That’s easy… What’s after Vanilla? It’s TBC. They will release TBC - Classic. Then WoTLK Classic, and after 15 years from now, behold the BFA - Classic. LOL.
Dunno. Depends on what Blizzard does with the WoW franchise.
There is certainly a market for game modes like classic. Just look at the junk people play on Steam for years.
You are always going to have players that want to play Vanilla. If they introduce TBC servers then you are going to split the playerbase once again.
Let’s say hypothetically that 100k people are playing classic wow right before TBC comes out. Now let’s say about half of those people decide to transfer to TBC instead of remaining on Vanilla.
Congratulations, you just lost half the playerbase on one game. Now all the raid teams need to find new players, which they probably won’t find, and the economy would fail.
I don’t know you all played the same patch for up to a year and a half at one point… so I’m going with that.
read my response up there!
Do you honestly think the no changes crowd is going to want a chat that connects the chats between games?
No. They wont release TBC Classic while Vanilla Classic is there. Give Vanilla Classic around 3 to 4 years. When everyone is done, start TBC Classic.
So where do the players that want Vanilla go? Back to private servers?
it’ll keep classic vanilla viable. lets say you’re on your 30 paladin on classic vanilla but this character is also on classic tbc, since tbc has its own version of vanilla. you can level that same char on both versions of the game. log outta one and into the other.
lets say someone needs a healer for classic vanilla sunken temple and advertises it in global chat (chat tab on your chat box, can turn it off if you dont want it), but you happen to be playing your warrior in nagrand. if you see the advert, you can send a reply to the advertiser, tell them you have a healer that can do it, log outta tbc and on to vanilla, and off ya go.
Play BFA… Or release TBC Classic once Vanilla Classic is finished.
Vanilla, TBC and WoTLK are all worthy of coming back.
That still doesn’t answer my question. Where do the players who only want vanilla go to play?
read my response! lol
I have man, I just don’t see it happening honestly, I’m sorry. I’m not saying it wouldn’t work, but getting the classic community to actually go through with it when they are so headstrong about having no changes, it just won’t happen.
I think in reality people are not realizing that for your average player it will take them months simply to hit 60. It will take them months to clear each respective tier of content. Not everyone plays the game simply to min/max, rush to end game and clear everything instantly.
For many the game will offer countless years of enjoyment, prior to the notion of needing new content emerging. The reason classic is amazing which seems to be over-looked by many people that post (with a retail mindset) is that the entire game is an epic experience. Everything has purpose and meaning and everything you do is an act of progression that feels rewarding.
The simple act of leveling, getting new talents, working on professions. Traversing the massive world which is immersive and poses actual threats is something I hope people take a step back to enjoy. The content has been cleared and those that want to do it will clear it, but I honestly feel that having your primary goal of simply rushing to end game to clear the old raids is a myopic mindset that will result in a less full experience.
I truely feel people are overlooking the amount of time it will take to be completely BiS in Nax gear. Sure getting completely BiS gear is most people’s goal (myself included) however for me I will be enjoying every second of the ride up to that point. There is so much to enjoy and do on the way which is something that unfortunately has been over the years in retail with the new expansions.
its just a chat tab option. aint nothing to go thru with. if you dont want to know, ya just dont select that as a chat tab option. all thats happening is your advertising to the same group of people you levelled with on classic vanilla cause its global only for the same server name. both tbc and vanilla would have same server names.
lets say you have stormrage vanilla. you’d also have stormrage tbc and those two would be connected by global chat only as a chat tab option that can be turned off. but if you need a geared tank for your vanilla naxx run, you can boot up the global chat tab and advertise to the entire stormrage server chain, for a geared tank. then if someone is on tbc playing their mage and happens to have a geared naxx ready tank on vanilla but still needs naxx gear, they can send a tell that they will go, and you’re off and running.
You’re right.
People have been playing on private servers since Vanilla was out. 15 years and counting on private servers. There will always be a population. And since its linked to the “modern” game, it has fallback value with expansion exhaustion.
For starters, you are wrong, it’s not going to take months for players to hit 60. We don’t have dial-up internet these days, and the majority of players aren’t clickers.
The simple fact of the matter is, the way people played the game in 2004 is going to be vastly different in 2019.
Edit: The reason it took months to hit 60 back then is because everything was new. MMORPGS were still a fresh thing back then, not so much now.
it does not have to last forever! wow players can be so weird about this
play until you are bored and move on ffs
If you play around 2 hours a day and do nothing but grind levels, you’ll be 60 in about 6 months.
4 hours a day, about 3 months.
No lifer, 2 weeks to a month if you have a job.
ps numbers are small in the scheme of things. they may feel crowded but 10k players is nothing in todays market
only the biggest one left has that many people too, most are much smaller