Please reconsider your stance on retail/classic reward linking

[Tragedy-perenolde]

stupid troll post

[Galdor-maelstrom (Galdor)]

These BFA players are so boring

Nightsëa
110 Void Elf Hunter

[Fesz-cenarius]

These BFA players are so boring

Nightsëa
110 Void Elf Hunter

Level 110 doesn’t sound like BFA to me.

It sounds like that player enjoyed legion, but did not find BFA to be worth purchasing.

[Jomjom-bloodscalp (Jomjom)]

These BFA players are so boring

Nightsëa
110 Void Elf Hunter

Level 110 doesn’t sound like BFA to me.

It sounds like that player enjoyed legion, but did not find BFA to be worth purchasing.

“Void Elf” was the clue

[Matcauthon-steamwheedle-cartel (Matcauthon)]

These BFA players are so boring

Nightsëa
110 Void Elf Hunter

Level 110 doesn’t sound like BFA to me.

It sounds like that player enjoyed legion, but did not find BFA to be worth purchasing.

“Void Elf” was the clue

So they, like me, bought BFA, tried it, and realized it’s crap.

[Rylañ-emerald-dream]

No just no

[Idun-wyrmrest-accord (Idun)]

I would still love to be able to collect mog from the vanilla realms.

Since there are several pieces I trashed years ago not knowing transmog was coming that I would love to get back. Rip rip.

Best bet is to encourage Blizzard to come up with for a shot at those items in Current. WoD had the Salvage Yard. There’s other ways it could happen.

[Gratefultime-hyjal]

CE pets? Collectors Editions were for retail.

You HAD that experience. You continued and are still with the game 14 years later. That is your once in a lifetime COLLECTORS experience…

Classic release is to finally bring back original WoW, talent trees (not terrible “pick 1 of 3, good choice” bullsh**. Actual, in depth talents, the playstyles. Stance - dancing 21/0/30 builds. THE PVP EXPERIENCE! this alone was my focus at my max in Vanilla. Before the ranking system changed I made it to Commander on my mage, I was there when Warsong Gulch opened. Arathi Basin…

As close to authentic playstyle, and everything else… I never had to raid a day in my life until Naxx came out because the Naxx armor was just that SMIDGEN better than the PvP armor and put you over the top.

Classic isnt for the people who want to pimp out their BFA/retail accounts. Classic is for those who want the PLAY STYLE and EXPERIENCE of the original game that brought us all together! THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE YOUR CE PETS UNFORTUNATELY. THAT ONE WAS ONCE IN A LIFETIME, AT THE RELEASE OF RETAIL.

It was your CE experience for buying the game THEN, and is meaningless on the replication and revival of the content and MAINLY the play style. It is a COSMETIC and I dont want to see blizzard bend over backwards to appease you e-peen strokers because you want to re-include your CE purchase and miss something that actually affects the game. And not your ego’s…

Linking ANY sort of reward from classic -> retail will dilute the experience and destroy it for those people who work HARD AS HELL to hit end game Naxx, and put in the effort for all these items we can no longer get because retail has expanded and evolved past what it was. The story HAD to continue, and it has continued fairly well… Ups and downs but now… We get to go back we get to play in a static server where we evolve and bring it right back to where we all started…

The war, fighting for OUR WORLD!

FOR THE HORDE!!!

[Gratefultime-hyjal]

Took me so long to get through this thread…

On a side note.

I can already hear the babies crying about how

“oh, you dont have the CE thats why you’re not for it.”

I had them. This isnt the original account from when I was 14.

Do I care?

Absolutely friggin not.

[Fateweaver-misha (Fateweaver)]

So, many retail apologists trying to say that a lack of reward linking will be the death of Classic™.

[Laelius-stormrage]

Honestly a bit disappointed about the non-reward linking stance that’s been taken.

Won’t prevent me from playing Classic at all, but a decent part of the incentive definitely died with that announcement. I truly do hope that the experience is delivered is truly monumental. I think it’s safe to say that we’re not getting an exact replica of the game during Vanilla’s life, but more akin to an off-brand cereal.

Looking forward to having item level of gear actually mean something sub level 90 again though.

[Weili-wyrmrest-accord (Weili)]

Looking forward to having item level of gear actually mean something sub level 90 again though.

I hope we can’t even see the item level on gear and that the API blocks addons from showing it. There’s no need for that garbage in vanilla; as has been pointed out frequently here, some low-level items were BiS for some classes/specs all the way through 60 (Wolfshead Helm, etc.)

[Matcauthon-steamwheedle-cartel (Matcauthon)]

Honestly a bit disappointed about the non-reward linking stance that’s been taken.

Won’t prevent me from playing Classic at all, but a decent part of the incentive definitely died with that announcement. I truly do hope that the experience is delivered is truly monumental. I think it’s safe to say that we’re not getting an exact replica of the game during Vanilla’s life, but more akin to an off-brand cereal.

Looking forward to having item level of gear actually mean something sub level 90 again though.

rewards linking would be bad for the classic community overall. we’d have to deal with massive turnover issues as people get what they want and leave.

[Derka-wyrmrest-accord (Derka)]

There is no measure of success we’re looking for in Classic. It’s us trying to give that section of the community what they’ve been asking for for more than a decade and making it as authentic as we can possibly make it.

Y’all hear that mic drop? I sure do. Sounded like a BOOOOOM.

[Taintedheals-emerald-dream (Taintedheals)]

Classic and retail should not be connected in any way.
If unobtainable things are what you are after there is always the black market auction house they could add it to.

[Leishaan-azjolnerub (Leishaan)]

There is no measure of success we’re looking for in Classic. It’s us trying to give that section of the community what they’ve been asking for for more than a decade and making it as authentic as we can possibly make it.

If a million people play Classic or a thousand people play Classic that’s awesome, we’re just happy that we’re giving them the home they’ve been asking to return to. The existing rewards will should still exist but they will of course stay on Classic. They are two separate experiences.

Anyone else read this as, “We wanted the money from this particular cow so no one else could milk it any more”? Or is that just the Activision cynic in me that’s seen too much crap?

[Nightsëa-nemesis (Nightsëa)]

I have buyed BFA on pre order, but quit before the release. So where is the problem?

I gave it a chance to retail, but i don’t liked.

You all can do the same. Give a chance to classic, play the game and If you don’t like, no problem go back to BFA or any other game.

You see me trying to change a game that i don’t liked ?

[Matcauthon-steamwheedle-cartel (Matcauthon)]

There is no measure of success we’re looking for in Classic. It’s us trying to give that section of the community what they’ve been asking for for more than a decade and making it as authentic as we can possibly make it.

If a million people play Classic or a thousand people play Classic that’s awesome, we’re just happy that we’re giving them the home they’ve been asking to return to. The existing rewards will should still exist but they will of course stay on Classic. They are two separate experiences.

Anyone else read this as, “We wanted the money from this particular cow so no one else could milk it any more”? Or is that just the Activision cynic in me that’s seen too much crap?

It’s a bit of both. On one hand they gain the goodwill of the classic community. On the other hand it allows them more leverage going after private servers.

[Leishaan-azjolnerub (Leishaan)]

It’s a bit of both. On one hand they gain the goodwill of the classic community. On the other hand it allows them more leverage going after private servers.

Yeah. My first MMORPG was Earth & Beyond, an original starship-based MMORPG created by Westwood Studios of Command & Conquer fame. Soon after it launched, Electronic Arts acquired Westwood Studios and then shut it down because it didn’t match Everquest’s numbers, even though it was less than a year old.

I also played City of Heroes and much of my subscription money was split between WoW and CoH till NCSoft killed it.

So, my senses regarding corporate governance of favorite games get tingling for certain announcements, especially when they announced otherwise in an earlier time frame.

[Banjaa-deathwing]

Classic should not just be built and abandoned.

We (the people who have advocated for Classic for 10 years) have LITERALLY asked them to build it and leave it alone.

Literally.