This was literally… LITERALLY the very first thing announced about Classic WoW. If you didn’t hear them specifically specify that it was a server option, then I have to question if you have been following its development at all…
Its a server option that will utilize a different client. Just the way the demo did, and in some cases of betas and and even PTR does at times. Many people who couldnt connect to the demo normally got connected instead by downloading the main game until it said “Playable” then trying again, or creating a level 1 on retail and then choosing the classic servers from the server selection screen as the Blue posts says here:
Indicating that they are indeed linked. They are TREATED as two separate games in regards to things like transmog, but they are specifically not two separate games.
To anyone who’s falling for these nonsense posts, Classic is 100% its own separate client, separate install. And it’s not worth dignifying those posts with a response.
I’ll let someone else generate the link.
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Restoring History: Creating WoW Classic
Timestamp approximately 6:23
We also encountered other problems here in that the team could only ever work on one patch at a time.
This was quickly rectified, and we're now able to work on multiple patch schemas at a time.
WoW Client is the WoW Client.
BfA is one schema
Retail Development is the second schema
WoW Classic is another schema
plus however many other sub-schema they have ongoing.
Right. Everything I read, even tweets from Blizzard employees just one day ago, indicated they were scared layoffs were coming soon, but didn’t know when or who would get hit.
Not without a seperate keyboard at a minimum, and then you’d be keyboard turning, as its likely to be more responsive than waiting on the phone’s gyro.
They’d have to radically redesign the game to work on a phone without need for 3rd party peripherals.
Now for Retail, they could do some additional things with a phone client.
But for Classic all it would be useful for is chat, maybe in-game mail, and the auction house.
No. They have specified when asked about “games” and clarified that its a server option. They have told you to “think of it as two separate games” to help people understand why things like transmog won’t transfer to your BFA account:
Pay specific attention to the context they are using these statements in… Or you could just look at the link I posted again where they very specifically stated that classic is a server option… No stuttering, no nothing. It was plainly stated. It merely uses a different client. Im not sure what else you guys expected? Im trying to imagine what you thought was going to happen here…
I should point out that the debate was somebody claiming that Classic would be a server option within the BfA client.
Which that is not something Blizzard has ever said. To the best of our knowledge, Classic will run on a modified 7.3.5 client like the Blizzcon demo did.
If Classic does indeed bring back all the old players and it puts a massive strain on their support services, I hope corporate regrets firing their employees.
I was part of that discussion topic/thread. That specific quote was in relation to getting the Vanilla CE pets in WoW Classic. It doesn’t have much relevance in regards to much else beyond other items which were obtained during Vanilla’s run which came from outside the game itself and cannot (reasonably) be obtained anywhere inside or outside of the game at this point.
Wrong, it’ll be running a modified version of the current client. Because the current client will contain security patches/fixes/updates that 7.3.5 does not, and they’re not going to leave Classic open to exploits that are closed on the newer client.
The Client (engine) versions will be largely synchronized going forward, although that will provide chances for additional confusion for many over time as not every retail “client update” was actually an update to the engine, but rather an update to the data being used by the engine.
I don’t see how it is practical or even possible for them to create Classic using 7.3.5 and 1.12.1, resulting in an entirely new client 1.13.xxxxx (where these old exploits etc are in fact closed)-- and then, do all the work to move it to whatever current version patch BfA is on. How is that possible?
I think you guys are confused about the way Classic will work as a drop-down option in the WoW section of the battlenet launcher. The different clients there can be anything that the devs want to put up there.
This is the concerning part because Activision’s stated focus in the announcement that they will be shifting to boosting profits and focusing on efforts that are in alignment with their long term strategy.
I think Classic is a passion project for Blizzard, not Activision, and I think it’s pretty clear now that Blizzard is not the autonomous partner in “Acivision-Blizzard” that it once was.
The only thing I see Classic WoW as at this point is to make the legal stick bigger to beat up private servers with. They’re doing it to say Classic WoW which is rightfully a much different game from current WoW isn’t abandon ware.