The reasons why I am playing retail:
- Vulpera
- I like to play with all the stuff I spent time collecting
- I have seen and done all classic content when it was valid, doing it again is boring for me.
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Because if I am going to not enjoy playing something because itās full of bots and services and wha wha wha stuff i cry about, then i might as well do it in the game that lets me do alot of things on my own. In classic you can feel the destruction of every fiber of what made classic great (the need for community) being destroyed with every modern itteration of Pay 2 Win attitude. I aint saying everyone does it, but the fact that people on classic era (on these forums) have made it clear that GDKP with rediculous ammounts of gold are the norm, makes me believe it is no better or worse thereā¦justā¦feels more sad.
also i run a guild.
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You hit the nail on the head.
If anyone says this or anything ānot a realā¦ā RUN
Could be the server. People arenāt joking about the Kazzak problem on retail. The difference is, retail is completely cross-server.
On the gameās side itās not. All the frustrating issues that make it so players around you are against you rather than with you are gone.
Back on the dragonflight beta when they added cross-faction tagging and it even worked on war mode i was so happy I put out feedback. Of course that probably means i might be part of the reason why War Mode doesnāt have cross-faction tagging anymore unfortunately 
That was fast
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Both offer different experiences . World of warcraft is the only game I play these days so might as well play both classic and retail 
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Retail has hard raids when classic ones are just easy. Classes are also slower or lack some utility spells.
There is also the feeling of by being there, done that so donāt wanna replay.
I used to be big on retail but playing classic SoD reminded me that even though along the years the game became better and more convenient it lost something patch notes will never bring back.
And I know itās cliche but the community, I run M+, raids and PvP occasionally but everything feels so empty.
Every person you meet is so secluded, Iāve made like 20 friends on classic whilst on retail I made only 2 friends at best just by playing the game. Classic might be boring and overly frustrating at times but at least I donāt feel lonely when I play it.
Exactly itās been removed.
People will always behave badly. That was my point.
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Classic is more fun gameplay wise, thereās also way less clutter on the screen. Retail is really atrocious on that part. Constant spam of everything I pick up, every class needs pets and I hate the zoo specs, everything has to sparkle and glow like christmas trees. I wish they would dial down on pretty much everything.
But in the end it came down to the playerbase. The classic crowd is too sweaty and is constantly min-maxing everything, that alone removed the fun. I couldnāt be bothered to sit in raids for x amount of months just so I can do a random bgā¦ where I will most likely end up meeting a premadeā¦ becauseā¦ min-max.
Not to mention world buffsā¦ lets trivialize content even further.
So yeah, devs ruin retail, classic is ruined by the playerbase. HC classic was probably the most fun I had there, but it seemed to die out when SoD came along.
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Nailed it imo.
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Classic is boring to me ā¦ Gameplay is way to slow
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I feel we play different games of Retail, which is likely as we play two different times, but Retail is arguably the most anti-social MMO Iāve played, there is very little that will consistently bring people together.
cause of iām playing alone , my limited english xD
And playing how i was playing years prior, alone and at low lvl not really motivating more for a altholic xD
The game not forcing you to constantly play with other people doesnāt make it anti-social, to be honest. Thereās a lot of opportunity for players to play together, either through cooperation or competition. If people choose not to do so, that doesnāt make the game anti-social.
Iād go even one step further and say that those people who choose to not play (much) with others arenāt anti-social either. I think that players who are toxic in a multiplayer environment, who ruin other peopleās gaming experience on purpose, who throw a tantrum when something doesnāt go their way in a group; those are the anti-social people.
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Forcing is the wrong way to describe it, I mean it doesnāt funnel people into actually making long term social interaction that can help facilitate that community and social aspect. I donāt see the same players in the world because of layering, I can be playing a game with millions online and because Iām leveling in war mode, I wonāt see a soul.
WoW is a great solo game with other people around.
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Thatās a fair point.
Itās a double edged sword, I suppose. Features like phasing and such do help the game to run smoother, but yes, it does scatter the playerbase all over the place.
I personally donāt mind, because I care more about immersion than making friends in WoW; and having a bunch of people swarm a place isnāt always the most immersive experience (unless thereās a world boss or something).
Often it āfeels rightā for my character to be walking through the wilderness of Azeroth all alone, if you get my meaning.
Iām more into classic and canāt wait for Cata to reboot. Only draw backā¦ is that I hope that this SoD junk has NOT been included in Classic Cata.
i already played classic when it was classic not this cashcow that it is today
i prefer retail. the cash cow to things to do ratio is better
Because I prefer to play a game, then to feel the atmosphere, and from this side retail is far away forward if to compare with classic, for sure, it would be nice to have this ambience and locations from classic but with retail gameplay, just imagine some stratholme or blackrock deeps added to m+