What if Classic is Blizzard's way of tricking us into being appreciative of what we have in Retail?

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Makes sense to me.

“You want Classic? We’ll give you classic.”

Casual classic players stop complaining about retail and playing classic. Non-casuals keep playing classic and are happy. Either way, Blizzard wins.

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Or there’s you know money to be had, but that’s silly this multi billion dollar company cares what I’m complaining about in a virtual world…

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I think it’s meant to appeal to people who want to work for their hobby instead of just dabble in it. Let them have it as far as I’m concerned. Also its easy money for Blizzard.

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I mean…virtual worlds MADE them billions so…

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It would explain the horrible - and largely avoidable - queue times.

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So do to the players. So what’s your problem?

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I am not a fan of BfA, nor am I a fan of Classic, but in BfA, I get make the tedium go faster because I can FINALLY fly. Now, they release TBC, then I’ll likely never log back into retail. At least not while this dev team/management team is at the helm.

Semper Fi! :us:

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No problem. I support it. I’m playing both lol. There’s just so many ungrateful people out there who aren’t happy with either.

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Meh :woman_shrugging:

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If that’s the case we would of never got you think you do, but you don’t and Classic would’ve been out years ago so… lol

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This is exactly what has happened with me. Classic has made me way more appreciative of the things I take for granted in retail. Don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying it for what it is/was but I don’t think I’ll last very long. Huge regression in gameplay from the current and it’s only saving grace is ‘community’.

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I installed it and got to the character creation screen. Seen the female Dwarf, had a good hysterical laugh and added 10 more things to my to-do list in BfA. Good times.

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pretty much sums up this or any topic: Classic is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there. then again I don’t really like all the diablo or bfa in my warcraft either, so there’s that.

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I like both versions, but iam thinking it was more of a cost effective way to push sub numbers up and it worked… maybe probing what the playerbase is hungry for with a future expac? Purely anecdotal but i think people want an exploration, no crisis expac… you know, give us dragon isles, and revamped zones for high level content… we havent rebuilt the from cata to the legion, and bfa.

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That would be an awful lot of time, effort, and money just to make a point. Also, a lot of people genuinely like Classic.

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Classic is three things:

  1. Protecting their own IP by offering it so
    Private servers are pointless.

  2. Making money.

  3. Bfa recruitment tool. “Bfa is all over the launcher and youre basically already paying for it…”. We may also eventually see some cross promotion from classic to bfa. It might be mounts earned or maybe even level boosts in bfa if you play classic.

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I won’t deny, playing Classic did make me appreciate retail more.

If they would just work out the Horde story, I’d be content.