I started playing WoW during Cataclysm.
I have no rose-colored glasses for vanilla. This is my first time experiencing it.
I’ve had more fun in Classic these past few days than I had all year in BFA. Even with the downgraded graphics and missing quality-of-life features. It’s so much more fun.
But why?
Classic feels very different. It feels like an RPG that is full of adventurers controlled by real, living people. Leveling is an interesting and exciting process of discovery. (As opposed to a long, tedious chore that must be grinded out before the “real game” begins.) Money has actual value since it is required to buy class abilities. Every silver piece counts. Quests often feel like important jobs rather than mindless busywork. It all comes together to be a vastly superior game experience.
I know this is controversial and everybody’s arguing about it. All I can really add to the discussion is that I’m having a lot of fun in Classic. And this is my first time experiencing it, so nostalgia is not a factor in my enjoyment.
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You’re not wrong. I came into WoW with WoD and I tried Classic just for kicks. I actually really like the pace of the game and focus on exploration and adventure rather than the focus on combat and the rush for end game.
But I grew up on RPGs like Dragon Warrior and such. So maybe I’m partial to slower games. But now people have the option to Classic and retail. So everyone wins.
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I don’t see anyone really arguing about what version they are or aren’t playing. Everyone is entitled to their opinions.
And you know people are going to say to post this in the classic section and so on and so on.
Come back in 6 months. its been like 2 or 3 days.
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You like it because it’s new to you. I played it vanilla; I never want to play vanilla again lol.
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Current WOW has it good and bad things same as Classic, it a individual’s opinion which is better.
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I like both of them and play both but Classic is closer to an RPG than retail is.
The world draws you in so much more and forces you to participate in it.
Retail is closer to an ARPG than an RPG imo. At least at end game.
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Oh look, another classic thread, that wasn’t posted in the classic forums.
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I agree with part of that. As RPG as people claim Classic is you can still level from 1-60 without speaking to a single person. It still doesn’t force player interaction in any way. If you don’t care to do the elite quests you can just skip them and move to the next zone.
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Your right we should get a retail discussion thread going since general discussion is supposed to be about all things wow related 
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6 months is a long time for nostalgia to last.
personally I think it’s the lack of crz and sharding. it makes it actually feel like a community.
There’s plenty of community to be had, if you actually want community in BFA, people would just rather blame CRZ and Sharding for their social issues than actually try to do something about it.
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Look guys, this new thing they just got into like a day ago that’s been hyped for 2 years is better than the thing they’re tired of. Where’s your sense of adventure, bruh? I fought a rat with a candle on his head to open a mine after waiting in a literal line of people to do the same thing. Well it’s more accurate to say the game fought him for me while I didn’t have any buttons to press, but that’s adventure bruhs!
Idk what this non-adventure garbage they have on retail is. Ending a witch coven that’s conquered a third of a nation’s civilization has nothing on that time I harvested boar meat to make a pie. ADVENTURE.
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For you, nostalgia may not be the deciding factor. Obviously its not the deciding factor for everyone. But you can’t say that it wasn’t Blizzards primary aim in the decision to re-release Vanilla WoW as “WoW Classic”
They know that Nostalgia is a powerful tool. And that was their focus. And for those who never experienced, it should be eye opening and interesting.
There’s nothing wrong with the idea that both can co-exist.
The problem with why these threads are getting people grumpy at an extremely fast rate is manifold.
Blizzard created a Classic GD Forum. By logic, since there is a Classic GD and a normal GD, that implies that Classic GD is supposed to fill the same role GD does, but it was meant also for Classic Players to post there. Straight forward logic. And many are refusing to use it as intended.
That’s annoying a lot of people.
Then there is a lot of “neenerisms” going on about “we won, you lost, you suck” which comes across as really immature. This is annoying a lot of people.
Then of course there are the forum trolls, who are of course trolling. This of course is annoying a lot of people.
As a result, the genuine discussions on GD that may have otherwise resulted, are only ending up acting as fuel on the fire.
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go to and rppvp realm and see what crz did.
I’m guessing you won’t cause making statements based on ignorance is totes kewl
Looks over at the Argent-dawn / The Scryers merged server
What?
You realized AD and The scryers are one server, and the Scryers is an RP-PVP server right…? Maybe you didn’t. I’m going to assume you didn’t, otherwise your statement would have been laughable.
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Classic has been hyped out the wazoo before release. Crowds of old wow players who left the game, or current wow players looking for something new jumped on the hype train. Sure not every player is there for nostalgia, as much as myself or others might suggest in frustration. But a huge number are there for nostalgia, others are there because its “hopping” “lit” the place to be. The drinks are terrible, the food is bad, but it is where the party is at right now. The hype train is only 2-3 days into release and people just beginning the game are calling it the second coming of jesus. Just look at the number of people that continued lining up for apple products even when they were definitively inferior to Android products. The excitement of a crowd has a way of blinding people to the obvious.
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WoD was seriously hyped. Think about how much they spent on advertising alone.
The thing is, I’ve been burned too many times by the hype engine and I try not to listen to them anymore. Because I know the more you hype something, the harder the game will fail to live up to expectations. And the companies refuse to understand that hype engines are defeatist in nature. The bigger they push the new game as “the next magmum opus” the more it’ll fail when its nothing more than maybe 20 seconds of what COULD, with serious revision, be a magmum opus.