WB's Weren't the Mania in Vanilla They Are Now

[Wilburr-herod]

@Porscha-proudmoore

Likely because 15 yrs ago most people had jobs, or real jobs, where they couldn’t spare 1-2 hrs on a weekday to run around getting WB’s for a video game.

Not sure about you but 15 years ago I was 15. I had a lot more time then then I do now.

@Porscha-proudmoore

When I see someone with all WB’s, including rend and other over the top stuff, I think…“Man dude, how long you been unemployed?”

I’m employed and work full time and would get world buffs. What are you on about?

@Porscha-proudmoore

And now parses will replace achievements in the real world, which I guess makes sense. When you have a “Mcjob” or no job at all, parses become a real sense of achievement.

I do think parses are dumb, but if that is what some players care about then so be it. They pay for there sub, they can play how they want to.

Lets just put this out there too. I hate world buffs. I spent the first 6-7 months of Classic getting full world buffs before every raid. Then I rerolled and joined a guild that did not require them so I stopped. Most people in the guild still got them every week though.

[Xanthak-durotan (Xanthak)]

Uhm No. In fact the opposite.

We had time. Tons of time because we MADE time. Yes, we all had jobs and responsibilities but we made it work. Vanilla was far more time consuming because it was progressive, not gated. We didn’t have the luxury of foresight. So this mean scholo/strath 2 hour runs, MC even on farm at patch took 2 hours. And keep in mind that progressive raiders were running this schedule for 2 years. Not the 3 weeks Classic players did, who then proceeded to fold like lawn chairs.

But the reason why world buffs wasn’t fully explored was because of exactly that. Time.

And in addition, server firsts were a thing. If we just happened to drop the head, do you think we’d tell other guilds? No way. We didn’t even share strats.

A progressive game is far different.

[Qbert-fairbanks]

@Porscha-proudmoore

Likely because 15 yrs ago most people had jobs, or real jobs, where they couldn’t spare 1-2 hrs on a weekday to run around getting WB’s for a video game.

Nope, 99% of the reason for the world buff insanity is warcraftlogs .com

[Bearhands-faerlina]

That’s pretty reductionist. For one, log sites have existed for a decade. But also people would be pushing regardless of whether they had a log site or not.

If anything, warcraftlogs saved Classic. Without it a lot of people would have quit much much earlier.

[Kerg-bloodsail-buccaneers]

@Esperia-whitemane

They weren’t a thing in vanilla as much because there was no server-wide communication, organization, and planning.

There were the realm forums, which basically served the function of server discords back then. They were used to track guilds’ raid progress, etc. There was Teamspeak/Ventrilo.

People just didn’t think of coordinating, calendaring, and synchronizing world buffs, and it didn’t have time to evolve into a meta. If it would have, Blizzard would have certainly nerfed them into the ground, as they eventually did in TBC.