I’m a Wrath baby, so I came in during the height of its popularity.
So many people long for the days of when WoW was “great”?
But what does that mean? Even the developers aren’t sure. That’s why they keep trying to recapture lighting in a bottle.
What made (past tense apparently) WoW “great” for you? What made you say about WoW “I have to play that game!”
When the game actually took effort. Hence, why Classic WoW is so popular and less people complain about it. You can’t have fun in retail when epics are as common as white items and you’re basically handed things on a silver platter for just logging on for a few minutes every day.
The ways how you can interact with other players, from the utility you uniquely provide with your class to how you can toy with the opposite faction.
It was so much better than EverQuest.
The devs listening to players thru vanilla/bc
Classic still gets an amazing amount of complaints and requests despite it being basically a static recreation of an old game.
Imagine if things like class balance was actually on the table how many meme spec threads we would get.
Community. I still love my taters <3
After all this time?
Always.
To me what made it great was the ability to solo to max level. Coming from Everquest where content at the time was soloable up to level 12 or 13. 
Even though it’s the same now it’s become 2 edged to me.
On one hand, if I want to avoid “Pat Toxic Player #32456”, I can and play the game in peace.
On the other hand, if I want to see more of the game, I miss out.
With my current schedule, I’m fine with the soloable content. To me that is still what makes it great to play. Well that and being labeled a Filthy Casual from time to time is quite entertaining. 
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Oh god… you’re probably serious. Let me laugh harder.
It’s nothing in comparison to how much the retail forums complain about the game. The people making requests are primarily those from outside the community, and those within the community are otherwise in agreement with others within the community. Heck, I just looked at it right now and one of the request was literally from a player pretending to be from Classic even though we can see their retail profile.
I am serious, and Blizzard has shown the numbers to prove it. Classic increased subs significantly.
The game have always been perfect, and always will be. The problem with wow today is the lack of community, back then even in wrath many people were not established.
Back then nobody cared if they saw a woman, or someone they could benefit from, you met doing a quest, and you formed groups. which then led us into making guilds.
Now a days, you have to be a woman, rich, or someone that can benefit others to get help, or even an invite, or other things. You don’t meet people that want to interact.
Its become more based on progress, and how fast, and how high you can go, and then brag, over just playing.
A bunch of folks will say that WoW was only great when the elitists ruled everything, when the best content was only available for the lucky few. When tools like LFG and LFR came about to free us from their gatekeeping, that’s when the complaining started.
Of course it did, it was the “new thing”. Interest plummeted immediately though, like anyone could have told you it would. Classic is a dead end nostalgia trip and it was always going to be.
Pretty sure the complaint threads started the day the opened the forums.
Classic increased subs, but didn’t hold on to them. That is per the Neilson site which tracks that sort of stuff.
Wow Tokens, haven’t paid for the game since they came out.
Yes, and after playing Classic for quite a while I realized it’s only for people who know how to spam 1 button no matter how committed they are. It’s fun, don’t get me wrong, but the entirety of it’s existence is a meme.
Fair point.
This complaint always make me giggle.
We need an add on that changes the text color of your gear from purple to blue. This would apparently stop a bunch of complaints.
For me, in the beta of Vanilla, it was the ! over npc’s heads.
I remember thinking, "This is more Ever Quest, than “Everquest”! "
Nah, I always soloed to max on my Wood Elf Druid.