Isn’t it obvious? Classic will fail because half life 3 is secretly being developed by the Illuminati and they don’t want classic hype to get in the way of their masterpiece.
For the most part, yeah. New and improved is a real phrase in most cases. IE: Windows 95 as compared to Windows 10. However, new is not always better. Eventually it falls on personal preference or demand.
Blizzard releasing Classic met a demand from its player base. A big plus in my book. Sure it’s an older game but it sure has a demand and following. More power to them. Like anything we each have to find what it is that we enjoy. It will be entertaining to see how it plays out.
Until then, I got lots of 
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ready to go doing what I enjoy.
Cheers folks.
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Talking about Classic as a “fail/succeed” enterprise misses the point.
It doesn’t have to do either. The whole point of it is just to exist. Blizzard’s only goal is just to make it available. They’ve said point blank that however good or bad it does, it’s not going anywhere.
You’re stating Classic will “fail”.
What do you mean? That Blizzard will just shut down all servers after a given amount of time? I don’t see that happening.
Classic is just a side order of fries with the burger that is retail. It doesn’t hurt Blizzard to keep those servers up and running, even if the playerbase drops off. It’s just offering more ways to enjoy WoW.
I’d go as far as to say that Classic will end up being the hold-over option in between patches and expansions when players have cleared all available content in retail.
Defeated the latest raid for the umpteenth time, and it’ll be a couple of months before the next patch? Jump with your guild over to Classic and grind out a new class until then.
Classic isn’t going anywhere, and will most likely lead to BC and Wrath servers in the future.
I don’t think Blizzard is in any position to be playing tinfoil hat long term public relations shenanigans right now. Their stock dropped 50% at one point last year. Shareholders want to know wtf. They need money, now, or more people are going to lose their jobs. Classic is a move to boost subs, for low cost. It’s that simple. Nobody who values their job wants it to fail.
These threads are always ridiculous and I read them for hopefully some humor. With that said you should of done “Why retail will fail” Oh wait… it already did!!
Classic is the future of WoW and gaming entertainment.
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Hey look, the tauren troll is back to regurgitate his conjecture on why classic is destined to fail. Its funny, the reality of it is retail is so sub par, it’s doing exactly what you predict will happen to classic: brought back a bunch, content drought, dull and awful content with worse class design than vanilla.
The insecurity of knowing retail is in such a tumultuous state that you cant but help put down an older game that had a successful track record. I wonder how many subs retail will have bled by summer 2020? All those “improvements” from classic yet theres still massive interest? Or all these massive improvements and bug fixes yet retail probably hasnt been this low since WoD.
Curious.
I guess I don’t understand the conflict between people who enjoy one over the other? I absolutely hate mustard, and prefer ketchup on a hotdog. I can’t imagine arguing with someone over mustard…
Both server types can exist and please different crowds.
/e puts on tinfoil hat.
I KNEW IT. This is why we need to raid Area 51 they have WOW 2 in there. We gotta free it upon the world
Well you’re over 15 years old and failing, so I guess the logic checks out?
This, and it will bring new people back. I may be in the minority, but it is bringing a group of 5 of us back that have not subscribed to WoW since cata.
I think it’s pretty hilarious that the entire player base that thinks Blizzard has failed with BfA also believes Blizzard won’t screw up Classic.
What the op doesn’t understand is the bugs are intentional. Blizzard stated very early that they are and have intentionally introduces bugs that were in vanilla. They recreated them. They are intentional.
And here folks we have a bfa troll in their natural environment.
See howt they make up false information and than will retort with an angry reply.
I don’t know if you got an intelligent response because I honestly couldn’t keep scrolling through posts. So I’ll take a shot at it.
As far as I can tell, you’re not happy with retail and believe that activision/blizzard/theman is deliberately sabotaging the classic game to unsure it fails and send people back to retail.
This thinking is flawed for a number of reasons.
- Because of subscription fees, an influx of players into classic adds revenue, which makes it unlikely that anyone has an issue with it.
- If they deliberately make the game flawed, it will be obvious and it is likely they would lose subscriptions beyond what classic brings in.
- It’s unlikely they would advertise classic, they barely advertise retail. The last real attempt to hype a game that way was Wraith and it somewhat backfired as the game moved away from it’s old feel and subsriptions began to drop.
- There was a “Restoring History” at Blizz-con that explained the issues they were having restoring the game on their new engine. That explains the bugs and animations, they are working on fixing it. Stress tests from my understanding isn’t going super well either, but they will get it there.
- The retail team isn’t touching classic, why would the classic team want to fail. Not sure it’s true, but it sounds like the success of classic may determine retails future including which team gets to do retail after 1.10.
- I wouldn’t expect server announcements until a couple weeks before launch. Not sure how many servers they will do, but I’m guessing five at most. They probably want the names to reflect history and be epic surprises for players.
- I’d be shocked if forums beyond classic forum get made until they know if it will be worth it.
8.Lastly, the late release date. I can’t argue it. It’s possible they needed the time they needed and nothing more, but I tend to agree that the timing feels suspect. For the most part however, those who played classic originally are 25-45 years old, so summer means nothing to us, we don’t get summer break.
All said and done, you seem paranoid about classic, but it doesn’t look like you experienced classic. I’m not saying that to be elitist, I’m just saying, we put up with a lot of issues with classics original launch and 100%, this will be smoother than that.
Don’t worry so much, it’s going to be good.
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Well if it’s just a recreation it’s difficult to screw it up. But if there were to be additional content, like like classic +, it’d 100% be ruined for sure.
If Blizzard was just re-releasing Classic in its original form it wouldn’t take this long.
They’re making changes.
Only mandatory technological changes. Like battle net stuff and layering for phase 1 etc.
Same here, about 20 members of my old guild are coming back. Our guild disbanded mid-Cata, but Classic is bringing us back.
Engineer to fail? Don’t make me laugh, it will take a lot more than that to sabotage the return of a legend - and even if it does fail, it sure wont help revitalize our current iteration of retail.