Not sure if that hurts them, but what I’m sure it huts them really bad is the fact that pirate servers run the game better, with less bugs and more efficiently.
It’s amazing how a few amateurs/enthusiasts can run a server better than a multi-million company with so many “professionals”.
I know if I worked for Blizzard that would hurt me a lot.
why would they actively work towards undermining their own creation? Nah, they aren’t lunatics, it’s a cash cow and they’ll milk it regardless if it’s on phones, playstations, pocket watches or PC’s, as far as they’re concerned, they’d be happy to continue making lots of money from both players… but undermining Classic would only make people unsub entirely cause they don’t wanna touch retail anyway lol
I’d guess most of us on this forum re-subbed exclussively for classic.
The trailer for Shadowlands was cool and all… but I’m sticking with classic. If it dies it dies. Then we’ll just go back to the private servers that we came from. They were better in many ways anyway >_<
A bad private server? I mean, the game single handedly brought back WoW to the top 3 most profitable PC titles, yet Blizzard treat it like a dog turd. I guess 15$/month from a 15 years old title is not enough for them, gotta cash in on the Sylvanas hype, although that died in 8.1.
But but but…The level squish to 60 means that they’re almost the same game now, that’s what made people love Classic, level 60! They’ll love it now!
– Blizzard Sales & Marketing (formerly Game Design) Department.
I don’t think anyone is mad that Classic is doing well, most people expected it to since there was such mythos surrounding the fabled ‘‘Official Vanilla’’ where progress couldnt disappear in a moments notice due to a takedown.
I think people are just a bit scared that this would become the standard for an MMORPG in 2019, not story wise, or world wise, but gameplay wise. If people got a chance to try out retail Wrath of the Lich King for example, people would trash Classics combat to hell and back, because it deserves to be trashed, because it’s fundamentally bad. Because it’s the FIRST project of its scale, from a company, made in 2004. It was always going to be bad mechanically.
But Classic was a good wakeup call for everyone in the industry on how to make an MMO community driven, for sure.
Haha daim a shut Down reply.
I 100% agree
But what Will happen with this is
Shop Will come to classic just wait for it.
Whatever if its buy lvl 45
Gold
Mounts.
Retail are doomed, and lots lf streamers are showing this 
and im glad. Blizzard Got Way out of context.
Therefor they are not fixing server issues, and other stuff. Bec they want us to feel the lag and that sh-it, so we might go back to the hack and slash game with p2w rp Awards and more
You really Think that in 2019
They cant fix their issues?
U Think they couldent release classic in pre nerf State ?
So blizzard really coulden’t work on this?
Or is it because they Will lose money on the Long run?
If we stay classic we wont go retail.
So either shop coming to classic OR they fu-ck this so Hardly that we quit or go retail.
Everything is 100% clear if you have commen sence and Got a feeling in shares.
Private server did Way better in their sparetime + basement… thats hillarious
Yeah keep dreaming, go on yt and look at your streamers reaction to Shadowlands.
They are all to go play it when alpha will be out.
I think the most common reaction was - wtf is this BS?
It really shows when the most talked Blizzard games are a 15 years old one and a remake of 19 years old one.
Then you must have not logged on twitch/YouTube since this Friday evening becouse the trend is completely opposite.
I would say Classic is on the way to find its real audience rather than dying. If you eat your ice-cream very fast without enjoying it, all you can do is to cry and watch your brother eats his delicious ice-cream slowly and satisfactory.
For my part I am happy these people with the rushing mentality only log for their raids so rest of the times I do not need to face with them. The Classic has just been released, what’s wrong with people? We do not even have honor which is crucial and a big part of Classic. We do not have battle grounds yet and you are talking about that the game is dying.
Be real. Enlarge your perspective. Just because your raid buddies stopped playing does not mean Classic is dying. Who cares about a new template, repeatable expansion which adorned with shop items, hidden behind timed, carrots on sticks or gated content to keep subscription numbers up? They are the same corrupted developers. As long as they do not understand the real mentality, aims and passion behind Vanilla, even they add 10 more expansions it will never be close to original game.
For me Classic have not even started yet, for me the real fun starts after phase 2. Looking forward to meet and literally able to see, interact with my realm’s community. Looking forward for sleepless nights full of world PvP and battlegrounds.
Forum drama over who whispers, get real xD
umm which ones?
because Preach, Asmongold and belluar all say good things…
so which youtubers are saying bad things? Lol
So bizarre, where have blizzard posted that classic is dying?
For few months again
I completely agree. We all knew there’d be a drop off of players after the first few months as they discovered it wasn’t really what they wanted from a game but they tried it for the hype/experience/change of scenery and so on. It’s not a negative, different people enjoy playing different content, that’s perfectly normal. I initially thought I’d probably get fed up of the missing qol stuff by now but I haven’t so I’ll plod along at a pace determined by me and not the scriptwriters of more recent expansions.
dont forget to dry you up when you wake.
i will never understand players who 1)
beleive Classic is killing Modern WoW
or 2)
Beleive a WoW Expansion will kill classic.
these two games keep each other alive, via sharing the same Subscription, half of you complaining Classics gonna die, will prolly play it when theres no content or between patchs for laughs.
These games do NOT appeal to the same player, as they are very different MMORPGS… the only way Classic could possibly die is if WoW push enough Vanilla Styled changes into Modern WoW to make it redundent. which it wont. you can see their changing Modern WoW back to its More classical design. with defined loot drops and bringing back more worth to proffessions etc etc… but it wont be enough to drive the Classic Fan back to Modern WoW.
neither games dying. they both share the same Subscription… playing Classic WoW pays for Modern WoW… Eventually classic wont even need a dev team… as it Will be stunted Once Classic Content is all released… which Litterally means u Dont even need a Dev team for it… its Just a Money sink for Modern WoW after that point lol
Honestly m8, brilliant sentence, could not have expressed it better myself
Haha trust me. Ccl
Retail Can do what it want
Retail whole other game than classic.
And ye w/e u say. Ur right. Boe,kneel w/e.
Blizzard wont ever get ad High as in tbc.
Classic Will shine once again and beat even Old records one day. - even if they continue to tbc as Old days.