how that addon ever got to release i’ll never know. should rename it to " toxic parse" . “you dont have a 99 parse you cant go”
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at this point, I really hope microsh1t will fire them all…
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Personally I’ve recently returned to wow after 8 years, only play classic as it’s what I remember and enjoy. If it is shut down that’s me back out again, retail is ok for me classic has what I want.
As these mergers go cutting out as much of the company you’ve acquired is considered good business practice. So there will be even worse customer support (believe it) and fewer people interacting with the customers. Now I don’t think any classic servers will be simply shut down because they can milk em but it will be an overall worse experience
I’ll be 200% honest here and say that Classic will survive no matter what, whatever they will decide not to spend on developing classic they will have to double that spend on legal fees to shut down pservers that will emerge as soon as people will be out of content on SoD. I personally prefer to pay for a subscription and play it on blizzard servers, but if not given that option I will surely and gladly migrate to other places. Most customers follow the product, not the company.
Classic is not perfect and every time it reaches Naxx it starts to slowly die due to lack of content, but is a viable and successful model every time up to a point. TBC was also semi-good on Classic era until they had that huge blizzard scandal and lots quit the game in protest to that (my guild disbanded because of it), on top of people protesting to paid leveling boosts back in TBC.
Success of classic totally depends on the amount of changes and direction of those changes.
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Technically, Microsoft had to make a lot of concessions when facing anti-trust laws, particularly in the US and the UK. The main concession was that Blizzard had to be run independent of their larger business. They’re already in hot water over the layoffs they did at Blizzard - any indication that they are doing mass studio shutdowns, assimilation into Microsoft itself, or similar could result in them breaching the anti-trust agreement they made costing Microsoft millions and potentially losing them the IP they’ve purchased. So unless Blizzard starts actively losing money for Microsoft, I doubt anything major will happen for a good few years.
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Capitalism in a nutshell. Not being a commie but still. Video games company used to make money by making good games.
Now , they skipped the good game part and focus on money.
This is the problem.
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Their problem was making good, contained single player game and not a massive easily monetizeable live service slop.
WoW is heavily monetized live service game, and huge cash cow for Blizzard. It is in no danger of being killed off for now.
Cataclysm launched*
*Prepatch live, full expansion next week.
THIS
I come from a time long long ago when there where no in game micro transactions of any kind, the Devil had not dreamt that up for humanity yet.
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it’s microsoft , they love wasting billion , looks how the xbox still exist while being the worst console every time.
wow should be safe for a while.
A month ago I had a feeling that SoD was a cash grab, hit and run for the quarterly report.
All about the money and results.
Microsoft have to get their sh…t together and just make blizz. a no loss and no profit for a year or two so they can solve the current state of blizz.
If indeed they would ignore SoD and Cata just because they MUST make a profit… Then i beleive half the player base will never return to Blizz ever again.
Internet will explode in their face. All the influencers and youtubers etc will take a dump on Blizz 4ever
Seriously how much resources do u need to keep wow classic going? A team of 3 people who know the product ?
Why is this even an issue?