Dunno about that, man. A lot of people here say that they played vanilla while in their teens, which would mean that they were born in the late 80’s/early 90’s, hence before then-candidate Bush made that infamous promise, or wouldn’t be old enough to be aware of the election if they were born. Remember, 1988 was over 30 years ago now.
anecdotal. i never said there wont be any young players at all
28 is over the biggest gaming demographic too, its 18-24
there are some, but i dont think its a lot, compared to the older crowd
Sharding is spawning multiple versions of the same area. In this case, the area in which the stadium is.
If you don’t want to accept what sharding is, take it up with Blizzard. I didn’t make it.
If you don’t like to accept Blizzard’s statement nothing can help you. There would never be multiple superbowls.
This is an actual quote from George H.W. Bush.
if you do not like the way the game is implemented… DO NOT PLAY.
Read my post in the highway thread. I don’t feel like going back and copying it. Though I should just save it and repost it in all 5 daily sharding threads. TBH at this point if you can’t handle sharding just don’t play it, I won’t miss you.
Which statement?
Well in context of the analogy, if you have friends you’re talking to and can’t see in a different shard and you group up with strangers on your shard and they do the same on another shard, and you both take a shot at Hogger and you down him on the first try and they wipe three times before getting him down, then in that sense there are two Superbowls.
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Id say 20s+, which is not to say younger ppl wont play, just that they wont be the majority.
Vanilla was released over 15 years ago, most people playing were 15+ years old at the time. Hence most of the people interested in classic will be at least 30+
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I was 14 when Vanilla launched, though unfortunately I didn’t get introduced to WoW until the tail end of 2009.
I think the game’s only going to appeal to gamers with a very specific, dare I say it, “retro” mindset. I know my younger brother won’t be touching Classic, he’s said as much. It’s not his thing. He’s too pleased with TOR.
Meanwhile, speaking as a 90’s kid, I’m VERY excited for WoW Classic largely thanks to the “retro” mindset aforementioned.
Not the best quote considering what happened.
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You’re being too literal, I came in at TBC and am 24 now. All my friends are the same. TBC (and some of Wrath) was not unlike Vanilla in many ways. Cata was the big change, therefore both ppl from TBC and Wrath( ill be it less so) will want to play wow just as much as OG vanilla players.
Most of them will want to play BC or Wrath if that’s when they started. I’m just going off what happens with every re released product ever not just WoW and not just video games.
There’s going to be some odd balls but by and large re released products appeal to their original audience.
I started in Wrath, but I was stuck in Vanilla content until Crapaclysm launched. I also hate Outland with a white-hot burning passion. So, nope. I’ll just take Classic, thanks! Wrath can go freeze its nuts off.
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Yes, but most of vanilla’s “original audience” also played BC and some of Wrath. If you liken it to a re-release of something like a ps1 game for example. X-packs are similar to sequels of a game. Therefore it would make sense to assume that if someone liked the first entry of a game they would like its sequel (barring any major changes). And in the same sense if you played the sequel first, you would want to go back and play the original (assuming you enjoyed it).
That being said, i dont doubt that if we split up the player base, based upon which x-pack they played first, most classic players would be form vanilla (barring the initial mass of sightseers). Followed closely by tbc and wrath. Every other x-pack would be where you find the youngest audience no doubt.
This is the biggest Blizzard statement I can find about sharding on RP servers:
Really seems like some people just love to twist Blizzard’s words.
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Thanks for the link. You’re a great guy