Edit: It’s been clarified. Thread over. Thanks for all the responses.
All I have to go on is this quote from the sticky:
My common sense tells me there will be an up-front cost, but the way Blizzard talks of Classic as a ‘museum’ project causes me to consider otherwise…along with this quote saying it’ll be ‘bundled.’ It’s seems a bit vague to me though, so I’m making this thread.
The reason it’s vague, is that it could possibly only be answering the cost to keep playing, since purchasing is often an obvious step.
What do you guys think? Will there be a cost to ‘purchase’ the Classic client? Or will it simply be integrated into all non-trial accounts for a simple subscription cost?
Here’s a poll…both for fun and opinions. https://strawpoll.com/7y815a7h
There will be no box cost. If you’re subbed now that’s it, and if you’re not all you have to do is add a sub to an old or new sub when Classic comes out and thats it
You make an account and sub to the game, you don’t have to buy anything. The only cost is the $15 sub. It also gives you access to retail other than whatever the new expansion is.
Same as what would happen if you subbed right now and you didn’t buy BFA.
You don’t have to purchase the Retail client to play anymore, only a sub fee. So no, you 100% will not ever have to buy a box to play Classic. The only time you need to buy any box for Retail is to play an expansion, and I believe you can just buy the most recent expansion and get all of them.
He wouldn’t put that post up there if it wasn’t true. Look at one of the many many many many videos he has on that specific post and I bet you it’s in there as they have stated this over and over and over and over again.
EDIT: Just noticed he had to take down the videos 1 sec.
Well your condescension would have made more sense if the videos were up. I watched a bunch of videos similar to those, but didn’t get a concrete answer.
I’ll leave it at that, thanks for posting them; I’ll give them a watch through now.
Edit: I must have only seen clips from the panel rather than the whole thing.
Now that its clear its just a sub, no box cost, just wanted to point out something. WoW Retail now runs the same way. There’s no cost for BfA, you just sub and it works. I imagine the next expac will have a cost initially, but for everything else its free. Its their new model of encouraging people to get into the game without a big upfront cost.