What’s your guess? I have a feeling we will keep going till Shadowlands and beyond. MoP and WoD Classic will be good, Legion will be amazing, BFA and beyond…I really don’t know.
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There is two ways of thought here.
Classic could go until legion, where the fundamentals of the game was changed a lot, mostly due to Diablo devs coming onboard to WoW team.
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Classic will continue onward as by the time each expansion continues the next one is within the “classic” age, even by Legion Classic, OG BFA will be 11 years old.
A side note, I also think it will come down to community reception, as long as there is interest, they will continue to churn out the games, HOWEVER, the Classic team is clearly struggling with focus on balancing between SOD and Cata Classic, so should they continue onward, they really need to make a dedicated Classic team, and dedicated Classic + team, none of this back and forth miss management.
Nobody knows. Even the company itself. We still don’t know why they thought it was a good idea to have five different versions of the game running concurrently with overlapping prepatches and launches. It’s a mess.
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Once MoP ends is when classic will end.
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Do you even think we’ll get MoP classic? It will have been too soon since remix, which is one reason why its timing is kinda baffling. (And vice versa for why I doubt the next remix will be anything sooner than WoD)
You can’t compare remix to the actual thing.
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The real Classic Playerbase stopped at Wrath of the Lich King.
TBC and WotLK Era servers with the classic playerbases original copies of characters should be made available.
Allowing players to play through Vanilla Era and progress onto TBC Era and WotLK Era if they so choose.
Rotating Arena Seasons every 12 - 16 weeks offset between TBC and WotLK Era would be best allowing those who wish to compete on the ladders the ability to play on both.
All realms clustered by Region and Realm Type.
No changes, no updates, just as the expansions were then. No WoW Token added to Classic, as promised by Blizzard.
The real Classic Playerbase needs to voice themselves as much possible via: forums, twitter, and ultimately with the the strongest voice possible; unsubbing.
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Mechanically no, but it will still feel aesthetically “too soon.” A draw of classic is “let’s go back to…” which is hard to market when we’ve just been there.
I’d rather the version where vengeance was an uncapped AP buff for tanks and not a spec for a class.
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Stopping at BfA where all roles were insanely OP would be a triumphant closure of Classic. (Yes I was a member of the bear tank only raiding team.)
I really want to play WoD again. The class balance was peak and Ashran is based.
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I always side with business will make these choices. If MOP serves the purpose of creating and maintaining population bumps during slow times in TWW (and future expansions) then they will release the next until one comes along that doesn’t.
If we were to venture a guess on which one would do that… well… WOD would probably be the first one that could happen without some sort of reasonable change to the slate but they also know Legion probably will be a fairly big hit. So maybe they push though there, but it is hard to say. BFA is probably the next. SL is the one I just don’t see how the game would survive though. The problem with all these predictions after MOP is the power of nostalgia. Because we are talking years down the road it means years of separation would exist between when those games released and the re-release. While they certainly wouldn’t draw the same “classic” crowd the vanilla to current classic expansion people they could possibly draw a new era of nostalgia seekers from those eras.
So really it will just all be in the numbers. Once you hit an expansion relaunch that is truly dead and not just forum hot take dead is when you will start to see the relaunching stop. It is just to simple of a task to repackage and release old games for a smaller team.
I might add in that if they ever did come up with a real full blown Classic+ it could come to an end. But that will take a lot of time because it would be a true reimagination and a lot of work to get right. Unlike something like SOD it wouldn’t have the “seasonal” cope tag on it so if it bombed it would be devastating for them, thus, they probably would want to get it right immediately because once they jump out of that plane either the parashoot works or you are cratering into the ground.
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until people stop playing the progression servers, and then they’ll restart the whole thing.
Either MoP or Legion depending on how successful MoP Classic will be.
Ending at Legion Classic would be funny because thats where it all started.
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Still not.
This would mean nobody would want Wrath Classic because you can farm Invincible every week. Aesthetically “too soon”.
Remix was a fun game mode for retail. It appeals to retail players that want to have different way to level. It was never meant for the Classic crowd. Besides, MoP was most about class design, fun/hard raiding and peak pvp, which all dont exist in remix.
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The people running this dont care about aesthetics.
If I’m a game designer, I would keep the current pace of approximately one year per expansion. At this rate, the progression servers catch up with retail. Once that happens, I offer transfers for those characters to the retail servers, and I restart the progression servers with Vanilla Classic. That way players get to keep all those years of character bonding and progression if they so choose on retail, or they can start their journey fresh again with Vanilla Classic.
At this point, this is the only thing that makes sense to me from a game design perspective, since we’ve gone past WotLK Classic, which I, and many, considered the point of no return, and I now see absolutely no reason to exclude any expansion, especially given they can be made better with very minor tweaks.
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I think the 2 seasons theyve done mastery and discovery are tests for classic+. Like a live beta while they collect data on whats working and what isnt.
Like the runes in SoD are testing what abilities they should give each class in classic+.
Legion is my guess. I cannot see too many people wanting BFA Classic for obvious reasons. I think they will put WoD on a ridiculously fast cadence and get to Legion asap where there is actually quite a bit of demand. People want to revisit class halls and play the game with the ‘fixed’ legendary system.
As others have said, it most likely depends on player reception. Enough people voted for Cata, so they went forward with it.
I personally hope they stop at either MoP or WoD. I don’t like Legion, that’s where it feels like retail truly started. The class reworks in Legion killed the game for me. I also don’t like the borrowed powers or M+.