Look at private servers, the biggest pool of private servers has always been classic servers, while when choosing a private server you can choose between any expansion. Why is this? Because Classic is the most unique version of world of warcraft. No other expansion has 40 man raiding, this pvp system, and this much disparity between classes and specs.
TBC is wanted and will be looked for an most players will play tbc exclusively for a unforseeable time, but many will return to classic because it will always be there to return to. And eventually you will want to do the raids on level again, or re-experiance the 40 man raids, or just gimp yourself out with all the worldbuffs and get the overwhelming power feeling.
This is not true the currently largest pool of players is wotlk private servers with servers with over 22k online or are you talking about back when nostalrius existed?
Which was popular back then because of the server stability and how close it was to the original mainly because of the passionate developers they sold the server to someone else and it dropped players massively because of the changes there are alot of private servers that do not do the games justice and are mostly cash grab where you can buy items or customized powerups instead of a passion project even blizz like tbc servers were nothing like tbc so private servers are not a good method of judging what players want.
I for one have no desire to ever return to classic itâs good for one play through TBC just provides so much more for me TBC and Wrath is the best versions classic is nowhere near the level of those.
Before classic release Classic had a lot more players and servers, naturally classic has shfted this.
I both agree and disagree. If you look at individual private servers, there are a lot of custom things, or just even regular things that players donât want. But the quantity of players playing on them tells something.
Its that quantity of players on private servers that caused classic to be created (with a little help from greed and legal department) And for TBCC they hope to improve the player number again to draw people from private servers to blizzard again. Giving Seal of blood to alliance is purely a private server thing. you would not hear people complain if they didnât it was expected due to âno changesâ. The fact that they do look at private servers is both a good and bad thing depending on your ideology.
Of course classic servers were the most popular.
At least with Nostalrius, since it was stable.
Classicâs PvP system is also completely trash, but you do realise that the private servers did fresh realms every so often?
If Blizzard does not do fresh realms, why would they return to classic exactly?
I donât even know, whether Iâd return to classic even with fresh realms.
I loved the leveling experience with others as you could see dozens of other players with you in world.
If that was too long for you to read, letâs put this more succinctly:
Why do you think the whole âfreshâ movement started with Vanilla pservers, rather than TBC or WotLK?
Simple, because while 2.4.3 and 3.3.5 are long-term sustainable game states, where thereâs a healthy turnover of players, content to do both in PvE and PvP, and a reasonable âgearing periodâ between fresh max lvl and âready to playâ, Classic 1.12 last phase is a hot mess that almost nobody would want to play for longer than a few months. And the sheer time it takes to get a char from fresh 60 to Naxx ready is borderline ridiculous and doesnât allow a guild to recover from even a few defections unless they poach from other guilds, slowly leading entire servers to death.
Classic players like to vaunt about âClassic replayabilityâ, but the only thing that has kept Vanilla playable throughout these years are the constant resets. Everytime a Vanilla server went into AQ phase, the cries for âFRESHâ always start to echo again because the game itself becomes a frickin mess. Meanwhile, as I said before, ppl have been playing âeternal SWPâ TBC and âeternal ICCâ WotLK for years.
