Classic is out a month now or so and everyday there are new posts of Classic+ or TBC/wotlk servers. We arent even in phase 2 and already everyone starts fearmongering or demanding more.
Some of you can never be contend it seems.
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That’s also when the sub count started going down.
u crazy. crazy, i tell ya.
i think i would do it. working on alts right now and i gotta say it better be a solid 2 years before release if they plan on doing that cause i’m sure i’ll need time to recup before i go through that again with 8 toons.
that’s why i’m near certain pops will crash hard at some point. there isn’t enough content in vanilla to keep peoples that rush through everything satisfied for more than a very few months, if that.
As long as their are enough paying customers to keep a handful of servers running at a profit as people drop off at their favorite expansion there is really no reason why Blizz shouldn’t keep going. Plus they now have the added benefit of knowing that people may want to go back to older content in its original form and can save their data so they wont have to rely on “backups of backups” to try and rebuild everything. This would further decrease the investment needed to roll any future “Classic” servers.
At the end of the day as long as they are making money I don’t think anyone at Blizz will care how fractured the player base is across the different servers because once they reach the end of however many phases they include on the expansion it becomes relatively cheep to keep servers going in a static “maintenance mode” setup.
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Truth be told, I would just love Classic + - Keep the essential features that made Classic good, like talent trees, no flying, leveling difficulty and introduce new stuff such as removed content, new class/race combos and perhaps new content that maintains the spirit of Classic later on the line.
flying was in every way an improvement.
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no it wasnt
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As cool as this would be, imagine the logistics of having to maintain four separate versions of the same game. Cool? Sure. But it would be a lot of money. Even Classic isn’t just “set it and forget it”. There are bugs and issues that crop up from time to time that need to be fixed (see: the warrior shouts, hunter feign death).
Logistically, maintaining not just two but four separate versions of the same game, while creating new content for one of them, would be a ton of money and require a lot of work that I am just not sure Activision is willing to pay for.
it was. more mobility is always better.
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No it warps your presentation of the world making it feel smaller and insignificant…It was one of the absolute worst things they could have added up there with LFG/LFR
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it does the exact opposite, it allows you to actually experience the world, to go anywhere you can see.
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yeah in an instant making it feel smaller …when it takes me 30 min to walk some were the world feels big when I can fly there in 5 seconds the world feels small. that is not to mention that because every one is up and flying everywhere no one sees others making the world feel empty.
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I do know they are hiring right now for writers and developers. It’s on the website.
They are preparing to do something. Hopefully they will give us a game we can keep playing for years. I am enjoying Classic, but I did not experience vanilla. Nor did I experience BC. I want to see it as well. I am sure I am not alone in this desire.
Keep your Classic servers for the #nochangers.
Give us TBC and Wrath as advances for those who want to see it as it was before all the changes that the last five years made.
There is no way they are going to satisfy everyone. Accept that and be glad they gave us Classic. This endless arguing is only further dividing the player base.
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I mean, I’m in no way opposed to TBC servers or Wrath servers, but I just don’t think they’re ever going to maintain four versions of the game at one time. Not only the time/money to maintain it, but it would further divide the player base and idk. It just seems like there’s a lot to think about before making the decision.
Hard agree. Classic Barrens feels so huge being grounded and mountless. I can AFK zoom across it in seconds on retail.
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Add in the arena gear which threw off the balance of PvP. Someone in arena gear could rip right through someone wearing regular pvp gear like it was paper. That did more damage to world pvp than the flying ever did.
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TBC back then isnt the same as retail today…
Now you understand THAT
Raid gear already did that. The problem was that resilience made it absurdly difficult to burst anyone down, which was one of the ways someone could beat someone more geared than them. It also massively buffed healers.
Arena gear was also better in many ways than quite a few PvE pieces in PvE, which was also a problem.
Funny how no one ever complained about when people could instantly queue for WSG or AV or any of the other battle grounds and how it “ruined the sense of community”. People also tend to forget LFD was in vanilla for a short period of time but it was taken out because it did not work to well.
Someone got wrecked.