So a pserver with insane server caps and insane respawn rates and increased drop rates for quests??? U will never get 2006 back. Play what you feel is better but both are destructive.
Nope.
I donât want 2006; I want Classic. Iâm not asking for a time machine; Iâm just asking for the version of the game I enjoyed the most.
My expectation is about 10% make it past level 20 in the first few weeks.
lol. So many shut down or changed due to shady management. Cash grabbinâ practices. A few currently have queue dodging shops and purchasable w/e. Easily researched on the internet.
Guessworked is true, but that wonât be a problem anymore with Classic. They can just copy Classicâs data, since itâs supposed to be the same data from vanilla.
The âemulatorâ loophole will be harder to use with an active version of the content available. Good luck with those C&Dâs, amirite?
Glitched out is definitely Blizz-like. Very true to the vanilla experience. But since you werenât very specific about what you mean by âglitched out,â I canât really comment.
I lumped buggy and glitchy into âglitched out.â Backstab from the front and countless more. Iâve no interest going through the 1000âs of issues. Their bug forums are so many pages long⌠Truly garbage servers, in every measurable way.
Those servers are so horribly inaccurate and unstable (to me) that if the company needs to use starter zone sharding -for whatever reason- to justify their making a Blizz quality/maintained server, I couldnât care less.
But clearly you care. Again, I hope you have the conviction to follow through with your word.
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Meh, outrage just reads passion to me sometimes case by case.
Iâm pretty sure most of them will still play, and if not⌠well more copper nodes for me, yay!
lol. Those servers you promise to return to are so far from the âversion you enjoyed mostâ that isnât hardly even the same game.
Yet another private server refugee, looking for Blizz to make Classic as similar to their private server as possible⌠trying to mask their reasoning behind easily countered opinions and chicken little-esque prophecies of doom.
Some will, some wonât. It could depend on the severity of the change for them. It could depend on whether there are other aspects they consider worth playing. Some use âI quitâ (or, in this case, I wonât play) as a soft threat hoping it will convince someone to change plans.
Me? I tend to stick by my word, but I also tend to not be as reactionary. So they use temporary sharding in the starting areas - I say Iâll wait a month before I play, and thatâs easy enough to do. Theyâd have to completely screw something up for me to not play, and really at that level Iâd be securing my accounts and uninstalling the games, then uninstalling the Blizzard launcher and moving on. I didnât even know about WoD, which shows how completely I walked away after quitting early MoP.
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True lets hope they do, you and I and many others are all for server queues. Just release the beast and let the players do their thing. For so long customers want to play an online release the second its installed, kids wont even be able to understand what a server que is. Lets teach pactience in classic day 1 as it will make you a better vanilla player hehe.
I think Fargodeep Mine, GolâBolar Quarry and a few other places people steamrolled through for years will be the deciding factor.
âDid I just die horribly here to low level mobs? For real?â
Theyâre either going to dig it or go back to retail.
Lieutenant Benedict is probably the make or break for the Horde.
Then again, if the no-sharders get their way thereâll be so much tag mobbing that olâ Benedict will die from a thousand cuts before he swings.
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Who cares? Thereâs certain things that will keep me from playing Classic (or quitting Classic). I donât say that as a threat to Blizzard, and it means nothing to me whether random strangers on the internet believe what I say.
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Everyone will play but everyone wonât stay once they realize the grind is REAL.
Oh they will play. Its all that fluster and chest pumping.
And most of them have been pretty silly tbh
For sure, sharding in any state or ⌠wait⌠Youâre a 120 Druid!? BFA player saying he wonât even try classic if a 1-5 zone has sharding and youâre paying for BFA! THE BETRYAL IS REAL
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Are you conflating shady management and cash grabbinâ now?
Also, you seem to acknowledge in this statement that there are many private servers, so perhaps you can also acknowledge there are some that DONâT have any cash grabbing features.
I wouldnât play on a server that takes money. There are plenty of servers that donât. As you say, âeasily researched on the internet.â
Not really, especially if Blizzard implements changes and isnât actually providing the same version of the game.
Theyâve already said theyâre not using the 1.12 client, soâŚ
Was part of vanilla. Hell, itâs still part of retail. Literally.
Many of which would be easily fixed with the Classic data available to them. Many bugs present in private servers were simply true to vanilla. Fixing them would be antithetical to providing an authentic experience. Even Blizzard recognized such.
At least they wonât have sharding.
So is a Classic server with sharding. Thatâs sort of the complaint people have with it.
Some can be, yes. Another reason I was looking forward to Classic, actually.
If itâs only in starter zones, itâs still bad, but at least justifiable. Thereâs a lot of changes that would be justifiable, but still bad.
No, buddy, Iâm asking Blizzard to make Classic as similar to VANILLA as possible.
The whole point of asking Blizzard to make Classic is so weâd have a more accurate vanilla experience than what private servers could ever hope to provide.
However, slightly inaccurate data is a farcry from game features that didnât even exist in vanilla.
Nice strawman. I never made any âprophecies of doom.â I said I personally wouldnât play if sharding is in Classic. You want the irrational fearmongers to exist so badly that youâll just invent them yourself.
Also, how do you âeasily counterâ an opinion? Haha. Are you going to easily counter my favorite ice cream flavor, too?
I can only speak for myself, but itâs not a threat. Itâs just a statement of fact. I donât really expect any change to come from my disapproval of any given feature. Perhaps a large number of people holding a similar opinion might influence change, but thatâs not the purpose.
Itâs more an expression of my own personal desires. I donât want to play a game that has a feature I donât like. I could just as easily say nothing, but that sort of defeats the purpose of being on a forum for Classic Discussion.
As far as Iâm concerned, sharding in Classic is one of those complete screw ups.
I donât think the types of people who say âno changes or I wonât playâ are the types of people who would be surprised to die if they pull several mobs.
The people who would quit over something like that are the ones advocating for change, not the ones opposing it.
As it should be on a server launch.
Exactly.
The grind is one of the big reasons I want Classic.
Some might. I wonât, depending on the change.
I donât play BfA anymore. I quit months ago. I didnât like it.
Also, I said I wonât play Classic if it has sharding, and that I might still play if sharding is limited to starter zones:
âIf itâs added âtemporarily,â I wonât play until itâs removed. If itâs only added in certain zones, Iâll probably just never go to those zones (or get out of them ASAP).â
That was not the âauthentic Vanilla experienceâ. Most people died repeatedly on Benedict until someone else came along.
I think if you take the time to post on here yer gonna play. When i quit BFA i never bothered to post about it lol. Why would anyone care that iâm not playing a certain game lol. Granted i think they will most likely play for like an hour and go yep just as i figured this game is trash and then post on here againâŚ
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Depends on the change. I canât imagine anyone walking if they surprise us and remove DHKâs on PvP servers, or something. But I can definitely see Classic flopping if players discover sharding in capital cities or something ghastly like that.
It depends on when in vanilla you mean.
During launch, or a year after launch when very few people were still leveling in that area?
I didnât, either, because I had already posted on the forums during the beta. I wonât be posting on the Classic Discussion forums to say âIâm not playing.â I just wonât play.
Because itâs a subscription based MMO and you playing their game is how they make money.
Why would they remove DHKs, though? They were in vanilla.
I donât think it will flop because of that. I just donât think the audience theyâre trying to cater to with Classic will approve, and theyâll instead attract a different audience, like they did with WoW already.
During Launch when we were kneeling around after looting. People seem to think the launch starter zones were packed shoulder to shoulder. It was no-where near like that. For example, I donât think I ever saw more than 5-10 people killing marines and sharpshooters at once, and while someone would come along to kill Lt Deadict, it wasnât like there was a queue.
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