I think it’s both ways honestly. People who are ticked about certain things will either deal with it and play, not play at all, or go running back to pservers. It’ll depend on what people’s real breaking point is.
I wouldn’t play if certain things happened, but really obvious things. Stuff like a short time of starting zone sharding, I can live with if I have to.
Been saying for a long time that most of people saying they wouldn’t play because of X are bluffing and will be here regardless. People didn’t wait all of this time just to sit around once it hits.
They may not like it at first but they will play it.
“I won’t play if the subscription isn’t $10.”
“Well I certainly won’t play if the subscriptions are linked. That’s dumb.”
“Ok I’m totally not going to play if everything is 1.12. I want Vanilla.”
“Ok…I’m seriously not going to play now with 1.12 AV.”
“You’re going to lose my $15 if you keep sharding in the starting zones.”
“I can’t believe Blizzard doesn’t want my money. Lol, 1.12 items. What a joke. See ya.”
I honestly do believe there is people who think private servers are the correct version and wont play simply because that. Even though private servers make changes to the game as well.
There are some private server players who cannot afford the $15 subscription, maybe a child or what not. And then trash Classic because it is locked behind a subscription.
They have no choice. Only Blizzard has the exact data for a lot of things that pservers guess at.
Thats my thing… there are things on private servers that are completely unverifiable. On top of that almost every private server I have seen has implemented content in different ways… K1 for example had naxx patch items on the loot tables in dungeons before BWL even came out… some servers didnt have DHK’s, SOME OF THEM LET YOU BUY AND SELL CHARACTERS.
I admire your conviction. I cannot imagine having to endure a ghost town private server…
Stick to your guns man. Stay strong!
Have fun rolling a tank on every private server post classic
Good question. Throughout WoW’s history, especially in recent years, I’ve asked myself “why would Blizzard do X” so many times, giving them the benefit of the doubt, only to be crushed by disappointment once again.
It’s really easy to give credence to that belief when changes are already being made. It’d be a lot easier to discredit people worrying about changes if Blizzard actually made no changes.
They’ve already made some changes. What’s to say they won’t make others? They’re already “considering” sharding, which is Blizzard-speak for they’ve already added it.
I didn’t wait all of this time just to get something that isn’t Classic.
Just because you don’t care doesn’t mean others don’t.
It was $15 in vanilla.
More stuff for less. Cross-game promotion is smart. Doesn’t affect Classic in any way.
1.12 is vanilla.
It’s a bummer, but they chose 1.12 as the patch to use, so that includes all of the good and bad.
I explained in another thread that using patch 1.12 makes sense. It’s the last patch of vanilla, so instead of people arguing over which patch is best, they can just say “we don’t really care which is the best; that’s subjective. Instead, we just chose the last version.”
Then the only argument they have to deal with is “they should’ve chose the first patch instead of the last,” which few people would advocate for, if any.
There is a valid argument to be made for sharding in starting zones, especially during the launch.
If they keep sharding there, it wouldn’t make much sense. If they add sharding to capitals, it wouldn’t make any sense.
If I see sharding in Ironforge, I’m just alt+F4ing right then and there. Seeing really populated major cities was one of the great things about vanilla.
They chose 1.12 as the patch to use. Of course they’d have 1.12 items.
It really depends on the severity of the changes.
I would play on a private server that might have less than exactly accurate data for raid bosses (4m HP instead of 3,850,000).
I wouldn’t play on a private server that starts you at 60, gives you full BiS, has custom NPCs, dungeons/raids, etc.
I would play Classic with color blind mode.
I wouldn’t play Classic with guild banks.
Yep. If we had the exact data… say, copied from Classic… and no changes, some private servers would actually be MORE accurate than official Blizzard servers.
Me either. Good thing it’s not a ghost town. At the very least, it doesn’t feel that way because it doesn’t have sharding.
Majority of the ppl who say they wont will definitely play. People show out thinking their 15 bucks will make blizz bend to their individual will. Then reality sinks in for them, their 15 bucks isnt special. Never see them again on forums cause they are to busy playing the game.
I admire your ability to consider those roll-backy, exploitable, poorly scripted, glitched out, guessworked, cash grabbin’, shadily managed, inaccurate proc-ratey, 10 minute Lupos spawny (and on and on and on) private servers better than a Blizz quality/maintained server with starter zone sharding.
Again, I admire your conviction and hope you stick to your guns. You have a warriors spirit.
Yeah, Brokenwind will be there.
When you don’t have much of a position of leverage, you use what you can. “Use 1.12 and you can kiss my $0.50 a day goodbye.”
Blizzard counting their billions: “You said something?”
If they start easing the sharding and such into the zones, I’ll definitely walk.
Been there. Done that. Got the “My guild died” tee shirt.
They’re going to be there in the starter zones. If they ‘ease’ them into high level zones, everyone will walk and they know it.
i think most people will at least make a character since it’s included with the sub
whether or not they’ll play it to max level thats another story tho
Well i pride myself on being a man of my word ever since i was a little kid, I think I’ve done some borderline insane things to keep myself to that, more then willing to put myself in harms way to keep it so.
So yea i’ll probably quit some videogame if i say i will, My self image is worth more then the Joy i get off of wow sadly, but it depends on the change, and i’m honestly not all that unreasonable so play it by ear.
Though in all honestly, i think a lot of people who say they’re gonna quit are just venting. Maybe they won’t play it for a few months, but they may think about it and try again.
Depends if I feel as the QoL matches current WoW or sharding is in way to much.
It’s will take about 2 to 3 months to know. For me at least.
Then yes I will walk away.
I don’t think roll-backs are exclusive to private servers.
Exploits definitely aren’t exclusive to private servers.
Poorly scripted is questionable. At least when Classic comes out, they can more accurately script encounters to represent vanilla, since Blizzard is supposedly using the old data.
Glitched out is definitely Blizz-like. Very true to the vanilla experience. But since you weren’t very specific about what you mean by “glitched out,” I can’t really comment.
Guessworked is true, but that won’t be a problem anymore with Classic. They can just copy Classic’s data, since it’s supposed to be the same data from vanilla.
Cash grabbin’ in nonsense. They don’t accept any money. If anything, Blizzard is cash grabbin’. Heard of the in-game store?
Shadily managed is true, which is sort of why I wanted Classic so badly. If it’s not Classic, though, I’d rather take shadily managed. If I ask for vanilla ice cream, I don’t want Neapolitan. Just because it has vanilla in it doesn’t make it vanilla.
Inaccurate proc-ratey is fair, but you already covered that with guessworked.
Then you just repeat yourself.
Yep. If I wanted sharding, I’d play BfA.
I’m not subbed, though. Whether I sub remains to be seen.
If Blizzard’s “temporary” solution of sharding is truly temporary, that seems like they were being true to their word.
“I won’t play if there is sharding.”
sharding exists
User doesn’t play
Sharding is removed
User plays
im neither subbed nor plans to sub for classic
but if they release more intriguing content in bfa i would sub again