there are plenty of people who do want to play that game to this day and are actively playing now.
you are trying to speak for a whole lot of people that dont want you to speak for them.
i will tell you that i have consumed alot of streams / youtube/ forums and can say for sure that alot of peoples idea of classic + was the same era design with mild rebalancing and new raids and zones and quests.
you dont understand cause youre a gimme gimme gimme now type of person and dont get how good delayed gratification can be .
No those people donāt exist anymore. They are older, have families, jobs, or just donāt want to have their time wasted like it was when they were in their 20ās. They want to log into a game for 1 hour and accomplish something.
They want to mail stuff between alts get a few levels and do a dungeon in a hour and it should be something they can do. That is the Classic game WoW players are looking for.
Classic feel with modern QoL so itās worth playing and it values your time. Itās really weird that people want some badge of honor for having a game waste their time. Itās just BAD design. Itās bad for the game and itās players. Period!
You are not only wrong on design but have some distortion in your thoughts on what is actually rewarding.
of course someone like you would claim i have a distortion in my thoughts cause you cant understand what earning things through trials and tedium and hard times actually is.
youre wrong.
but im done arguing with someone who cant understand the value of such things.
No one wants this in a video game in 2024. Life already has itās challenges and people want to log in for an hour and have FUN! They want to play the game and not have their time wasted.
Again itās super weird that the 1% think itās a medal of honor for surviving bad game design and having their time wasted. Itās not. Itās just bad design. Itās not something to be proud of and you didnāt earn anything. You just foolishly accepted bad design.
Please for the love of everything that is holy make 40-yard health bars (name plates) so tired of tab targeting not tabbing to the right damn targetā¦
Classic really didnāt hit itās stride till Wrath when they added good MMO features. Thatās why Wrath was the pinnacle of WoW. SOD is Classic + which is about New ideas, New content, New Class design and adding in QoL that people look for in an MMO.
If you want antiquated bad MMO design there is Vanilla for anyone who wants to play that. Classic/SOD isnāt that game though. No reason to keep bad design in a new game and you canāt justify it.
The best Classic feature ever added into an MMO was RDF. QoL like portals, Que from anywhere just made WoW a better MMO because players got to enjoy their play time. Imagine that.
With that said hopefully next phase they get SOD where it needs to be and just like last phase this one is skippable.
