Big problem with this is that the population would be split too thinly. I don’t think there’s enough demand for a classic version of every expac. Historically, interest in wow starting declining during / after wrath. Classic would be the same.
Personally I’ll play classic TBC & Wrath then probably jump ship to another MMO.
Majority of the early information surrounding classic, and opinions held by the community at the time, were being formed by some of the most ignorant, stupidest people you can imagine.
The ‘no changes’ crowed, ‘pvp servers are the authentic experience’, and others have largely disappeared. And rightfully so. They were genuine idiots.
Anyways, you’re wrong. They won’t go to cata. After WOTLK, they’ll start over at classic plus, then tbc plus, then wotlk plus.
Jimmy, is that you? Great speech!
Who said we were never getting TBC Classic? It felt obvious that TBC Classic was going to come out once Classic did so well.
That said I am not arguing that they will stop at WLK. Though it would not surprise me, it also would be no surprise if they continued through at least a few more or did Classic+.
Every expansion existing in it’s own bubble with the ability to progress onward to the next on at will is a tantalizing possibility. While everyone has their own idea of which version of the game is the best I think we can all agree that every expansion is on it’s peak while it is current.
I want to say it has something to do with classic’s playstyle, it ended in wrath. To most people, so to speak, it was appalling and it gradually changed during cata and on word.
But this also depends on what “classic” is, to me, it every expansion to Shadowlands. So having legacy servers, imo, is a good thing. The players will see what has changed over the course of wow’s life time.
I plan to play to the end of TBC and then quit. I don’t have any desire to play wrath or the following expansions again. If they added some new content to Classic or TBC that would interest me past the end of TBC but otherwise don’t really care to play further. This has been my plan since day 1 of Classic. Play all of Vanilla and all of TBC then quit.
Legion is generally regarded as a very good one
Shadowlands has its issues but the basis is strong and the first major patch is looking promising
My theory is they’re planning to gradually open servers for every expansion until they can finally sunset the game and move on to something new
It’s obvious WoW isn’t the same king it was 10 years ago, especially now that it has actual competition. Let people play whatever era they wish for as long as the servers can sustain themselves, and then finally when everyone is all WoW’d out they can shut the game down for good
I don’t know about that! Maybe it is “generally” regarded as good by anyone that is still playing right now, but “generally” among all WoW players, that may be a different story. I personally thought Legion was a flamming bag of poo Blizzard flung at my front door.
“Generally” is most of the people
“You” are not most people
I would just be careful making assumptions like this. For one, you are not the spokesperson for “most of the people”, and you cannot possibly know for certain what “most of the people” feel about the Legion expansion.
Just saying…
I know I’m not the spokesperson. If I was, I’d be saying Legion sucked. I didn’t like it either. In fact it’s what caused me to stop playing the game a few weeks after the Emerald Nightmare released and I didn’t return until 8.3
But I recognize my opinion is the minority, because I’ve seen the general opinion of the expansion
Well, color me suprised! If we were to take an impromptu poll of Classic forum members, I would bet most players would agree with you and I about Legion.
because a majority of Classic players are adamant about the idea “retail bad no matter what!” and refuse to acknowledge anything could possibly be better than their rose-colored glory days
the fact of the matter is, while we may not have official numbers, we have several different websites researching them and that have concluded Retail currently has ~1 million more active players than Classic, at least as far as I’ve looked last about a month ago
Classic did have a big surge at the start, but that quickly fell off as large chunks of players disappeared, quietly admitting that maybe the “glory” days weren’t as glorious as they remembered, and Classic is now primarily populated by bots, people bored of the content lull in retail currently, people just getting ready for TBC, and people whose pride won’t let them admit they were wrong. of course that’s all speculation on my part, but the fact remains that Retail likely has more active players than Classic does currently, and so assuming Classic players are the majority of the playerbase is a bit foolish
You don’t seem to admit that some people do genuinely enjoy Classic and just assume it’s a pride issue. I don’t play Classic as much recently as it’s a content lull until TBC but it’s still been an overall enjoyable experience.
I haven’t played WoW Retail actively since Legion. I have tried to return a few times but just could never remain interested. Classic has managed to keep my interest the entirety of the expansion.
did you just ignore my use of words like “most” and my admittance that all of that part specifically is speculation on my part independent of the statement “most research points to Retail being more populated”?
I feel like people make non-absolute statements to hide behind them when anyone tries to disprove it. Just from personal experience most people I’ve ran with seem to stick around. I keep seeing the same names over and over in Classic. Sure it lost the 1st month craziness but generally speaking those that lasted past that initial surge are still playing.
well, “playing”. one undeniable fact is that Classic is plagued by bots and mage boosters
Yeah I definitely agree on that. Blizzard really needs to crack down on gold buyers and nerf the mage boosting meta. I don’t really consider those the people “playing” WoW Classic though as they aren’t the names that I see. Unless I randomly decide to do a /who on BRD I will never run into those countless rogue bots. Also if we are going to count bots against the active player metric we’d have to do the same for retail which as far as I’ve heard has an even worse botting problem.