Classic WoW is dead?

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Welp, I checked in after almost a year of not playing. My current character’s realm is dead in TBC. There’s no one online.
I checked out on my low level Horde character and to my surprise it was well alive, and quite balanced. But when I asked if there was a dungeon group I could join, I got met with the response “do you have gold? If not then that’s not possible :)”.

Now I checked out Season of Mastery, the realms are medium populated. So I chose one and… /who 26 people online.
Then I took on the “full” one and there’s people levelling for sure… but not as much as you expected.

So TBC is full with minmaxers who throw money at the game, Season of Mastery is pretty much barely hanging on by a thread and classic… well that is completely dead.

I have to give it to you Blizzard, I did not expect you to kill the game so quick for a short term of profit. I guess it is Microsoft’s problem now.
You should have acted sooner towards the botting problem, you should have acted sooner towards the booster community and possibly quite a bit of RWT involved aswell, but you didn’t. You even catered to them and sold the level boost aswell as rebrought in toys and a brand new 14 year old mount. Glory to the min/maxers that ruined a gem of a game, and thank the twitch community aswell!

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Almost as if Blizzard knew through data science that nostalgia wasn’t going to be enough to sustain a game that was utterly awful on launch.

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To be fair this is not blizzard fault because they told you back in 2014 that you think you do but you don’t.
Classic servers are there for people who can appreciate the OLD School wow
Everybody with a little bit of brain knew that classic servers are not gonna be something groundbreaking
I personally knew that it will end up like this from a private server scene where people play expansion for a while progress through content and then servers are almost dead
only the most dedicated players clear same raid for 5 years straight every week :smiley:

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Is this was the problem? Or perhaps the rampant of min/maxing boosting tryhard elitist aswell with toxic people like Sodapopping bringing in the worst kind of people into the game thanks to Twitch?

I have talked with a lot of people who love Classic and I can tell you they still have a lot of love for it, but the way that Blizzard handled this is stupid!

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I don’t play the Classic versions much but I thought Classic pretty much died when TBC came out.

I did go and dabble with TBC for a bit of nostalgia but like you say my experience with the min max community was not fun.

Builds for Wrath are coming, no idea when so it’s likely TBC will suffer the same fate TBC did. I don’t know if people will go back and enjoy the older standalone versions or not.

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Its not the classic servers that are dead. Retail is dead aswell.

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I really can’t see that Retail is dead. ZM is full of people doing the content.

Whilst he playerbase may have shrunk over the expansion, it’s not like we are short of players to do content with.

When you logged on to Classic standalone after TBC launched you really saw what dead was.

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Classic is not dead, but some realms are, and some suffer from severe faction imbalance.

I can see finding dungeon groups being a bit of a problem, because Blizzard killed a very large part of the old world by adding level boosts in TBC.

Honestly, after years of experience with Blizzard I don’t expect better, but if you want on this ride, now would be the only real chance unless you want to resort to private servers.

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I created a premade for a rare near Haven yesterday on PVE, i had about 400 applicants in 10 seconds lol. I was actually shocked as i had the same mindset as you. Seems the zone is packed even tho i can’t see most of them while questing :slight_smile:

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Classic is not dead, but the urban migration effect went crazy. Everybody has moved to a couple of realms and those realms are ginormous and every other realm is dead. It’s the same that’s happening and really has mostly happened to retail as well arriving at its conclusion.

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you know? just the thing to quest in a BIG and JOYFUL environment gives me the will to play wow lately.
I confirm anyway. actually the zone is full of ppl (even at the weirdest hours)

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to be honest, not sure what you expected.

people whose mentality changed play a game that hasnt changed. it was kind of to be expected tbh.

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That is making me tempted to go and play.

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i logged onto my classic vanilla character, i was the only one on the server, checked a few others, i was the only one on the server every time. epic fail

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I’ve toons on firemaw (tbc) - loads of players both sides.
I’ve toons on Earth shaker (ally ofc) - loads of players.
I’ve toons on Gollemag (horde) - loads of players
I’ve toons on Dreadnaught (SoM) both sides - loads of players both sides.

Sure I picked populated realms; but to say there’s no players is simply erroneous

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People enmassed on the most popular servers just like in retail.
Lots of people playing classic you just got to pick the right server.
Still though, not super many players playing wow in general these days. You won’t find thousands of players around every corner

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Tbh I am waiting for Wrath of the Lich King to launch and I think I am not alone. Time will tell if it drags more people back to WoW but I think Blizzard should launch it sooner than the summer of 2023 (two years from TBC launch)

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Was it ever alive?

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