The numbers from various census sites are coming in and all seem to be in agreement that WoW Classic has more active players than WoW Retail.
As a Retail player, does this concern you, or do you think this will flip once the newness of Classic wears off and Dragonflight launches?
Also, considering the possibility that Classic will have numbers comparable to Retail, how will this affect the future of WoW? Is Classic+ as many, including me, would love coming? Or will we simply see Cataclysm Classic next?
Retail: Currently tail end of expansion. Nothing new happening except for those who only recently decided to dip their toes in again for a bit (such as myself.)
Classic: Decade+ old game that most of the current player base likely never played. New (to them) way to play WoW at no extra cost t their current subscription.
So far I think everything is going exactly as intended.
Does not concern me. If I didn’t have like 120 days played in Wrath I would be playing it too. It’s also the same sub, so it doesn’t matter to Blizzard anyway.
It is so hard to believe that people are playing classic until dragonflight comes out? I mean, retail is dead until the next expansion. Everyone knows this.
people that missed it when current and want to see what the fuss was all about.
people that played it when it was current and awesome and they are trying to relive it hoping to get that same experience. but they wont.
people that are hard knocking retail on a daily basis because their accounts have nothing. they either werent playing for all the og rewards back in the day or werent good enough to get them. so now they are spamming classic to get all these old rewards because they are easy to get now with the hopes that classic will turn into retail and they will have a stacked account and feel like an og in their head.
bringing back the game via classic servers is a bad idea. its like starting and opening a restaurant and then standing outside with a sign telling people not to eat there.
the additional time and effort it took with all these classic releases they could of added mini patches to retail. they could of used those resources to add additional objectives, achievements, mounts, etc… and so on.
they could of even bumped up the ilvl of gear rewards for open world players. made each SL zone relevant again by making each zone fated that matched up with whatever raid was fated for the week. it would of made the maw, korthia, zereth mortis and hell even all 4 of the basic SL zones relevant again and full.
honestly as the wife said. she feels like blizzard is purposely trying to sabotage wow for other, smaller, more profitable games.
