Retail Players' thoughts on Classic Wrath

Title. Retail Players and their thoughts on Classic. Largest takeaways I noticed:

  • They won’t play without LFD, this was repeatedly said
  • “Been there done that”, this was probably the 2nd most stated. Fair enough
  • A lot of them don’t even consider playing Classic because “It’s in the game still” (I find that one silly, personally)

Still see a decent number of them saying they’d check it out or do it during off-time of raiding in Retail, but I’m personally a bit surprised how few said they care at all, although I guess I rarely think about Retail

Thoughts? Takeaways?

Edit: Forgot to actually link the post, whoops

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gO To reTAiL

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retail?
who cares

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It’s a demographic of potential consumers with a different perspective on a product we play. I find it interesting, guess it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.

Always fun knowing the “Other side” of opinions.

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Wasn’t going to do it personally.

But the fresh servers got me reconsidering.

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I was super excited to play classic in the beginning, but I always lost interest in vanilla before AQ. Bwl is super boring. TBC was GREAT and is in my opinion the best expansion, but Blizzard decided bots = easy money, so lost interest. Wotlk will just be an easier version of tbc with MUCH bigger problems than tbc has right now. I’ve actually lost so much interest that I’m playing shadowlands again and enjoying it.

Sad what they’ve done to such a masterpiece. GDKP’s, bots and boosting are the new tbc experience.

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You. You’re playing it afterall.

It is silly, alot of stuff is no longer in the game. Old zones (we should have Zidormi in each one to revert it back to pre-cata) and old dungeons like Scholomance, UBRS, etc reworked (should have Zidormi in each one to revert it back to pre-rework).

They shouldn’t of touched DF. Wrath was a pot of gold for them, but Blizzard is dumb af

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Here my question…I don’t understand why they can’t just turn back on the original version of the game??.without messing with it? Are the original codes gone ? Or is the original coding to old and won’t work…because there just trying to reinvent the wheel but with less bells and whistles…

Are the original codes gone ?

No, but they want to emulate the old code on the new client. Which is in the best interest of everybody for a ton of reasons.

Tech Debt aside, the client is smooth af and one of the main reasons Classic > PServers

I like this thread. It showcases that the audience Blizzard is listening to for Classic is their Classic base, not the Retail one.

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Yea no.

Go into game, ask randomly in any group, guild chat, trade chat, etc. if people want RDF or not. I see very few people advocating for the removal of RDF.

This is in TBCC, not retail.

We are classic players.

We are the majority.

You are a vocal minority.

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Yep, the classic base loves those boosts

People enjoy different things.

I do? I have almost 200 days played on my Classic toons.

The people I do know that want RDF are really lazy.

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Well, they listen to them most of the time.

Lazy? What a stupid take.

People who don’t want to sit around for 20 minutes to an hour plus forming a group are, by your definition, lazy?

We just don’t find it fun.

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Ive tried recruiting at least 10 different gamer friends and family members into Classic, including some of which who actively play Retail.

No dice. Unfortunately, every one of them quit after level ~20 (and the Retail players went back to Retail).

It really is hard to get people into Classic who didnt already grow up playing Classic. That nostalgia pull is an extremely powerful thing i guess.

Well, doing other content while you wait for queue doesn’t count because you’re just assumed to be sitting in a town waiting on the queue.

Remember that clicking 1 button to start the queue is a lot lazier than clicking one button to point your mount in direction and then hitting one key to make it auto fly in that direction.

2 is greater than 1 so, yeah, lazy

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