0%.
90% of people that bothered trying it out won’t make it past the first month with how boring the quests are, how tedious the grind, how little end game content there is. Classic only purpose is to show the masses how incredible BFA is compared to it.
Classic builds a world. BFA is “do your chores”.
Classic is boring while BfA is fun to play. Which makes a better video game?
How so? BC is where the overarching story narrative began to build worlds. Classic was a bunch of fractured zone stories with very little connecting them.
The likelihood that Classic will overtake Live is very low. If for no other reason than Classic requiring far more effort in the short term, and a very limited future long term.
Thanks for repeating literally the last 15 threads. We needed yet another one on it.
I could for about two months, then the real forum screaming begins.
Classic “plateaus/ends.” A lot of fans don’t realize this. They are having fun now, at low level. They see a different community now, at low level. For most of the people playing it, things are not serious business yet.
Having to eventually raid will ruin it for most players. Even ones from Vanilla, who were in ideal raiding guilds where things worked out, might not have that perfect situation again; People don’t know how rare that was. They don’t realize how many people had to be in a guild, for it to field 40 people at a raid. They don’t realize how you had to make EVERY SINGLE RAID, three or more nights a week, for five hours a night, to get DKP to then be able to bid on something that the kids who always showed up would otherwise get. It was like a full time job, so the people without those had the advantage (or the ones who had a set work schedule, during the day.)
I know exactly what Classic is/Vanilla was. The one thing I won’t be doing is raiding. So for gear acquisition, I’ll be doing battlegrounds for the rare/epic set at some point (on a hunter.) I did that in BC, when the season one set was from regular battleground honor; It was actually pretty fun! It is the one thing I never did in Classic, while it is on my time and the only auto-queue content in Classic (since no LFR LFG.)
I liked Legion. I thought it was the best expansion yet (even better than Vanilla, way better in fact.) But would I play Legion forever, if that was all this character had? Well, no. I’d plateau, as I did before Legion ended, since I don’t raid. So near the end I had all the legendarys, and had some really great pieces from greater invasion bosses. Eventually, I would have got as good as I could get, with my playstyle. At that point, as fun as Legion was I’d still be “done.” I’d probably get bored at it and not feel like playing it for a year more, or forever.
That is the main problem with Classic. People will plateau, then stagnate. There wasn’t that much to the game. It wasn’t mount/pet/mog collection central. Some people won’t raid at all, some will plateau with MC, some with BWL, etc. Sure, they’ll have fun walking around with the complete BWL set, but then what? “Retirement”, in an MMORPG, is just not something that most people want to play. Nor will everyone just want to play Classic for years, making alt after alt.
Even for the only thing I did not do in Classic, it is limited. I’ll do battlegrounds, getting the rare BG set; That was not really “hard”, just took time. I’ll try to get the epic set, possibly not being able to. So I’ll reach a point where I won’t be able to complete the Epic set, or where I can. In either case, since I don’t want to raid again, Classic will then “end.”
The same world, with many more complex additions, is also in BFA.
You also had chores to do in Classic, only they were the same chores with 40 people and banging your head against a brick wall.
Its been what… 2 weeks? 3?
Hard to believe classic will keep subs/log-ins up at this level 6 months from now, let alone a year… or 2, or longer.
Lets see what people are playing in January, next June, and then lets talk about Classic overtaking retail…
This doesn’t apply to the game whatsoever. Not sure this would apply to whose playing and who is just watching streamers play.
Classic you do basically the same you grind and do your quests get to level 60 grind those dungeons then rinse and repeat. If you are feeling that BfA has become chores then I think it’s time that you take a break from playing and assess yourself.
By using the Classic Fanboy logic WOD shouldve had like 50 million subs by the end of the expansion.
Ironically i feel classic offers more, but thats just my opinion
Nope. Zero end game. Once the initial glut of players play through it will be a ghost town.
It probably does at the moment, but it’s not going to last. Basing off what I witnessed for when OSRS first came out.
I’d agree with you but really only by perception.
In classic the gameplay loop is the same, but because it sucks aaaaaas heck to do said loop by yourself, you are likely to do said loop with friends which makes it more fun which then makes it seem less boring.
Whereas in BfA, you’re expected to do said loop alone (because of the way systems work) so you will just do them alone and easily realize how much it sucks.
The good thing Classic has is not all this toxic back and forth between players, the worst thing about BfA is the community.
yes this makes sense to me
100% unlikely. Iike classic as well but it makes me appreciate retail.
Well you are entitled to your opinions and so am I. So I can tell you this much once you hit that level cap and the last raid of Classic is released then are you going to have the same opinion as you did before? The content the dungeons and raid will end sure ain’t going be more to offer after that.
ill probably level another hero, locks and warriors look like a lot of fun
I see no issue with that you can level whatever you want to. You can only repeat the content so many times and then what?