I mean well sure, fair enough.
I mean, I’d hope not.
Too bad I don’t quite have the time these days that it takes to git gud for Classic TBC.
There’s nothing more than twiddling your thumbs while your energy/rage/mana regenerates to press a button to git gud in Classic.
Unless you’re saying that handling one or two mechanics is hard.
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Ah, I meant gear progression. Didn’t it take 5.5 hours to gain half a level? By the time you’re 70 you’ve already spent 110 hours. And then you got heroic 5-man attunements and Kara to do, which I’m sure is even more grueling. The only difference is: people will know the shortcuts.
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Yeah agreed. Information made it trivial.
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any time someone says this without sources, i feel like i lose roughly 8 braincells
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But, it’s objectively better. Youre basically saying that op can’t say that wow is an objectively better game than pong. And it is.
Classic TBC is the only thing making retail look like it didnt die in 9.0. Since a sub is for both they can say, look retail is doing great.
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At least throw 1 or 2 Daredevil lures in there so it looks like you know what you’re doing.
I wouldn’t draw those sorts of conclusions from those numbers. I’m assuming this data is from people with add-ons reporting this stuff. It’s not the most accurate way since we are talking about two different games, and not everybody has these add-ons.
Assuming this is accurate, the only thing this says is that more people are currently killing gruul than denathrius… As far as I know, there is only one difficulty in BC. For this to be the most accurate, you need to include the data for Normal, Heroic, and Mythic, and possibly LFR when citing these metrics if you are comparing the two raids in this way, depending on what conclusion you are trying to draw.
Second of all, TBC classic is new, so naturally more people are going to be doing this… Only a certain percentage of players do raiding in the first place, and a lot of the players in shadowlands have been doing denathrius long enough to where not as many are doing it at this time, plus 9.1 is just around the corner, so people are waiting for that.
I agree that the gameplay is better in BC and in Vanilla in my opinion. Or at least more enjoyable of an experience. I doubt BC is going to kill retail, but I think in the future they will make some significant changes in order to address what people are saying. It’s not going to be overnight but slowly ofer a period of time most likely. The details I’m not going to speculate… They actually have serious competition now though, so it would be stupid of them to dismiss this factor and act as if they are untouchable as far as their competition.
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Wow is better than Pong ? Well that’s like, your objective opinion, man. 
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No, classic TBC will not kill retail.
I am having fun in classic, but I miss many of the things retail have to offer. Like transmog, mount/pet/toy journal, and dungeon LFG.
Also, the leveling pace is a lot slower than in retail unless you have a group to run with or someone to help boost you via dungeons. Right now, people are charging about 30 gold per run to boost people. To me, this shows that people really don’t want to experience TBC Classic, they want to experience the end game part of it (raids or PVP).
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I find that sad. It wasn’t like that back when BC came out originally. Yeah people got carried through dungeons, but it wasn’t some standard where people were charging x amount of gold to do this. Of course there were people doing this but it was something you didn’t hear about a lot.
I don’t know if it’s because the players are different now, or because a lot of them already played BC and just want to do specific things they didn’t do before… The way retail is designed though, they sort of promote this kind of behavior. I blame mythic+ and similar things for breeding this kind of behavior whatever. I find it unbecoming of an MMORPG to promote this stuff, if that’s what genre the game is still supposed to be, but I dunno anymore.
tldr noooo
no it will not. it’s literally the same game client
LMAO nope. BC Classic will end up just like Vanilla Classic and the numbers will drop hard in a few months. Come 9.1 release there will be a big hit also. These Classic servers level off to a niche following once the new coat of paint wears off.
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Drop rates are no where near as bad in retail as they are in TBCC. Maybe if we’re talking gear drops in raids or dungeons with the RNG you could argue that. But leveling in the open world it’s no contest. I never have a problem with drops when questing in retail. If I need 10 eyes from boars it usually only takes killing ten boars. In TBCC I can slaughter an entire area of boars and still be short 2 of the 10 eyes that I needed. And that’s if I’m in the area alone and not competing with others, which also makes it take longer. So you have a simple quest that in retail takes at best 5 -10 minutes where in TBCC it can take 30 minutes to an hour. That’s just not fun in view.
The only constant reminder I am of The Burning Crusade is how many times they recycle assets and make four duplicates of one dungeon and call it a, “new” dungeon.
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Go post on your classic cult forum. TBC is old and will never pass modern wow long term. Maybe for 3 weeks or so, but that is just a launch thing.
Is Classic Vanilla currently bigger than retail? Definite no.
So tired of classic evangelists. Go play your game and stop with the "my game is better than your game preteen drama.
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