Private servers are “independent”
Classic is attached to retail.
thanks for that caption obvious
Not sure why Blizz would not continue to make separate expansion servers. More subs = more money. All players really want is 1. To play the version they loved most. 2. That it is stable, hack, bot, and grief free.
Now now, no need to get petulant.
Classic has the luxury of being associated with a much larger population and official support that doesn’t exist for those pservers.
Of course, the difference is the pay model and what happens to retail.
How can you say that when it hasn’t even been released yet?
Classic wow is literally 10000x better than runescape ever was… OS runescape… I remember the first time I saw my friend playing it. I asked him if he played World of Warcraft and he said “no, but this is runescape”. Even 10 year old me knew that runescape was straight up trash. I feel that comparing the two is pointless.
i was just trying to say that private servers are no indication that classic will hold lots of players for a long time
if anything they show that it will be niche
Exactly this
Behold everyone… these two have found the answers… they KNOW what will happen. Why has blizzard not hired you yet?
next option:
classic+
classic+ would be based on classic vanilla but have some retail friendly features such as retail models as default and guild banks. it could have new dungeons and raids that were originally planned but never finished such as karazhan crypts and emerald dream. it could finally allow alliance to have high elves and horde to have ogres. the classes could get a 4th spec. etc
oh and it would be separate from museum classic
Mmm not exactly. Both are oldschool MMORPGS and the fact that osrs is continuing to grow shows that there is indeed a market for oldschool mmo’s.
The difference is that OSRS continues to add to the game.
I don’t even know what to say to this here.
In order to play Beta, you have to be a subscriber to WoW. Logging into Classic uses the same Bnet launcher as “retail”. And Blizzard (and mostly everyone) expects an influx of “tourists”, of which a large portion will be current WoW retail players.
So what issue do you think exists?
I would play “mount your friends” before I would play OSRS… RS… or any incarnation of that web browser game.
not even blizzard is calling this a major release. its a classic game made by a small team, to go along side their other classic games.
Ok but that is YOU. OSRS does indeed have a decent playerbase, even larger than RS3’s. Just because you don’t like the facts doesn’t make them false.
And who is arguing that the game is going to be the next hot thing on the market? I have literally only heard people talk about the “growing success of OSRS” on this forum… no one that I know plays that game because that game was trash in 2004 and its trash now.
“blizzard should update the game because OSRS updated their game and they have a growing playerbase”
Except pservers prove that vanilla does hold an interest from players for a long time.
Blizzard doesn’t really care how many stay. They’ve said as much themselves.
But it’s true?
see my responses above!