People who are still playing classic are likely doing it part time on an alt. They’re probably playing BC and/or retail too.
It honestly won’t matter too much for retail. Most people that play AND stay in Classic or TBCC are players who weren’t going to play retail to begin with. I think the converse is true too - most of the people who are still subbed in retail at this point in the patch cycle aren’t likely to switch over to either of the classic iterations for the long haul.
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I pretty much prefer that the server looks dead, over having to fight for every mob sapwn tbh
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Once TBC has run its course, it’ll rot like Classic. You can’t play those 2 forever no matter how much you may want to.
Tbc is already dead. The only thing keeping the corpse from collapsing is it’s temporary revival. The hype will be short. Retail is the only way forward. If you can’t see that, idk what to tell you
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People who like tbc the most will play tbc.
People who like classic will play Classic.
People who tolerate retail will play it sometimes.
Classic numbers will be low as one of the greatest wow eras gets re-created. Things will stabilize eventually and more people will probably come back to Classic occasionally.
Though, I don’t see it beating Wrath or TBC in popularity, we’ll see.
Choices to play more games is always a good thing.
Splitting the devs three ways is the issue for me, I have no interest in looking back, only forward. Dev time spent on Classic/TBC is time they aren’t spending on new stuff.
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I vote no on that. Maybe just the ones that make sense, not all of them.
Damn, was hoping this would be a 3rd faction thread.
That’d be awesome!!
There might be a “cup of tea” for everyone eventually expansions wise.
Is it a good idea? for marketing yeah
For the playerbase of retail? not really, specially if they keep following this path of terrible systems after 2 expansions.
I hope they’re not splitting the devs, that would be concerning.
Although, I don’t think the “Classic” stuff requires that much additional dev time anyways… isn’t most of it just copy-pasting old/existing patches with minor tweaks?
No real “new” content is being created w/ all the Classic stuff, but I’m no game dev/programmer so who knows how many man-hours are involved.
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This is easy to predict
Classic BC will be a bustling hub that’ll quickly die out in 1-2 weeks as the newness wears off…once 9.1 launches, the only people actively playing it will be the tryhards who want it with the occasional login from retail players on raid nights (so long as it doesn’t interfere with retail activities). Once 9.1 is in more of a lull, you may see a very slight uptick of players looking to catch up or start in BC who almost all will get smacked down because the overall playerbase will be long done with the early heroic dungeon and attunement grinds and you will be dead weight to them and not able to play in any reindeer games because there is next to no catchup gear and attunements are a real pain in the donkey once next to nobody needs them anymore.
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they all make blizz the same money
It really doesn’t matter.
Classic will be dead until people are done with TBC and decide to mess around with it some more. TBC will be huge until 9.1 comes out. 9.1’s raid will keep people playing 9.1 for a couple of months and then people will split to one of the three games to mess around and wait for 9.2 or simply unsub until the next patch.
True chads play all three.
i played Biomutant almost all day, got on TBCC to quest a bit before bed.
People will cluster to the latest version of Classic because as much as they said they wanted classic vanilla servers for years all they really wanted was to relive the time period during which they played. They didn’t get that same rush with Classic Vanilla so they’ll all jump to Classic TBC. I give it a year before they’re asking about Classic Wrath.
It doesn’t matter to Blizzard, a paid sub is a paid sub. They knew this would happen the moment they made Classic.
Then it’s no longer “Classic” and there’s no point in doing it. If you want the changes then Retail is there for you.
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