this idea of a long term “classic style” brand that they seem to be shooting for. Old content is old content and there’s only so long they can ride it for. It’s a short term project almost be definition.
Personally I don’t think the “Classic brand” has much legs beyond WoTLKC and so I am not convinced in their efforts to reinvent Classic as a “Classicfication” of later content. They should be aiming more for authenticity rather than try to Vanillaize WoTLK.
On personal note, I have friends that have been holding out for mid/late WoTLKC as that’s where they came in and what they want to play. It’s not my preference but I get it’s theirs. I think it’s a bit of a middle finger to that player-base to simply omit the feature. A feature that is pretty key to how a lot of people experienced the original game (a lot of people left WoTLC at ToC/ICC and a lot of people joined there too). My personal dislike of the feature doesn’t mean it’s a fair trade to remove it.
WoTLK was the first time in WoWs history that there was player churn, so recreating it was always going to be a difficult venture. It’s a much more complicated and diverse range of players interested in it than TBC and Vanilla had.
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Its not Blizzards fault though, they do not force players to be transient. Blizzard didnt kill the community, the community killed itself.
Oh man… look you are in the MINORITY because it is LESS POPULAR to play on dead servers… why should the game be altered to pander to you?
The anti lfders are quite obviously the minority. You can live in delusion though if you want, its your right afterall
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It’s more that the negatives of LFD are almost entirely subjective and extremely over blown because LFD is a convenient target and people are too lazy to look at real root causes for the problems they blame on LFD.
Plus a lot of people are in situations where the benefits of LFD greatly outweight the actual negatives of it. Like if someone is barely getting any dungeons now they can deal with the occasional trolling in LFD if it means they can actually run dungeons.
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Yeah.
Even if the #somechanges were to be positive, it contradicts the concept of authenticity.
You use the mantra of calling something classic or retail wherever it suits the narrative…
Like the few “remove LFR from cata” posts that are starting to pop out. Exactly how the “remove LFD” posts started fairly early in BC; seemingly insignificant then, but look where it led to.
Lollipop lollipop
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Hm, we might have to agree to disagree then.
Personally I could see some real value coming out of the experiment (if we could call it that).
It could really tell us more about if a modern day “old style” MMORPG is still possible, without the millions of dollars at risk used to make something completely new, using that as the primary goalpost (New World as the latest facepalm in that category).
Some people miss that style of MMO, and think there should be a market for it. If these kinds of experiments pan out, it could be the (re)birth of that “style” of MMO and lead to newer developments or different franchises that scratch that “classic” algorithm for those who feel like they’ve run out of games/MMOs to enjoy in the current generation.
I look at it as a sort of…live-subject market research.
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Hopefully pantheon rise of the fallen eventually comes out.
We also can’t forget the increasing usage of other places for players to stay in contact that super cede in game. Like discord. Lack of LFD sure didn’t do anything about that in two iterations of classic, yet for some reason people think it will in wrath?
Lol…
Dont worry, Blizzard will create their own in game discord, its kind of like the real discord but a different spin on it. They listened to and heard the community and more than enough are celebrating this idea for them to feel confident in the direction theyve decided to go.
If players found a map exploit in Wintergrasp that lets a certain faction auto win the BG in 3 minutes or less should they change the layout or leave it alone because the exploit existed in original Wrath? Thats what I mean.
Narrative? Im not selling anything.
Classic and retail are two very different things. These are definitely two archetypal symbols. And this is the WoW forums after all.
Is only one group allowed to discuss their preferences or something?