Is Classic WoW Dead Now?

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That is a stupid policy. It only guarantees that those games never recover and perform better. They should be looking at why and what it would take to turn them around.

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Bornakk has been posting in the classic forums, so I doubt that development for classic has been stopped, or going to be stopped, any time soon.

Warcraft is sort of like an umbrella for the property, so wow would fall under that mention in the new release.

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Maybe not. But there’s no way to know now is there. If the game is just not appealing, isn’t pulling the plug better than wasting ressources?

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It’s Activision forcing Blizzard to adopt it’s Profit driven model. There was a interview with Kottick a few years ago where he was very Frank in saying that if it’s not generating enough profit, they don’t want to keep it around

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There is a saying “Throwing good money after bad”. Eventually you have to realize that you are wasting money trying to turn a project around and have to move on.

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Because we all know every article on the internet to be published ever is always the super mega ultra truthful truth factsauce well-researched not hack journalistic reliable elite pro writer source citing peer-reviewed journal quality fact checked best ever fact-filled fact factory of facts.

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I’m not playing armchair moderator or on a high horse, I’ve rode a horse before and he was super aggressive so no thanks on that I’m staying low to the ground.

They made Classic forums for a reason, to keep classic-related discussions in the part of the Classic forums. It’s there for a reason but by all means, feel free to throw some more unnecessary remarks of my few words that you obviously feel the need to play the big boy around here…

Let’s all give him a round of applause… crowd goes wild :rofl:

:shushing_face:

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It will be better than retail, so theres that.

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No evidence if that yet. Especially if they add group finder and other changes they were talking about. Remeber J. Allen Brack was pretty much against releasing classic to begin with

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J. Allen Brack is going to become J. Allen Broke if he doesn’t watch his culling tactics.

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Yeah, it was funny how that stance changed mighty quickly, and the irony of Brack presenting Classic news was kind of funny.

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:roll_eyes:

Because we all know sky is falling, lack of knowledge, panicky, tossing blame and making bad assumptions posts are so much better.

Keep Metzen’s words in mind, because this is why people are getting tired of these types of threads:

Flailing about the apocalypse doesn’t help. Positivity and faith in the long run actually DO help. A community that doesn’t support each other won’t last. Be positive for each other. Be constructive. Anger just breeds anger. I think Yoda said that once…

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The primary reason for Classic’s existence is IP protection. They’ve dedicated a specific, relatively small team to it for that purpose. It’s not going to be cut.

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Plus, if they were smart, they would use it as a litmus test to see where modern WoW lost some magic and feed that data back into their main development cycle.

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Metzen is gone , pushed out by Activision

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:roll_eyes: Someone else who makes stuff up and doesn’t know the facts.

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Wow IS one of their biggest cash cows (In the Warcraft series anyway) and they made clear that it is a priority to them. This extends to it’s predecessor. Which is one of the most anticipated (and biggest) releases. Reality is, that activision NEEDS to get classic out. Most of all now. If not for the cash from subs that it will garner, then from the serious morale that it will give players (and devs).
Sometimes, you don’t need another cash cow- sometimes you need something that will just net you a serious amount of positivity. Sure, activision might kick in a lot of teeth before then but what better way to smooth it all over, like nothing ever happened?

So I don’t believe there is anything to worry about in regards to classic.

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Most of the people who got fired were from marketing, sales and some community managers. I read Blizzard is hiring more developers so Classic is safe.

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Metzen is gone so is Blizzard… :frowning_face:

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:face_with_raised_eyebrow:

You people really do thrive on drama, don’t you?

I’m out. If I roll my eyes anyore at this thread, the lack of info and the amount of sky is falling drama, I’ll end up with a migraine.

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