I think people are underestimating the future of retail WoW and the impact of classic and what it’s going to do to the live game
You can feel free how wrong I am and for all I know I could be but it’s better that we plan for what could come in the near future.
We’ve had one cataclysm before but the next one is on it’s way. In 2 months time classic gets released.
What we all have to accept is that this is going to pull a huge number of players out of live servers and put them onto the classic ones.
We can say that some people will just jump on to check it out, we know that some people are going to play it as their primary game mode.
We don’t fully know its staying power yet and I’ve seen people say nostalgia can only carry it so far however I’m a Runescape player and I’ve seen first hand the effects of throwing the older game back into the mix and seeing who prefers what
But more for the short term 8.3 will be coming out at some point and I believe that is going to be the most important content patch ever created in WoW. It will pretty much be a deciding point of where people want to invest their time.
However leading up to 8.3 will be a scary time, as a portion of the community leaves it will take away people participating in live - It will be harder to find groups, it will be harder to find skilled groups which can be even more deviating, the economy will take a hit as less people farming and less people buying can end up in not enough stock or too much stock for people to bother with.
I think PvP will take a huge hit, according to the WoW classic census most the people planning on playing with be on PvP servers.
You can call this all doomsaying but at this point it’s extremely hard to tell whats going to happen. To dismiss the issues I’m throwing down can be a horrific oversight as I’m not trying to say “classic WoW is going to kill modern WoW” as I’m more trying to find out what we can do to remedy some of the issues it might cause
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Please move this post this in the classic forum.
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I would only have to accept this if it was a for sure thing. But nobody can predict the future, least of all game devs.
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It’s definitely going to cause depopulation issues, at least in the short term.
So far WoW has done a bad, bad job of handling depopulation. Hopefully Classic will be the kick in the behind they need to make real fixes (like server merges, AH merges, better cross-realm socialization).
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Another one of these threads, eh?
sigh
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this isn’t a post about classic, it’s a post about retail
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Haven’t you ever had a future dream?
It’s not like classic is competing with 8.3. Classic is releasing at a time when everyone will be done with 8.2 content. People will jump back to retail a week before 8.3.
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I heard 8.2 was make or break…I’m kinda playing it, but I’d say it broke.
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If you’re talking about the impact of classic at all then you need to move it to classic forums.
We’re done entertaining the notion that classic is going to kill or harm retail in any way. These topics are just spam at this point.
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Retail WoW is what will kill retail WoW. Not classic, not some other MMO, not some mythical new generation of phone gamers.
Just bad game design by mediocre developers.
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Why would I want to play a game with the worst class design/balance in WoW’s history, along with the simplest raids and dungeon bosses. Something that rewards “logging in a ton” vs “actually being good”.
I have no desire to touch classic WoW.
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I’d say you’re just spamming my topic about the future of retail WoW with unrelated comparisons when I’m trying to ask what we are going to do about having maybe months and a heavily declined population
it’s something that needs to be discussed and not swept under the rug
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Are you actually seriously suggesting that dreams can predict the future accurately?
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Calling it now, classic will be a 1-2 month flash out of darkness that quickly returns.
People will try it just out of curiosity, or to see if it triggers nostalgia. But no one in their right mind wants to play a 2004 graphics level game where hunters have to carry bullets/arrows around in their bag and can run out, where you can’t mount until 40 and never fly, and all the other quality of life elements are stripped away.
Classic was good at the time because it was new and innovative at the time. You can’t recapture the feeling of driving the first horseless carriage by cruising down a modern freeway in a glorified go-cart at 5mph.
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Does that mean I won’t lag terribly every time I go to a city center because if so I welcome it.
I think you might be missing the point
I’m not asking which one is going to perform I’m asking what we’re going to do about that 1-2 month gap when people vanish
Why do we have to do anything?
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Classic will cause a drop in retail activity for about a month. Then the masses of retail players that tried it out will come screaming back. I mean can you imagine the crying when people find out that not only don’t you get a mount until level 40 but it is a ground mount and there is no flying mounts at all?!? No dungeon or raid finder? Having to actually run on FOOT to instances! Oh and let’s not forget that gem of having to keep your weapon skills up to date. God forbid you get a cool upgraded weapon, only to find out you forgot to train it and now you can’t hit the board side of a barn with it.
Look I loved vanilla but today’s average WoW player won’t last long in classic…
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