I think you’re extremely overreading on that “buzz” A lot of people will play it for the first few weeks with the novelty, realise how much they’re giving up from the live game and quit Classic right after that.
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Retail may just flat out die. Blizzard said that if Classic is a success, they might also make BC and Wrath legacy servers as well. I can’t imagine anyone would continue playing Retail when you could play Wrath, BC, or Classic. Unless Retail massively, massively improved. But, honestly, I’m not even gonna pretend to get my hopes up for that.
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A terrible game? All the QoL changes in the world don’t make BfA a fun game.
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Actually yeah they do. I’m not so invested in the angst over the Alliance/Horde controversies that I’m mising having fun on the downlo Kul Tiras and Zuldazar are fun places to play in. Period. The upgrades made to game play are in the main… fun… period. I like my waterstriding mounts, I love flying over the more scenic places like Nagrand and the Borean Tundra. I liked having my own forts in Draenor, although I would have liked something for elven flavors for my night and blood elves.
Your problems with the storyline are exactly that… yours.
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5% is like thousands of people right? Weren’t the private servers around a million players?
I don’t know if they were that many, but most of those were people who simply had problems playing or wanted to play a server where you could get any item, any mount, for the right '“donation”.
Not having a monthly subscription fee may have also contributed.
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Transmogs, pet battles, new raids with mechanics that are complex, models that actually look good(how many people complain about the worgen models?). The fact shaman/paladins are available to both factions. The list goes on and on.
Which remains me, if I am gonna play classic i need to use a different class.
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To be fair, this is all very subjective. I find Kul’Tiras and Zandalar rather boring.
Nagrand is okay, but I find Borean Tundra to be hideous. If I have to level through Northrend or Outland again - which I really don’t ever want to do again, even with flying - I’d still go through Howling Fjord and Grizzly Hills instead, and Terokkar Forest and Netherstorm over Nagrand.
I love my Garrison, too, but Warlords of Draenor was a complete dud for end game content, even worse than BfA. At least Draenor was more fun to level in than Kul’Tiras, though.
I was able to recruit 26 Night Elf followers for my Garrison, have Night Elf guards, and set my music to Magic from Ashenvale, and all my favorite mounts are Hippogryphs for my Stables, and being in Shadowmoon Valley helps quite a bit, too. It’s a heavy dash of Night Elf flavor, but obviously would be nice to have more, yes.
And your enjoyment of the story is yours and doesn’t change the story for anyone who isn’t enjoying it.
I will agree with you, though, that Classic is not a game I’d want to play again. Maybe if they end up with a Wrath server to have the Classic content available but not be as tedious to level up in.
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You could be right.
But I’m in a fairly large guild, and we just ran a poll to see who was planning to play classic and on which faction, so we could organize guild activities there. Virtually every player is excited for Classic.
And here’s the thing: the classic experience is substantially different than the live server, and many will prefer it. I think >5%, as one person suggested, is highly unlikely. I think it gets, at minimum, around 20% of current players, plus a fair number of returning players. That’s low end. I think it is very hard to predict the high end, especially because it is coming out at a time when the player base has never been more disillusioned with the current product.
I also think that a lot of players who try will stick with it for months, because that’s how long it takes to reach end game in Classic, and so many RPG players are grind-oriented.
I can see a scenario where Classic becomes a substantial but still niche wing of the game, and the retail version more or less carries on. But I can also see a scenario where Classic becomes the most popular version of the game. And I think that creates a real problem for Blizzard, and for the story. Do they soldier on with an increasingly unpopular story, or do they find a way to move forward from Classic?
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The majority of people hyped about classic will stop playing it a month after release when they are still level 30 and have no mount.
It’s a non issue.
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the story after classic will be worse because they will put effort to maintaining classic and not even give a damn about the failure of BfA.
There is 0% chance there will be story divergence with classic and retail.
lol
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Oh element, you reminded me we wont have mounts(at least not for a very long time) in classic. Ugh, travel is going to be a pain!
Hey now, don’t you remember how awesome it felt to spam Trade Chat for 40 minutes trying to put a dungeon group together; only for it to fall apart by the time two of its members managed to make it to the summoning stone after 20 minutes of walking (just to restart the cycle all over again). Hell, if you did this on a PvP server … things got even more interesting. Played Alliance back then and hoo-boy, the SM or SFK runs on a Ally were something to behold lol!
Remember, Vanilla is amazing; but the 200+ threads complaining about not having flying till 3 weeks into 8.2 … BfA is the end of the world. 
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I find such confidence about future events remarkable. I’m going to assume that Blizzard is not going to be so blithe.
I feel like you’ve been part of the gaming community long enough to know what hype is.
Nostalgia can only carry something so far, many people are hoping for a experience that died long ago and cannot be replicated. Retail is at a low point too, so everyone is thirsty for the next new thing.
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For many wow gamers that joined much later, Classic WILL be a new experience for them.
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Private servers had thousands of players until they were forced to close. Isn’t Everquest still mostly the same, or does it change like WoW?
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It’s a pretty easy prediction to make - Classic’s endgame is effectively a worse version of BfA’s endgame. Yeah, the lvling experience is interesting, but that’s not going to keep people engaged in Classic for the long run.
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