It’s gonna be interesting, because I’d bet that the more populated Classic servers are gonna feel like they’re bigger even if they’re not simply due to no shards, phases, or even continents splitting the playerbase up, which will no doubt act as a strong driver for people claiming Classic is bigger.
Not completely true. If you don’t raid you can still pvp or do professions or even just enjoy the game, as many did back in the day. I doubt raiders will be as low as the 1% it was in vanilla. There will be plenty of raiding guilds and it wont be too hard to find a raid spot. By the time the raiders have full BIS Naxx gear, we should know whether or not a TBC server or rollback is happening. If neither of those happen, many players will likely move to TBC or fresh vanilla private servers.
Ya, this is the big one that people will overlook. I’ll definitely enjoy a populated Ironforge in Classic though.
Maybe for old times sake, I’ll hook up my old potato computer, so I get 1 fps and fall in the lag pit.
Nothing. I do think once the nostalgia wears down from playing Classic that it will become as dead as people are claiming Retail is right now. We see people in these forums complaining all the time about the grinding in BfA, yet they are also praising Classic for its gameplay. They’ll be in for a rude awakening, though.
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In my opinion (no proof: my belief) the only reason for creating Classic is to shut up the constant forum complainers.
For YEARS we have had to put up with daily complaints “Ooh, Vanilla was so much better” and “current WoW is terrible compared to Vanilla”.
Well, starting in August all those veteran players will be able to play Vanilla again. Hopefully they will quickly learn it is just as bad as Legion, WoD or BFA. Their “fond memories” were based on the PLAYER being new to the game, not the game being better.
That explains why it is on the same subscription: the whole purpose is to shut up complaints about the current expansion. Nobody expects players to like it better.
^This. 100%.
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I think one key difference between the two is that Vanilla has little to no timegating… if you want to grind out The Timbermaw faction from Hostile to Exalted in a week, nothing is stopping you, whereas with BfA factions you’re gonna hit daily hard stops. That will probably dampen the complaining at the very least.
dejavu, lol.
What will happen? M.O.T.H.E.R has said it will self destruct in 77 days and everyone will love Classic, leaving retail to be an empty soulless virtual husk of itself.
… NOTHING will happen. Obviously. ![:roll_eyes:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/roll_eyes.png?v=6" ":roll_eyes:")
I don’t think Classic will damage retail. As long as people are with Blizzard, they’re probably happy.
I think it will for sure have an impact on retail if it’s super successful though. Classic is finite by definition, so if it’s so much more successful than retail, they will want to bring what makes it so successful over to the evolving version of the game.
The people that want to play classic already aren’t playing live, they’re either just unsubbed or playing on private servers. It won’t make a difference.
You seem to think they can’t see who is logging into which game. They don’t need to separate the subscriptions to know how many people are playing Classic versus retail.
On the claim that most will play one or the other, but not both. That both are included in a single subscription is accepted and well-documented fact.
My point remains the same. I want my money to show that I support classic only. Not both, not retail. Not so they can twist their MAU numbers to make their retail ![:poop:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/poop.png?v=6" ":poop:")
pile look good/ better.
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The fact that you will only be logging into Classic will show that you support Classic. Not logging into retail will likewise show that you don’t support retail.
You seem to think that if we can’t see who’s playing what that Blizzard will choose to be blind to it as well. If players suddenly abandon retail, Blizzard is going to notice, and they’re going to react.
It is kind of interesting to read the forums as someone who was kind of part of the Runescape community during OSRS announcement. Pretty much the same community perception.
Won’t happen, best you move on to a new game
Blizzard won’t care. They’re still getting money.
Lots of people will come back for Classic.
Retail will lose some of its users.
JUST FOR FUN SPECULATION:
- 30% drop in retail MAU after classic launch
- 2.5million active classic users first month of classic
- 1.5million active classic after 3 months
- Retail won’t regain ground until 9.0
That’s my guess.
Retail will have a massive drop in players for two weeks to a month, then everyone who still enjoys retail will go back to playing it.
Classic will continue on its own for several years with a smaller playerbase than retail until eventually many years from now, the servers finally die out.
It wont last forever, but it will be worth it.
The life cycle will be short. There is no discovery phase, as everyone knows everything already, and almost everyone is planning on rushing to max in order to hit end game.
After they’ve added the last content, the clock will be ticking. People will leave when they’re done with the last raid, and without catch up, new people won’t be able to hop in to fill vacancies. Rapidly it will reach the point after that when players will find no one to group with.