If youâre here to rage and point fingers at people wanting Classic+, and write them off as retail tourists, feel free to scroll down and post. This post isnât meant to change the mind of those who are most ignorant, but to give perspective to people who are towards the middle.
Classic+ is adding new content to the base game while keeping the core philosophies of what makes classic a great game. This is done in the form of unique expansions tailored to classic, or just new quests and content for people to complete in the form of patches.
- Private servers did fine for years, Classic will be no different.
The top private server only had 10k active players, a fraction of what retail and Classic has now. Weâre talking about a 95% sub drop-off if we revert to that kind of population. Blizzard is a corporation with profit in mind, they will shut down the servers once the costs outweigh the revenue. The employee wages/benefits and server upkeep outpaces any pserver fan project in expenses by a large margin. If you donât believe this, research how much it costs to maintain a server as a professional company. It is very different from a fan hosting it.
- Classic is meant to be a âmuseumâ or âtime capsule.â
No, Classic was developed for over a year with the sole purpose of making money, and bringing back a lot of subs. The people behind the project are passionate, but at the end of the day the point was not to create a museum, it was to create another cash cow. Not developing more content would severely limit the flow of cash.
- Blizzard canât be trusted, they will screw it up and ruin Classic+. (This is how we got retail!)
The safest assumption is that Classic+ will be its own server separate than the Vanilla museum server, so your vanilla experience isnât in danger at all. Secondly, itâs reductive to assume you know Blizzardâs intentions or goals in terms of game design. They know the demographics of their Classic community (more hardcore) and will cater new content to the new community, much like any other company. (So no LFG, flying at level 40, heirlooms, etc.) The fact that Blizz acted quickly to disable the LFG addon before launch should clue you in to how they intend to support the vanilla community going forward, so no, Blizz is not going to make âanother retail.â That already exists.
- Classic+ does exist, itâs called retail. Just go back!
Wrong on multiple levels, retail is entirely different in terms of difficulty and design to classic, and Vanilla only content can be geared to fit within the hardcore nature of old school WoW. Vanilla only xpacs are not likely, but easily implemented content like new quests wouldnât take up much of Blizzâs R&D and keep the game fresh. Old school runescape (OSRS) is a prime example of this and is still successful to this day, even INCREASING their numbers after adding new content.
- Iâm happy with Classic, we donât need new content.
Itâs extremely unlikely that Blizz will force Classic+ will be the only option, the true Vanilla server will be available for anyone who wants to experience it. New content on a separate server shouldnât bother you! You can be safe knowing your experience wonât be impacted in any way. For the rest of us, Vanilla is likely to slowly die as you cannot expect people to be re-running Ony, MC, and Naxx for years and years while paying 15 dollars a month. People will eventually bore of Classic and Blizz isnât likely to let those 15$ a month subscribers slip through their fingers.
- Blizz finally gave us Classic and now you want more.
If Vanilla remains the way it is, people will eventually bore of the same quests, dungeons, and raids and cancel their sub. By innovating and trying to grow support for a movement to innovate the Classic experience and add more, we are actually helping Blizzard as itâs the only way to keep players interested and subbed. This isnât about entitlement, this is about keeping the foundations of WoW - hardcore, tight knit community and an interconnected world like an MMORPG should be- alive while still allowing new content to be added for the playerbaseâs enjoyment.
- You just want them to design YOUR ideal game!
Ask yourself why you love classic in comparison to retail. I donât have to tell you why I do, because we probably have the same list. This has nothing to do with not wanting content, and everything to do with the fact that it is an entirely different game with a different set of ideals.
We love classic just as much as you do. If we didnât, we would go back to retail. But weâre here to stay, and we hope that this game is able to flourish and grow and that you guys are able to see why it is important to grow with us. If there can be separate TBC servers, there can be seperate Classic+ servers.