The loss of authenticity in Classic: Welcome to Classic Retail

Zaalg is a retail player who trolls this forum every once in awhile.

Ask him to prove he has a character higher than level 59. He doesn’t have one. He boosted it and quit the game because he hates Classic. His trolling is very peculiar, being a retail player who doesn’t play Classic and comes here to try to claim that changes make the game more like the game he plays, thus ruining it?

Odd, for sure. Look at this blatant trolling…

  • Modern API allowing far more advanced addons but also restrictions that Vanilla didn’t have.
  • Modern shadows, water; grass effects.
  • Modern raid frames, huge change. The Vanilla frames were absolutely garbage.
  • Layering.
  • Spell queuing. This wasn’t added until original TBC but Classic had it from the start. Huge, absolutely huge change. Without it, you’d have to be mashing keys as fast as possible because spells wouldn’t cast seamlessly.
  • Other modern UI changes and graphical options.
  • Loot trading in raids.
  • Toggle for auto looting, used to have to always hold down shift to do this.
  • In Vanilla, you used to have to mail things one at a time. We didn’t have that at any point in Classic.
  • Battlenet integration.
  • Right-click reporting feature.
  • Battleground Wargames.

Virtually all of this was received positively. Maybe only the right-click reporting and layering have any complaints.

Oh, this one is good:

a “BLANKET CHANGE.”

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