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That’s more like 87 cents.

Oh, and you’re wrong. Classic is cash grab/IP protection.

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You nerds should know better. WoW is srs bizness.

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Classic is dying by the way. Nice tin foil hat theory tho.

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I mean silicone packets aren’t meant to be eaten, but some people still eat em.

Judging by your statements made as statements of fact instead of conjecture, I’d hazard a guess you might be one such individual.

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Ha. I’ll have what he’s having.

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In the time it took you to type all of that out, you could have been playing WOW Classic and having fun. In fact, you could have leveled a Classic alt to 10 to post on the forum instead of that abomination. It’s not like you posted on an established forum character with lots of other intelligent posts.

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Hmm very interesting…

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You say Classic+ won’t happen, but I seem to recall many people posting on the WoW forums a few years ago were entirely convinced that a Vanilla reboot would be a terrible mistake and was a pipe dream, and that anyone who wanted a “garbage,” “inferior” older product should just be told NO. I wouldn’t be too hasty with assumptions about what Blizzard is willing to do, or what the market for such a product would be. If even a fraction of the player base from WoW’s long history was interested in Classic+ content, there could potentially be millions of people interested in it (and, of note to Activision, millions of people willing to spend money on such a product).

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Sounds good to me.

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i mean, no, but also hell no.

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I have no objections to any of this as it is exactly what I want. I don’t care what they do with their analysis. I’m never going to play their modern expansions.

All I want is the ability to play the final patch of wotlk until I die with no resets.

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i hope so. If they do it right they can make current wow perfect for everyone

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I don’t believe that’s possible. Has there ever been a change in WOW in its entire lifespan that made everyone happy? Even stuff that seem innocuous like the barbershop had its critics.

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It won’t happen, and here’s why:

Classic is a known commodity. They had to work out how to get it done right, but it was done by squeezing old tech into new tech in a new way.

Classic +, however, is an UNKNOWN commodity, and NO ONE can agree on what the “+” should actually be. No matter what they add (or take away, if needed) will alienate a portion of the playerbase and cause them to quit.

Classic + will not and SHOULD not happen.

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No no, of course it’s not too long.

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At what point did anyone at Blizzard even hinted at the fact that they consider the retail game to be “broken”?

Its not. Every choices that led it to be what it is now were consequent. Retail WoW is exactly what the WoW team wanted it to be and it fulfills the purpose they want it to fulfill, which is mostly generate revenue through micro-transactions.

There’s no “fixing” retail because from a business perspective, its not broken at all.

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Seems very likely, OP. I disagree on a minor nitpick here or there, but the idea that this isn’t about anything other than being nice and making a little sidecash is downright silly. I don’t think it’s for the purpose of ‘fixing’ retail, and I don’t think retail will actually see very many ‘new’ ports of direct classic mechanisms, but that the data will help design ~new~ mechanics that function on the same underlying principles, primarily in the social aspect. IE…what makes people group, when, why, and under what incentives, then that gets stuffed into something new and utilized in retail where one of the bigger problems is a lack of commitment to people, which leads to a lack of commitment to the game itself.

Naturally it’s all conjecture, but it’s sound conjecture.

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Basically this. Its a marketing tool, a cheap way to target an audience their modern games don’t.

While i’m a big advocate for Classic+, i know it won’t happen because they can still repeat the process at least twice by releasing “Classic BC” and “Classic WoTLK” who both have much more powerful marketing impacts than any eventual Classic+ release.

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What OP wrote seems plausible but going deeper, nope. Classic is a simpler retro game. The hardcore audience is small. If people had to pay for the Classic client software and a separate monthly sub to access Classic, the numbers wouldn’t be in the millions. And would retail devs ever go back to the simpler systems? Their entire reason for existing would be at risk. lol

What Classic did accomplish is to generate interest in WoW again. Whether the WoW devs can convert enough of those players to get into retail is the key. Otherwise, Classic is a one-off. So would a BC remaster. Can’t even imagine a WotLK remaster yet. It would depend on how well a BC remaster did.

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