11/03/2018 08:37 PMPosted by MenardTo the people who lack faith in Blizzard in their efforts to provide an authentic experience. I want you to look at the person who is currently leading World of Warcraft. Ion Hazzikostas.
Ion may be many things to you. He may be someone you love or hate. He is the game director for World of Warcraft. Many people seem to be afraid of Ion because he may ruin Classic World of Warcraft. People are scared that he will take away the ability for them to have an authentic experience.
However besides Game Director for World of Warcraft, Ion or Gurgthock, as he is called in-game, most likely knows more about Vanilla World of Warcraft than you. Yes you, person reading this post.
Gurgthock, is the leader of the guild Elitist Jerks. If you were around in Vanilla World of Warcraft, since most of you played since family and friends alpha then you were, you knew about Elitist Jerks. They were part of some US first kills and had a knack for theory crafting.
Elitist Jerks, led by Gurgthock, was the first US Horde guild to kill Nefarian, C'thun and the first Horde guild to kill Thaddius. Yes, you read that correctly. Ion, the man you're so afraid of ruining the Vanilla experience, was part of both US horde/World horde first kills back in Vanilla.
Additionally, Gurgthock, was the one who opened the AQ gates on the Mal'Ganis server. Ion still sports his Scarab Lord title to this day, the same title he earned in 2/16/2006.
Ion was there in Vanilla. He pushed the game to its limits and was rewarded with many faction first kills. Other members of the World of Warcraft Classic team you saw at the panel today were also part of Vanilla World of Warcraft. They knew what it was like.
I'm confident in Blizzard and their efforts to restoring the game that I started playing in 2006 and still play to this day. With that said... keep providing feedback and don't ever settle for less than authentic. I provided feedback at the conclusion of the demo and listed issues that were not apart of my experience back in 2006 and you should as well!
Peoples concerns are less about "do they know about Vanilla" and more about, "will their current game vision impact Vanilla"
With things like "loot trading" and "sharding" being considered, we have a reason to be concerned.