You know it’s 2020 when people whine about free bag slots breaking the game…
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I like having me a free lunch.
i like my 4 slots , no thanks
The idea is classic, what makes it special is working for stuff. No free handouts like retail. It’s one of the key factors that make classic special. If you want to receive without effort, retail is always at your disposal.
It’s 4 slots.
If it was 10 or 12 slots I’d understand why people are annoyed, but you’re getting your panties in a bunch over what amounts to a 4 slot bag.
I think he was expecting more support for his “those extra 4 slots are the tools of oppression” schtick, but it just didn’t happen.
Instead, virtually every single reply here is mocking him. And rightly so.
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As vaste as Classic might seem, it all boils down to pre Raid BiS. What we knew then compared to now is 2 different worlds.
Waow , rampant booting and RMT everywhere but hello no, 4 slots are making people quit the game , bring the petrol and lets start the riot to bring down this game breaking 4 slots
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So in Classic, even just 2 slots are a big deal. You have to work your tail off to obtain a bag with just a few extra slots. It’s a routine sacrifice you have to make and a defining part of vanilla. It’s the effort, reward, satisfaction, pride paradigm. It gets ruined with these extra 4 slots and slowly degenerates the game into the level of retail. I significantly blame the status quo at blizzard HQ for this oversight. The employees there have totally lost sight of what makes the game great.
Something else to remember is the anxiety of hunters and warlocks. They need to keep stock of soul shards and ammo. They’re forced to balance and prioritize bag slots in often painful ways. This is a defining characteristic of their class, something that makes them special and gives value to both ammo, the bag slot, and the other items in the bag. You see, stuff like that actually gives the game meaning. Removing this, rather degenerating it, causes harm to this spirit of the game.
Even tho i don’t agree with you i respect you for your passion for this 16 year content. (not sarcasm)
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What is hard , gettin 14 slots is easy af , 16 and 18 you gotta work harder but you can get them easy , i don’t know how bad you must be to consider that gettin a bag is an such a milestone , yes it might have been in first two months when you got your first ony bag , but now after 1 year and 4 months of classic if you don’t have at least 4 18 slots and bank with 16 slots what the f are you doing to be so bad , and lets see that is in that config 208 slots and + 4 slots from authenticator 212 , that is increase in your bank size by 1,88% , yes completly gamebreaking and you should unsub to show your protest
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This thread just keeps getting more and more hilarious by the minute.
I think it’s important to remember that Vanilla WoW (unlike retail), is an entire game with a leveling experience. These +4 bag slots are not awarded to only the elite players, but everyone from level 1. When you’re elite, sure it is just a +2% inventory enlargement, but when you are level 1 it is a +20% enlargement. That is significant, because part of learning the game is in those first levels when you accidentally fill up your backpack (we all have done it) and not feel overwhelmed at having too many slots right off the bat.
Plus I remember, many times, in my leveling experience fighting in my head over buying an 8 slot bag or a 10 slot bag for many more silver. Those two bag slots were such a big deal to me. As many others. Just tossing in +4 slots harms this. It need to feel special – this is why we resurrected vanilla in the first place – because it feels special and retail doesn’t. This sort of thing is what does it. We must cling to it.
I think it’s very clear that guarding this experience is more important than guarding a free handout. I also understand it’s important to reward players who secure their account. I’m really just suggesting finding a different way of doing it. Maybe just leave the perks to retail? Or if you must modify the classic experience, do something like… you know… reverse… like make the cost of repairing your gear twice as expensive until you add an authenticator. You can motivate people with both a carrot and a stick. Since any positive modification to the gameplay would incur harm, just use negative, because then releasing the negative motivation would just restore the gameplay to normal like it should be. Yeah, seriously just double the cost of repairs. People would rush to authenticate their accounts to bring it back to normal.
Kek, I never won an onyxia bag.
So I stick with my 16 slot bags xD.
And that’s a very good example of just how critical a few bag slots are, even at max level and elite status. It’s simply part of the vanilla experience.
I mean, I’m always half bag space anyway.
Not like you need that many, unless you plan on swapping gear for specific fights 
That is utterly stupid.
And that even more.
Are you guys making a “who can post the most stupid crap” contest ?
I have some news for you , most new players buy gold and get boosted to 60 , lvl-ing in the world is dead on pvp servers , and on pve servers i only play on pyrewood and i can say lvl-ing in the world is really active from 1 to 60 , world you have in mind from 2004 doesn’t exist anymore
This isen’t Vanilla, it’s Classic, im fine with a few tweaks here and there, and the extra bagspace is nice.
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Vanilla experience is dead and cannot be recreated unless you forcibly erase 15 year’s worth of people’s memories and knowledge. Forget about “vanilla experience”. Game is slightly modified but same nevertheless, experience is different.
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