So the "old players" are finally getting the "make wow great again" server? OF to the shelf with you, then. :)
Well if the Nostalrius guys are ever out of a job...
While I have no interest in classic servers, I'm happy the people who've wanted this for so long will finally have it.
I never played WoW back then so this sounds like a neat idea!
So. Hyped.
Back to good ol daysThough i havent play classic wow before XD
i know a lot of people who have been waiting for this!
I really don't understand the allure at all. Vanilla wasn't great.
So happy this is happening, I only hope it doesn't get chipped away by the people wanting QoL changes; the true essence of vanilla includes the annoying bits. I'm fine with exploits, server crashes etc being fixed, and with anti hacking/botting stuff, wouldn't complain if modern right-click report was added to reduce the load on the GMs, but anything that affects gameplay in any way isn't something I'd like, I want the true vanilla experience, warts and all. And I think that those who feel like me are the ones most likely to stick around longest, so my hope is that Blizzard will go with the purest possible form.
To remember crossroads and Mulgore as they used to be <3
Excited for this!
This hype will keep me pumped for months on end for sure
I believe Blizzard puts quite a lot of resource into this (instead into the new expansion), and when these classic servers open up, quite a lot people will start trying this out. After a few days, or weeks, or at least when reaching lv60, they will lose their rose-colored glasses along the way and get desillusioned about how... crude and unrefined the game actually was at that time. Yes, they were great times back then (I play since classic beta), but the game has developed a LOT in all these years and the most people calling out loudly for classic servers tend to forget that.I'm happy for those who really wanted that feature, but I personally think it's a waste of time and resource.
I hope they, aside from like...fixing game-crashing bugs...leave everything how it was. I want to be able to infect people with pandemic dots I steal from raids.
It will be interesting to see what comes out of this. Hopefully it's exactly like vanilla.
My guess is that new classic version will use a lot of completely new code as this endeavour is likely quite more complex than it looks. With that taken into account, I humbly estimate we will not see WoW: Classic live any sooner than 2019. On the other hand, I cannot wait to play classic "again"! ^^
Nostalgia is great, until it isn’t. Even if they manage to get every detail exactly right the one thing that they can’t do is recreate the feeling you got the first time you played. Why? You are not the same person now that you were then. People often forget this fact when they are thinking happy thoughts about a past experience. So basically players will be experiencing a game that they played 13 years ago but at the age and life experience they are now. Maybe it will be fun and exciting but it likely won’t be the same and I wonder how long it takes for the magic to wear off. I know I will check it out. I started in early TBC so I remember with disdain walking until 40, everything taking a long time, quests that were grouped in a very inefficient manner in each zone. For all the bad though, it was fun and I can’t wait to poke around inside classic WoW for a few hours. I think a lot more people will treat this as a curiousity and not much more. It will be like a museum, sounds like fun and is for a bit but there is a lot of walking and it’s hard to find the exit.