Sure. If you squint, and don’t really think long about it. And consider “making fun of people that don’t like classic” as retail talk. You are absolutely right.
“playing Classic Beta more than retail”
weird, seems like they mentioned both versions of the game. sorry it wasnt in the manner you wanted it to be, but it is what it is.
I still stand by my original assertion that you should probably just avoid classic vs retail related threads, because they really seem to hit a sore spot for you. Why purposely make yourself unhappy?
Don’t know of any anti classic people, but here’s where I stand.
It appears that Blizzard’s trying to sell a product that people are seemingly willing to buy, even though it’s way past its expiration date.
I feel they should have made it free to play like Starcraft.
So if I go to the Classic forums, insult Classic and the fanbase it’s alright so long as I say “playing BfA more than Classic Beta,” right?
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You missed a crucial point. In classic the whole world had danger in it, and everything you did in classic to progress your character mattered. Now in BFA you are a walking god of death and destruction that annihilates anything encountered in the world outside of instanced content. Blizzard have put themselves in a weird place where they need the reward structure to keep players but have designed the players need for the reward structure
In the world out of the game. This is why classic will systematically destroy bfa when it comes out. Even though people can’t intellectually dissect the philosophical differences between the two games. One design IS better than the other. If people aren’t intelligent enough to see it, they will definitely feel it when they play it.
It has more meaning then doing outdated content in Classic.
I mean old runescape dominates retail runescape so…
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Content isn’t outdated if there’s people playing it or if it’s current, a mistake retail makes every expansion when it makes previous content not matter.
Actually you better read it again, because I never said people were offended by it. I said it serves no point other then to rile up. THAT is what makes it trolling.
We won’t know until months after Classic is released.
Well she is also pretending my post said something I did not say. It is not about people being offended, it is about making statements that only exist to rile people up.
I then say that even if you want to argue about that statement only existing to do that, it doesn’t mean people who disagree are false reporting.
Lol you will not be “completing” Classic in 2 or 3 months.
Casuals will probably be hitting max leveling in 2 or 3 months. GL getting gear funneled into your toon in a 40 man raid.
OSRS is on mobile, V3 is not. That is opening one version up to a market far larger then the other. I never played V3, but I tried OSRS on my phone (didn’t get into it).
Revisit this in December or January.
We are in the hype phase of a new xpac (classic) but with nothing to pre-order.
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I don’t think you are going to be seeing as many casuals playing classic as you seem to think. Even if they try it I highly doubt there are going to be giving it 2-3 months just to level. Also most likely not doing 40 man raids…
Classic required more time and way more commitment to do anything then BfA does.
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I like to point to oldschool Runescape’s massive success
It’s a 2007 version of Runescape that is sitting at around 50k average players with 100k peaks while Runescape 3 (the current Runescape) is sitting at 20k players average with peaks of 26k - 30k players
There were a ton of people going “old runescape is just nostalgia, you’ll quit within the week!”
Years later oldschool runescape is growing exponentially and holds the majority of the player base while Runescape 3 has been on the decline for years, losing more than 50% of its player base since ~2013
Now I’m not saying classic is going to overtake modern WoW, but I feel its safe to say that not everything is jut “nostalgia” and “rose tinted goggles”. Maybe for some people, but not everyone shares that sentiment.
Some people just genuinely like how the older version of a game was designed and would prefer to stick with that version.
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Classic does require more time and more commitment than BFA, but it is still a more casual game.
The hardest part of 40 man raids were getting 40 ppl together. The mechanics of Classic bosses were a snorefest.
This is a direct contradiction.
I guess your definition of casual differs from mine, and that’s okay.
This is what is called “lying by omission”.
OSRS is f2p, RS3 has a monthly fee.
OSRS is on mobile devices, RS3 is not.
Also OSRS in not “growing exponentially”.
http://www.misplaceditems.com/rs_tools/graph/?display=max&interval=month&total=1
Look at the population graph and can you guess when OSRS when F2P? How about when it went mobile?
If your answer on F2P is March 2015, then you are correct.
If your answer to going mobile is October 2018, then you are correct.
It was doing horrible before that and only surpassed RS3 after it went F2P.
Edit: Also look at OSRS after 3 months. It had a third of it’s original players. It barely increased until it went F2P.