I imagine anyone that wants to play Classic is already playing it.
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I just play both. Little retail here and there with lots of leveling in classic when I need to just zone out and chill.
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I’ll stay subbed and I’ll play thru the story on my main. I don’t see me bothering with alts a much anymore. I normally level around 25 different characters but the anima grind and the maw will make me keep that down by about 20 now. I started FFXIV and I’m have a blast with the Bard and the Summoner. Will be spending a lot more time there, it has less systems and no Maw. And their version or Torghast is much much better.
I play both Classic and Shadowlands for different reasons.
Classic has a really good leveling game if the slower pace doesn’t turn you off. If you aren’t somebody who participates in high end endgame, it honestly feels like Classic has a lot more to offer even if a big reason as to why that is is because leveling alone will probably take you 100+ hours if you aren’t getting boosted.
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I already unsubbed. Im not into the replay version of WoW. I also suspect depending on TBC and WotLK success they will push classic all the way to MoP .
Legion classic would be popular, that expansion seems to have taken on a nostalgic life of its own similar to MoP, despite all the controversial ability pruning. I can’t see WoD classic happening. The discussions about which expansions to make classic or not must be interesting.
I could see that , they would have to skip WoD though. Unless they give us the rest of WoD because that xpac felt like they lost half the intended content.
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Just curious. Are you the rogue “Sabetha” from Fearlina ?
I just play both.
I fine enjoyment in both for very different reasons.
If you playing MMOs for the rewards, then you’re missing the entire point of playing a MMO. This mindset is very prevalent among retail WoW players. Sorry to be personal, but comments like this grind my gears.
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Nope. I do have a priest on Grobbulus named Sabetha but that’s it for this name.
I already made the decision not to buy Shadowlands after the fiasco that was Legion (personally) and BFA. I was going to give it a while before I bought it to see if there’d be meaningful improvement.
Here I am now in Classic WoW with 3 60s, SL not purchased, and pretty much unsurprised that Ion is trolling the playerbase.
I’m not subbed atm though because I’m super burnt out and need a new game to play, the boost and cash shop disheartened me a lot as well.
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I didn’t mean “rewards” as in gear drops or whatever. I meant “reward” as in a personal sense of fun productivity for the spare time invested, a personal reward that comes from the sense of making noticeable, forward progress during a play session.
I’m not a young person anymore and highly value my time. It just takes way too long to accomplish anything significant in Classic to me personally. If you enjoy that much slower pace of gameplay, I have no problems with that, but playing my characters on Retail is a whole lot more fun to me.
Currently, I’m playing real life. On day 43 of this mythic raid with crap rewards
I just don’t have it in me to play Classic again. I loved Vanilla back in the day but the Classic experience for me was just dull and not much like I remembered it being. It’s good in a sense that the game is simple and straight forward, the grind keeps you busy leveling but the endgame is meh.
I would probably stop playing WoW altogether or try out a different game before trying Classic or Classic TBC again.
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i have 2 60s in classic, waiting for tbc
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I already gave Classic a try. It’s cool to go visit for nostalgia purposes, but so many things in the game have changed for the better that I just can’t go back for any real length of time.
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I will never switch to Classic been there and done it.
I will stay as long as my wife does.
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Inferior to retail in every way? I’ll bite. TBC has tier sets. There’s one way it’s better than retail. Goteeeeeem. 
I’d say peoples big issue is the seeming lack of willingness on Actiblizzard part to listen to our feedback. So some of the players don’t feel ‘respected’. A lot of the beta testing feels meaningless when they clearly ignore player input to push their agenda. They talk about valuing our input, like the possibility of ‘pulling the ripcord’ on covenants, but in practice it appears as empty words.
Certainly, the devs won’t go along with the players on everything, but the disconnect is disconcerting. I wish there was better communication - that the players felt more appreciated.