I’m not being naive, I was around back then too man - and you’re ignoring everything else that was said. You already have changes in both private servers and classic.
It exists because you want the exact world that was created and then evolved from into what it is today, which you don’t like. You want to go back to that time. That’s nostalgia. Once you start playing and recognize why things were done and you have basically the same experience you had before, you will not be complaining any longer.
Reading some of these comments… Do people not KNOW about the fact that there are 6 content releases for Classic? Not everything is available at Classic launch.
Molten Core and Onyxia are the ONLY 2 raids in the game at launch. You won’t be running the same thing over and over again from the beginning. Its progressive.
The “no updates” argument doesn’t really exist. They’re emulating the updates into 6 phases. They’re by definition updates. But everything is old aynways so its not new. Its classic.
Every one of the 6 patch releases that will happen in Classic will see new content for us. Check it out.
Could you imagine if everything was available at launch? Like Naxx at classic launch??? LOL! That would be trash.
We have a couple years before either of these are a thing.
If Classic is a runaway hit Blizzard might entertain some kind of progression whether that is BC servers or whatever.
A lot of people just want an immersive game they can play for a long time. You’ve full cleared Naxx on your Warrior, but what about that Druid you just got to 60. I won’t be surprised to see this squeeze out at least a year+ of enjoyment by many WoW fans.
Classic WoW is the most “sandboxy” version of WoW, so I don’t see constant patches and content releases being a reason why the game will be successful. A museum is exactly what we asked for, and the responses so far have been overwhelmingly positive since the Beta went live.
I imagine most were alt accounts and gold sellers/farmers. I believe Nost peaked around 10k online towards the end. I’m not sure what Kronos is at now, but not counting them I think the other major pservers peak at around 15k combined. I think at best we have 100k people in the vanilla community, and might be able to pull in close to that long term converting retail players.
I think it is highly unlikely that we maintain anywhere near 1 millions players.
Either f r e s h vanilla servers after the naxx patch has been out a while or open up TBC servers that people can choose to move to, but I’d prefer if we weren’t forced to move.
This project will require little to no maintainence in the long term. If people dont want to play they wont. but blizzard would rather have people play here as opposed to pservers.
Retail expansions will continue to come, dont worry OP
If Classic is successful, it might have effects reaching into live, even if servers turn into ghost towns 3 years down the road. Even then, retail can’t hold down subs more than a few months currently.
So, basically, I’m hoping classic is a wake up call for ongoing retail development.
I don’t want to run Naxx forever. I want to run it at all.
Seriously, I will worry about playing a maintenance-mode game after I finish it. TBC came out well before most of us had a chance to see a lot of the end-game stuff, and there are also a bunch of classes I barely tried.
#NoChanges is about us getting a chance to do those things we didn’t get to do, or redo them. There will be nothing stopping Blizzard from keeping Classic around as long as there’s demand for it (which there is right now). Likewise, if it turns out that people do eventually want changes, additions, or expansions, there will be nothing stopping Blizzard from doing any of that.
The people who are always wondering what happens after naxx and not focusing on the journey from character creation on 8/27 to the end of KT are not 100% into wow classic. How about focusing on that next year or the year after yeah?
