Great single player game

[Aphandra-terenas]

if I could have one question to the chief WoW designer:

• Why did you create a single player game and sell it as an mmo?

Couple months ago people did ask, how to level. I had lots of single player experience so I said, the 48-60 experience is nice and versatile, just keep zone hopping and maybe get some rested bonus. Plenty of quests and some reputation on the side.

WRONG.

Sure, the early experience is so much in the designer’s face, they responded with quick respawns, and larger zones where you can fit 2-3 players at least.

From level 40 onwards, the best thing you can do is dungeon spam. Absolutely everywhere there are swarms of people, even on a Sunday early morning.
There is a quest to kill 3x8 creatures. There are 16 spawns grand overall in the entire zone. Not an issue on a single player server. Here, it can take hours. In my case, 2 months.

Switch zones, they say. Where? To the other place full with people?
Nah. The good places are those without any quest, reputation, or even valuable items. The wolves in Felwood or Plaguelands, chimaera in Winterspring, stuff like that.

So really, the world is pointless.

It’s a historical theme park so I do not ask for change, but I just don’t get it how could it be such a fail design.

Yes, there are 2x (or more) as many players on Mirage Raceway as it’s prototypical.

Classic could have been a resounding success, given that many players left due to reasons, like me, letting 4 months out of my 6 month sub run out without playing. Other friends, too. And the servers are still too full. That’s a proof to me.

Don’t respond, I just need to vent. I play 2 hours a week so I pay for forums.

[Justicesoul-pyrewood-village]

If ppl are going for the max exp/hour ratio ignoring everything that makes this game enjoyable socially and good as an RPG you have to blame the ppl, not the devs.

Yet there is a bit of responsibility from their part: the increasing need to find isolated places to exp, all solo-dungeon strategies and such, has started because of how massively populated the servers are and BlizzVision also took too long to even start punishing botters, letting them run wild enough to ruin a lot of the economy of the servers.

[Deymio-zandalar-tribe]

why don‘t you group up with ppl? it was way worse during the launch of classic and we all managed to lvl through these zones.

[Zalanji-mirage-raceway]

@Aphandra-terenas

Don’t respond

Some people don’t understand what forums are for

Forums are places where you meet other people. If you just want to vent, go post on Twitter or something.

[Swamper-bloodfang]

I don’t understand the premise, this isn’t a single player game. Gameplay wise it would be a garbage one, especially compared to modern ARPGs.

Anyway population aside lots of mobs that are required for quests have an alternative smaller area you can find them in, more hidden off.

[Redorc-firemaw]

i love single player games! i wish wow was a single player offline game
Where i could control the entire raid characters & have tough life killing Bosses without letting some of my characters dying! “wait…multiboxing exsist xD”

[Danaoss-bloodfang]

We tried to explain to you that Vanilla is not for you and that you should go back to Retail.

J. A. Brack famously told you YOU THINK YOU DO BUT YOU DON’T.

Veteran vanilla players like me wrote tons of of posts and made threads to ask you to not clog our servers but instead go play retail.

Horde UD Rogues and Mages made it even a slogan and after they killed you each time they would spam:

gO tO rEtaIL gO tO rEtaIL gO tO rEtaIL

Now, after having failed to listen to all of these ppl, you come back here with your ridiculous retail female Belf Loladin crying that your sub has ran out and you can’t level to 60 on a PVE SERVER.

Perhaps you ought to have listened to Brack right from the start and not destroy our servers and make the experience suck both for us and for you.

[Ugongo-pyrewood-village]

So you’re complaining that when you want to go somewhere and do something, there are other players who want to go to the same place and do the same thing that you do? In a MMO?

How dare they? What a bunch of snowflakes.

[Aphandra-terenas]

@Swamper-bloodfang

I don’t understand the premise, this isn’t a single player game. Gameplay wise it would be a garbage one, especially compared to modern ARPGs.

Anyway population aside lots of mobs that are required for quests have an alternative smaller area you can find them in, more hidden off.

xhttps://classic.wowhead.com/quest=8464/winterfall-activity
xhttps://classic.wowhead.com/npc=7438/winterfall-ursa
xhttps://classic.wowhead.com/npc=7439/winterfall-shaman

I know you’re trying to be helpful, this is one example of many.
Respawn timer around 10 minutes.

[Whytho-skullflame]

@Danaoss-bloodfang

Perhaps you ought to have listened to Brack right from the start and not destroy our servers and make the experience suck both for us and for you.

How entitled and damaged inside must someone be to write this down … casual player, who plays 2 hour a week destroying your server … wh … wha … what ?

It is players like you, who absolutely destroyed the spirit of the game, constant min-maxing, racing for first, griefing, botting and clever usage of ingame mechanics and i wonder how many players will leave, disgusted by your attitude.

[Bodiesan-earthshaker]

@Aphandra-terenas

Classic could have been a resounding success

Wait, how many games are more successfull than Classic right now of all games in the world?

Also I don’t understand. Is OP angry that it’s a solo player game because there are to many players questing?

[Larrabee-gehennas]

layering.

10chars

[Swamper-bloodfang]

Yeah that’s why I didn’t say all, I said lots.

Not too suprising that a mob required for reputation farm has very specific area… Right?