Surprised we have not had any news

[Gnocci-emerald-dream]

I bet they made him sign a NDA before kicking him out the door. It would however be awesome if he chose to unload all he knows about the project on twitter.

[Katerina-mannoroth]

I bet they made him sign a NDA before kicking him out the door. It would however be awesome if he chose to unload all he knows about the project on twitter.

Based on other things, it seems the NDA Blizzard uses provides a way for former employees to get permission to release information to the public. So he could still throw something together, run it past whomever remains at Blizzard, get the okay to share, and put it out somewhere online on his own. But I’m not so sure how inclined he is towards working for free in promoting a product for an employer that just summarily terminated his employment.

[Dontlosmeßro-illidan]

Not to split hairs here, but I’m far more interested in the decisions that have been made than I am how far along they are in implementing said decisions. I have total confidence in Blizzard to make things happen from a technical perspective. I do have some concerns that the overlords at Acti-Blizz will “encourage” extras to generate revenue at the expense of authenticity.

Those are some of the coolest conversations I think I’ve personally had about the project with the Classic team. As a fanboy I honestly get a little giddy about them. I don’t want to overhype them because not a lot of people are that excited about restoring old maps, or UI elements. Like I said before we look forward to sharing more specific details and even some examples of how the team managed to solve some problems that we think are pretty interesting.

I totally get the concern, but to comfort the thought that comes with that, this isn’t a normal project. It’s a passion project for you folks that have been diehard Classic fans and have been asking us to provide a real Vanilla server for over 10 years. We know we haven’t won over all of you yet, and some are waiting to see a closer final product, but the team is dedicated to trying to pull it off.

Don’t play dumb. We both know there are FAR more people interested in Classic than BFA at the moment.

[anon26013520]

Don’t play dumb. We both know there are FAR more people interested in Classic than BFA at the moment.

He’s dead, Jim.

[Àrwén-thrall (Àrwén)]

We’ve been working on a number of things to hopefully get out to you guys soon™.
Nothing to share on it specifically right now but work is happening everyday both on Classic, as well as things we want to communicate to you guys about Classic.

I myself look forward to sharing more details in the coming future as I’ve been very excited and interested in seeing and hearing what all the team is doing and we know you guys are eager to hear and see these things too.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[Alederys-stormrage]

Dont people want it do be “incomplete and buggy” like it was at launch? Or do you mean perfect the bugs to replicate Vanila?

[Thundathys-amanthul (Thundathys)]

they already announced the classic patch and it definitely had pvp gear. Classic isn’t starting at the beginning of vanilla. Its starting quite a ways in.

Unless you don’t live in the states, then it’s normal patch progression as it was back in the day.

[Fisticuffred-area-52 (Fisticuffred)]

I mean that they’re rebuilding the game from the Legion client. Which means there are new bugs that can be introduced, or bugs overlooked that existed in Legion. Not to mention, there were items in the demo that still had the modern stat format, so pushing the release up before it’s done could mean some of these items still fall through the cracks. Regen values were also wrong on the demo. There are so many things they need to compare to how they worked (or even if they existed in the first place) back then, that a rushed release schedule would greatly affect their ability to do so.