With a bunch of low pop/dead servers currently in TBC, why would Blizzard further dilute the playerbase by releasing Classic seasons right in the middle of TBC? What’s the reasoning for this-- is Blizzard unhappy with the way TBC is going or something? I mean it’s not like WoW right now has an overflowing population like it once did (a decade+ ago), so… why split up the playerbase even more lol
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Because the players that want to play vanilla classic aren’t playing TBC. You can’t split the playerbase if a portion of it are unwilling to play the current expansion. Same reason none of us are playing retail.
Also there are tons of players who would play both and have the spare time to do so.
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I don’t know about that one friend. If nobody from TBCC/retail wants to play classic… then who does? I really doubt people who aren’t currently subbed to WoW are all of a sudden going to resub just for classic…
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You can doubt all you want, people like you doubted classic for years and it still happened.
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I think it is more likely that Classic just ends up sucking up players from TBCC and Retail, further fragmenting a community that had already been spread thin. I think a lot of players that are stuck without xfers on low pop/dying realms in TBCC will jump ship to Classic season.
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Well I guess doom and gloom is to be expected from someone with a username like yours.
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I feel like classic re-re-released is gonna be pretty dead. Maybe a lot of players for like 2 weeks till they realize they gotta raid log MC again
I would think it has to do with bringing back so many of the people who realized that they actually preferred WoW Classic to TBC Classic, and stopped playing.
It’s difficult to make predictions, because we don’t really know. It will be interesting to see though.
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It will be interesting to see what happens. I’ll be playing a character there but I do plan to do so fairly casually while also playing/raiding in TBCC.
I’m honestly seeing A TON of raid logging in TBCC. My guild during Classic always had 15-20 on at peak times, especially during the MC days but even at like the end of AQ40 and other “off” times. Right now I’m online with one other person. Last night 3 of us were on, at peak hours on a non raiding day. This has never happened before in 2 years. Very few people just raid logged. I’d think it was just my guild but from what I’m seeing this is happening everywhere. TBCC seems to be the raid logging expansion despite there being a lot to do on the surface.
I don’t think Classic Fresh is going to kill TBCC though and I do think that most people who plan to play that won’t be playing both.
In my short time in Classic (quit around 2 months in) I met a LOT of people who never planned to moved to TBC, these people are what they’re trying to get back.
A sub is a sub, Blizz doesn’t care what version they’re playing.
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The by product of having 25 man raids. Guilds are smaller.
Everything feels smaller in TBC.
they’re going to be ghost towns you have to be deluding yourself to not see it, the vaaaaaaaast majority of players who wanted the classic experience already got all of it and very recently. it’s going to be classic again just with 500x less players only very small amount of private server boys will want in and even they probably won’t stick with it long-term. it’s going to be a disaster and there’s going to be a million videos of wowtubers talking about how dead it is oh boy
None of my friends that played NAXX wants to go back there! There’s that!
How dare they make things people want to play, people should be forced to play the one I want so I can have easy groups.
Ban all other hobbies, too. They are fragmenting the playerbase. Sue other video game developers for making games because they are fragmenting the playerbase.
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What? Lol you’re crazy
Maybe it happened, but I checked this morning, /who 1-60 gave me 10 people online. If it was so good then why is no one playing it anymore?
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Fully progressed with no timing of fresh, people don’t stick around when there’s nothing to do.
Classic only people are probably playing pservers atm.
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People I know who are interested in Season of Mastery want to play both. There’s so little to do off-raid nights in TBC that…why not. You can join a SoM Classic raid guild that raids on your TBC guild’s off-nights and boom, more classic wow retro-fun throughout the week.
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i dunno, seasons might be interesting. blizzard games are fun in spurts, i’ve been playing diablo 2 and wc3 off and on since the early 00s. only problem is wow needs people, d2 wc3 are solo
There’s already a row of mostly empty classic realms. Blizzard somehow looks at this and thinks, “clearly we need more classic realms.” Keep in mind that they do practically nothing to help realm populations as well.