“Classic+” requires 2 things to be feasible that TBC servers don’t: (A) substantial money and resources to develop original content and (B) the community’s trust to develop original content.
I don’t see the Classic devs receiving either.
Classic+ is a nice thought experiment but I really don’t see Blizzard weighing the pros and cons and deciding that creating NEW content for their museum piece project is the best course of action, at least not until they’ve milked TBC and WotLK content a second time.
Don’t need Classic+. Keep Classic as close to pre-BC as possible. There is no reason to keep adding on. You want more WoW to your WoW? Retail is what you’re looking for.
Do you want the gameplay the original had, when Hunters needed ammo, dungeons wasn’t just a mad rush of tank’n’spank, managing resources like mana was actually something to consider in game and the huge amounts of gold didn’t exist? Classic is for you.
They don’t need to create anything new to add to Classic. Ever. That’s the beauty of it. They can’t mess it up if they keep the status quo.
I don’t understand why some people want TBC or Wrath…those two expansions were the beginning of what turned WoW into garbage (hello flying mounts). My wife’s boyfriend and her son and I ONLY want vanilla. #nochanges.
I know Classic+ posts come up enough for people to have developed a nijerk reaction to the mere mention of the term, but if you pushed through your instinctive revulsion and read the post you’d have realized I’m not advocating for Classic+.
The entire point is that I’m saying it extremely unlikely to happen.
We all know whats actually going to happen. Classic TBC… we all know it, it’s literally best for blizzard and wanted by the majority, it’s going to happen.
Unless there’s some sort of poll done by every player as they log into the game, I don’t think any of us can really say what the majority wants or doesn’t want.
There are plenty of people calling for both Classic+ and TBC servers.
Blizzard/Activision is a very poor company. They can barely scrape together the capital to run wow at all. I’m amazed they haven’t declared bankruptcy already.
I did read through the initial post. What I’m saying is that there should be no reason for it this whole thing to even be considered in any shape or form. Thought experiments sure why not, but other than that, no. Blizzard shouldn’t even have this concept on the table for Classic.
I have no real objection to the idea of Classic TBC, but obviously BC utterly and totally invalidates your progression from vanilla - it’s de-facto starting over. A level 60 who dinged the day before is pretty much at the same level as one who was farming AQ40.
According to some, that was needed because there was no way to keep characters progressing in vanilla without breaking them. If that is the case, then that is the case.
Even if not, there would be the question: does Classic+ do things like buff balance druids so they can do competitive dps in progression raids? Or would that make it no longer truly “Classic”?
But it’s all a moot point unless Classic is so huge that they really see it as worth it to investigate any of this.
TBC was the most balanced the game ever was. It managed to fix a lot of the itemization issues from Vanilla. It was the peak of the crafting system. Attunements were stellar and required players to actually elevate their gameplay if they wanted to see the inside of a raid.
If all you can cry about is “flying mounts” in TBC you weren’t paying attention. Flying mounts didn’t kill world pvp, battlegrounds did. World PVP still happened just as much as it ever did post-BGs you most likely just weren’t there. On any healthy server there were daily raids back and forth in HFP. The Flightpaths in Netherstorm were almost always camped by one faction or the other. World PVP happened just as much as it always did.
Now Wrath took TBC and expanded on it. Some of the ideas were great (Activated hardmodes), some of the ideas were mediocre(Naxx 2.0) and some were bad (Argent Dawn tournament). The thing that Wrath had going for it was the Lore and what many consider some of the best raids of all time (Ulduar, ICC).
