I bought a 3 month sub to play classic wow, played from 2008 until 2015 or so and wanted to give it another shot, because I love wow.
I enjoy classic wow but it’s also very annoying to play at the same time.
I miss my stats (amount of deaths etc etc)/achievements (okay this is classic but why does everything that is NOT fun or incomplete have to be in classic?) is this supposed to be a 2004 copy? In my opinion not.
I guess there are a lot of classic fan boys that want it to be 1 on 1 exactly the same as it was. But I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t “add” a couple of features that make playing so much more fun. After these 3 months of sub I’m quitting again (not a big deal I know) but I expected classic to be more fun and challenging and why are the server populations so small? Why can’t we get bigger servers?
Basically I’m missing a lot in classic, the game feels like it’s in a beta. Yes it’s a 2004 game re-released in 2019 but at least give us some extras ingame? I don’t get it.
It’s supposed to be a 2006 copy with progressive content.
Because it makes it less fun?
Dafuq? The servers are like 10 times bigger than in Vanilla. Most realms are totally overcrowded and had a huge queue before they implemented sharding again on some realms.
I am not saying it’s impossible to improve this game with fun feature and stuff. I am just convinced that Activision Blizzard can’t make a version of Vanilla that I would enjoy more. I mean the very first thing they did to Vanilla when they found the authentic 1.12.1 data on a backup of a backup was to implement sharding, real raw actual sharding, and then they didn’t tell the community about it and let them discover that in the demo… This company is horrible in running an MMORPG, but it makes sense, they have never done it before. Blizzard did that, Blizzard created Vanilla and ran Vanilla, TBC and WOTLK, while Activision Blizzard is running the ActionRPG eSport version that is live today.
Don’t lie just to be a troll.
The biggest servers are so full that they’re still layered and still get lag in major cities during peak playing times and of-course during world buff timers.
I wouldn’t call that “dead”.
While I can somewhat agree with this, the question is what to add and more importantly where to stop.
If they tried to do this now they’d end up adding way too much and we’d end up having a list of chores to do daily/weekly to keep up with and LFR Naxxramas groups.
No thank you.
Yeah it’s a thin line, I agree.
For me personally and this may seem a bit far fetched I would LOVE having a dungeon finder in classic wow, I know a lot of people would hate it since it has nothing to do with classic wow basically, but It will make it so much more fun.
I believe achievements, general stats and a dungeon finder would be a nice improvement to classic wow.
I currently play on firemaw and if I want to do a run of Ragefire Chasm or Wailing Caverns for example I always have to get boosted it’s just faster that way and everyone seems to do it. I hardly see any group of 5 (around the level requirements for the dungeon), people just don’t do that anymore. No one wants to spend half an hour (if you’re lucky) creating a dungeon group if you can spam trade for a boost and pay 5g and 5mins later you’re done.
That’s why I think a dungeonfinder would be great in classic, yeah it wasn’t in classic originally but those were different times.
Are you talking about cross realm dungeon finder? Because this is what most people absolutely hate. It takes away the social nature of the game. You can no longer add friends this way or do further content together or just meet that person later in the game and be like “wow man remember that dungeon, it was sick”. If you know what I mean.
I can only speak for myself. I would quit Classic and never return if they ever implement a dungeon finder. But I’m not concerned. It’s one of those things Blizzard was 100% clear about and they didn’t even respect the idea more than to say, No of course not, end of discussion.
The boost meta sucks for sure. The xp should be MUCH lower if a player kill gray mobs. That would fix that.
Quote: “But I just don’t understand why you wouldn’t “add” a couple of features that make playing so much more fun.”
I think there are 2 answers to this.
Firstly, Classic is intended to be an exact copy of the original game, warts and all.
Secondly, it would in any case be impossible to “add features” that would be acceptable to all players. Some players might want features X, Y and Z. Others will want X, A and B. Others will want no added features at all. Then you’ll get forum complaints about "X feature has been added so why can’t we have [insert feature name] as well.
Finally, the more features you add, the further away you are from the original WoW experience. So it has to be all (retail) or noting (Classic).