Ah ye, waiting and seeing if the game is seriously harmed in an incredibly predictable manner for incredibly predictable reasons means you are super swayed. You literally had to be shown a window into our direct future already come to pass for you to even consider that it is even a possibility that it might play out that way.
Doesn’t seem likely given I am about as far from a casual as you can get. I’m just not a moron and actually care about the health of the game.
Rofl. Vanilla Classic was disastrous. It fed off of one of the most immense wells of nostalgia that has ever or will ever exist in gaming, and succeeded primarily in reminding people how god awful the Vanilla game design was, introducing people to how cataclysmically toxic the people specifically interested in Vanilla Classic are, and then falling apart half way through same as the recent retail expansions.
Serious? The summoning networks were a direct fork of the hyper meta-slave culture of Classic.