Gotta love the money andys, they always throw the money red pill at you. My dude, if private servers with absolutetly no funding and 1-3 devs can make classic+ why would it be expensive for blizzard to do it being a multi billion dollar company, and classic having half a million subscribers playing?
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You mean thinking logically as a business would?
Right now the overhead costs for Classic are low, so to Blizzard itâs easy money. But if they have hire a team of 100 people to come build new content, their costs just went way up with no clear return on the investment. So from their monetary point of view, itâs better to recycle pre-made content then invest in something new.
Youâre absolutely delusional if you think you need a team of 100 people to do classic+. Take your meds and go to bed, you know nothing of game development.
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Classic+ or Classic+ with Phase 7 will never happen because the talent has left the building. Wrath is the end of the road.
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Lot of bizarre assumed numbers here with no citation.
Than enlight me with your knowledge, what numbers do you find bizarre, do you have a good source to prove otherwise?
They go back to rtail for a month or two bud, numbers dont lie. Retail is in its worst spot ever
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For changes in progression Classic - TBCC and Wrath Classic (and beyond if that happens).
Whether they go ham with seasonal play remains to be seen.
That is probably what Iâm looking at with my guild.
If - and thatâs a big if - I stay I will being going back to Classic Era.
Most likely will play co-op BG3 until something else comes along.
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I think itâs a massive oversight to ignore classic+
Look at the biggest game that did this right, runescape.
OSRS is the majority of their player base because the main game went down the horrendous path like retail wow.
Both âretailâ versions of either game is full of bloat and paid nonsense.
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Thatâs not what classic is.
Classic is a way for them to make money off of content thatâs already been developed so it costs them virtually nothing, itâs 100% profit.
Classic + would take development time and be expensive to produce, so itâs not pure profit, they wonât do it. Unless you wanted to pay for it separately.
They also said Legacy servers will never be a thingâŠ
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Blizzard also said many, many times that they would never release Vanilla servers again.
Classic+ will absolutely happen if and only if Blizzard thinks it will be profitable. Thatâs why they send out surveys.
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i think they pushed themselves into a corner not leaving up servers for every expansion. now they must do classic plus if they want people to continue playing classic. they could do so much classic content just added onto the exsisting vanilla servers, in example vanilla hyjal and uldum, kharazhan crypts emerald dream northern plaguelands. they could also pull from zones and raids added in later expansions just tweak some encounters and what not. just keep it all scaled 1-60 never increase level cap, and bufff certain things in the game thru itemization. this would turn the game into a massive sandboxx mmorpg with tons of build diversity. and please questline to cleanse corrupted ashbringer.
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Blizzard will never do Classic+ and the only way it would happen is for the community to do it themselves. Blizzard lacks the will and imagination. They are a company who is in the business of making money. Classic+ would be more like a passion project that would not be certain to make a profit for them.
Classic has piggy-backed off of the retail subscription since it came out. They have been able to capture revenue from the segment of the community who has departed as WoW has continued to develop through the expansions. After Wrath, the story has been a declining subscription count. Wrath was the peak. After Wrath, people would either quit the game, or they would buy the expansion and play it for a couple months until the next expansion.
Itâs not clear how many Classic players would be willing to re-roll a fresh character, or if they happened to clone their characters into Classic after TBC came out (Era never had many players.) - and cloning was never free, which was probably why Era was never successful.
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Classic+ would have more hype than retail expansions, itâs insane to think otherwise. They would be stupid to not do it.
And I say more, if they donât do it itâs purely a question of ego, because it would be a admitting that retail kinda sucks and people are more interested in this version of the game that the current devs have nothing to do with.
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Nobody would play unless they are XP-boosted to 60, or if they happen to have 60âs on Era already. The private server community didnât mind leveling fresh every couple years, but the vast majority of WoW players nowadays donât have enough patience for that type of game.
What? if they ever release classic+ it would never be on era servers, that would be utterly stupid.
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Then the entire community would be forced to start over at level 1. That will be a turn-off for a lot of people. Blizzard would have to implement rapid gear progression and 2x or 3x leveling - at that point itâs closer to retail in some ways.
You just donât get it, starting an MMO fresh with everyone is probably the most fun and exciting part of playing these types of games.
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They are not even classic anymore with all the changes they have made.
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