It is expected that many would not resub after their initial resub just for classic. If people are super WoW nerds that were playing retail previously, then they’ll probably will stick around or already have their sub ongoing. Some will stay for sure, but nostalgia can be short lived.
I think this was normal behavior from the beginning, but I think several aspects are going to turn more away than normally would have.
layers are the least nostalgic part of this entire thing. Most who subbed up to come back from playing back then, are probably not too happy with how layers have become part of the meta game.
Certain classes and combat isn’t really as it was… biggest culprit is the Hunter Class being somewhat effected from this discrepancy. This is disappointing to me because I played Hunter as my primary in vanilla.
1.12 does feel a bit stagnate, and people will have to live with that over the multiple content patches they will add.
Internet Hype… I really think the initial wind on the internet will blow away quick on this one. There are new Christmas games right around the corner.
I think blizzard will fix layers or tweak their behavior, and maybe fix combat flow a bit better, but I really think it’s going to take too long.
For me my resub did get me the money’s worth, but I’ll be letting it run off, and considering coming back in the future. Hopefully they can continue to iterate on the museum experience and just keep pushing it more towards recreating the vanilla world and dynamic.
My only hope is that they eventually do new server resets almost like the Diablo style ladders.
I can guarantee you that most players don’t care about layering. In fact, I’d bet my epic mount money at a significant portion of the player base doesn’t even know layering exists.
What’s hilarious is if a high amount of unsubs happen, Blizzard gets to say “See? We were right to use layering to make sure each server had a sustainable population after those unsubs.”. It will have proven them absolutely right.
Only if people DON’T unsub will layering have been the wrong choice. Blizzard would be in a point where they can’t really turn it off by Phase 2, and the anti-layering community would have been right.
Personally? I expect a good amount of unsubs for various reasons, chief among them being that people just thought they’d enjoy it more than they ended up enjoying it. Exactly what I expect Blizzard’s estimations were pre-launch.
I understand that, and I understand why they are using them… they can easily fix the layering problem just by limiting it to only swap layers when players in group get closer in proximity. It’s just going to take too long right now for them to fix in my opinion.
your post is just opinion and speculation based on the bias that you do not want classic to succeed.
Blue have said that people are blowing this one way out of proportion and they are monitoring it. I have not noticed any issues in game with layering or felt adversly effected by it at all.
The only place It seems to be an issue is here on the forums. usually posted by retail players.
this is just a matter of opinion and I don’t think it’s as much as an issue as you do.
huh? i don’t agree at all. this is just trying to throw shade at classic.
Great, I hope you find a new game under the Christmas tree.
Our community is better off without the needlessly upset few.
Many, including blizzard implementing layering, and guild leaders that don’t want to leave the high population servers. They both expect the queue times to go down when the first wave dissipates.