I don’t know what this feeling is? Joy? Sadness and grief for a time that will never be? Feeling sad for what a certain company has to deliver because some CEO’s demand certain conditions.
I barely touched BfA for obvious reasons, even 8.2 because I lost all hope but when Classic came out I just couldn’t hold it despite my busy schedule.
So I created a dwarf paladin, blasted this
and just got this feeling, overwhelming me, leaving me in tears.
Now I’ve barely played classic, started on my uncles account till I reached a lvl to tame pets and got my own account with TBC but damn.
Somehow this feels so nostalgic and so familiar that made me tear up.
Anyone else got this “feeling”?
Also big thanks for Blizzard and the community for making this possible, I’ve never said anything about vanilla or classic because I never actually played it for real and never thought they would do it.
So big big big fckin thanks for making me have this feel again. I just can’t express it.
I feel you, no tears but I made a NELF and gathered the lillies for one of the beginner quests and the last time I did this was probably around 2006.
I thought to myself “I should go to bed soon for school” and cracked a large smile at such a weird mind echo, of course now it is work and not school but for a moment I achieved time travel
exactly
I’ve also met like three people I traded stuff with, exchanged friendships and lvld up with.
People buff each other, mages give water and food. This would never happen in retail.
People in retail are too self sufficent to need supplies from others.
And making friends has nothing to do with retail or classic, just how you are as a person. People are working together because it has an impact on the game in the open world, which it doesn’t in retail, save for the few elite mobs that are actually hard to kill alone.
My own experience was pretty much as it was in retail. Make a character, do quests, kill things, except it took longer, I had to contend for mobs with a lot of people, wait for bosses to respawn, but without quests like bombing alliance ships from a hot air balloon to break up all the fetch and kill quests.
I expect the crowds to be gone once the intial hype blows over, and then people are probably gonna make posts asking stuff like “what happened to classic” and such.
I can relate. I have not been able to play much, because of the queue being as long as my game time in the evening. But knowing that it all awaits right in front of me…
To walk the streets of Darnassus again. Experience the old Quests. The old NPCs. Form friendships. Be in a wonderful Guild. Take my time. Listen to the old soundtrack. See the old character models…I could go on.
When I listen to Daugther of the Sea however, I cannot help but also feel sadness over this split. Retail (What shall we call it now, actually?) Modern WoW is not all bad. Some of it is absolutely fantastic and so much work has gone into environmental details and soundtracks too.
But yes…With Classic. I am home.
Thank you, Blizzard. Thank you to the players for being so passionate about this, to make it a reality. Thank you so much.
