If you don't like RDF, you can not use it. RDF will not be the retail/cata decline!

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@Daysgoneby-atiesh

i love how this small percentage of players, who most assuredly bogged down the forums for YEARS with their “we want vanilla classic” “we want TBCC” disregarding all the people telling them to drop it, its never going to happen, move on… they pushed through and got to play the games they wanted for 3 years.

They didn’t create Classic just because it was asked for non-stop. For almost a decade, fans literally begged Blizzard for “legacy servers” and even at BlizzCon, the convention that was meant to be a celebration of the fans and a special event for the most dedicated among them, the answer was always a smug resounding “No.” The only reason why Classic ever happened was that the private server community grew to such a critical mass that Activision Blizzard’s corporate shareholders could no longer ignore how much potential revenue their company was turning their noses up at.

Classic wasn’t meant to simply bring back old Azeroth just for the sake giving the fans what they wanted. It was to scoop up some of the millions of private server players they had driven away over the years in their scummy Mickey Mouse hands and start charging them a sub fee for the versions of the game they were going to play – with or without Blizzard’s permission.

Make no mistake; Activision Blizzard simply wanted to monetize the gigantic number of players who wanted old versions of the game rather than wasting their resources on sending private investigators to harrass the admins of successful private servers at their doorsteps in the middle of the night.

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@Zaalg-ashkandi

“WoW was so much better before all the conveniences and changes that started in Wrath.”

Meanwhile, Classic Era….crickets

@Zaalg-mankrik

Connected realms? Are you referring to the cross-realm dungeon finder? Because that’s all that Wrath added in that regard. And there were cross-realm bgs since Vanilla.

I think both those additions were terrible, btw. The last time I really cared about pvp was before patch 1.12 after which point pvp just became about killing and fighting alongside strangers. And the dungeon finder in Wrath destroyed the pve community that LFR finished off in the next expansion. But sadly it’ll be in Wrath since they just use the last patch and every system that existed at the end of the expansion. But out in the open world at least it’s just you and your fellow server players.

@Zaalg-mankrik

No, no Classic should be run just like Retail, because WoW becoming a lobby game of strangers worked out so well the first time.

@Zaalg-mankrik

Originally the game kind of forced you to be social. You had to group up. You had to make friends. And Blizzard removed all that over the years. Starting really with the Dungeon Finder in Wrath.

WoW just became a lobby game where you queue up for things, join random strangers, do your thing, and move on. Never see or talk to them again. There’s literally no reason to communicate with anyone outside of Mythics. Other players might as well be bots. I don’t know how anyone calls WoW an mmorpg anymore. They’ve completely forsaken the mmo audience.

And it was sad to see that same warped audience infect Classic. Especially after TBC’s boost, which brought them in even bigger droves. They treat it like Retail. Just look at the forums. I guess that was inevitable. The community makes an mmo, and the community is nothing like it was back in the day. And it’s the devs’ fault for the direction they took this game. But it is what it is and it’s not going to change.

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