Classic wouldn’t be a dead mmo though. Private servers prove that alone.
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No we are looking at this from a business perspective. A fairly obvious one at that. I am not sure where you are getting your ideas from at all. Like I said, people weren’t asking for vanilla because retail kept going, most of these people simply have been playing p servers for the last however many years and completely forgot about retail. If WoW died 10 years ago, like I just said, there would still be a demand for vanilla. This can not be argued as it is obviously correct. If there is a demand for a product, and a company sees this as a way to make money, they will make it.
Your logic is flawed at best. More realistically it is nonsense.
Not really. When millions are at stake, someone has to pay, shareholders would never wanna see Blizz try to resurrect WoW shortly after a Retail version shutdown. It’s delusional to even consider.
Other than the one that did and is currently thriving and more successful than it ever was prior to being rebuilt and “resurrected”.
Yeah and I mentioned that one several times. That ONE.
Why do you keep comparing vanilla to a bad version of warcraft? You need to understand that they are two completely different games and quit mixing it up.
Let me paint an analogy for you. If coke starts out with their original flavor of coke and it is a huge success, but they gradually keep changing it until 20 years later it tastes like cottoncandy in a can and everyone is asking for the old flavor back. Then it isn’t a risk to bring back the flavor that made your company big just because your new flavor bombed and ruined your franchise.
14 years is a monumental failure?
I guess I must have missed that memo.
Those FFXIV developers investing those millions into an MMO that “just got hut down” led to that MMO being more successful than it ever was. That sure was a mistake on their part.
“Mentioned” only in passing while seeming to imply that people should ignore it and that it doesn’t really count.
Except when they do, of course.
Not sure if kindness is trolling or …
I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are trolling.
Actually, Classic would probably still have happened. If sub numbers went from 8 million to 0 after vanilla, then Blizzard would either have pulled the plug for awhile or immediately reverted the game back to vanilla. Even if Blizzard pulled the plug, the retro gaming trend would have likely prompted Blizzard to bring it back for those 8 million who loved the game. In fact, without Retail to muddy the waters, Blizzard probably would have greenlit Classic sooner.
And in the event that you argue that WoW failing would have tanked the company, that’s very unlikely to be true. Running a massively successful subscription MMO, even for two years, would have brought in more than enough money to continue business as usual.
Do you have any idea what you’re saying? Companies release popular games… Classic wow sold roughly 7 million copies, plus subscriptions. It would be a bad idea to not invest on releasing such a product. If bioware rereleased the original Mass Effect, they wouldn’t can the project because Mass Effect Andromeda was a flop and ruined the series.
If wow only declined after vanilla and died around Cata, blizzard would still see all of the $$$$ from rereleasing classic.
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Yeah no. Learn how business actually works, not how you want it to work in magical forum land.
rereleasing popular games is a pretty common thing. I guess every company that’s done it must have no business sense too. You are really sounding ridiculous at this point. You realize Blizzard has done this same thing already right?
Put the bottle down and go to bed
There is proof that what you are suggesting is impossible, has actually happened. So your point is automatically disproven from that fact alone.
It’s okay to be wrong, but acting like a child when you’re wrong… now that’s embarrassing
this…isnt even remotely true. at all.
classic isnt happening because of retail players lol. its happening because of huge petitions created by thousands of people who quit wow LONG ago. the psever crowd who refuses to play current/retail.
no. im pretty sure vanilla>retail. points at the op.
we are in this thread because a retail player refuses to accept the version that blizzard is releasing, ignores every single bit of information that was confirmed by blizzard themselves.
its like having two different ice cream’s in front of you. instead of eating the one you DO like, you yell and scream about the other one that you DONT have to touch. its toxic, its stupid and these are the people that classic is NOT being made for.
I keep coming back to this. WoW has a horrible “financial record”? Do you have numbers to back that up? Sure it’s had its ups and downs and right now it’s definitely at a low point, but to say that it’s anything other than the most successful MMORPG of all time, and probably in the financial sense, is downright wrong.
Even more so, it would not have happened without the game proposal(s) before the Library of Congress when it did its required Section 1201 review under the DMCA. Vanilla’s DMCA protections were in jeopardy. Having an active product removed that threat.
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right, right.
classic clearly isnt happening because of the thousands of people who demanded it. like the 18k people on Nost alone. said people who havent touched wow since before BC.
but yet its because of retail players who could give two cents about vanilla, let alone its remake. said retail players demanded for classic for the sole purpose of seeing how much of said remake they can get changed aka turn it into a reboot and thus, NOT actually be vanilla.
apparently, as long as it has the title alone, it validates the complete creation of an entire new game that never existed.
i dont know if its the lack of common sense or just trolling but either way, logical thinking doesnt seem to be a strong point with you people. ![:roll_eyes:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/roll_eyes.png?v=6" ":roll_eyes:")
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This has absolutely nothing to do with classics launch and it has nothing to do with it being unable to launch given the circumstance of wow shutting down years ago.