World of Warcraft: Classic

gonna end up fine cause we're all phased from each other

misery said:

I can't wait to see how it all ends up.

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Bring on the shit show!

Probably waiting to see if any last tidbits of info come out so they can be sure they picked the ultimate best server ever. Because we'll settle for nothing less.

You guys realize every time he's asked he delays the announcement back an hour?

Not sure I can resist much longer given the name reservations are happening today....

yea.. it's time

what server you guys going to? we've got a crew going Herod horde

Noodleface said:

Of course they want it to fail. It makes about 90% of the people working on wow meaningless and redundant if it succeeds and bfa tanks

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The thing is though that it doesn't need to mean that. I know it's hard for game development companies to wrap their heads around it, but sometimes their best intentions are based on bad decisions.

If World of Warcraft Classic turns out to be a smashing success, then it would be in their best interest to accept that their current direction for the game (aka BFA) was the result of bad decisions made over the years. If that was the case, then it would be prudent for them to shift their resources from making expansions for current World of Warcraft, and instead start making expansions for World of Warcraft Classic based on the old game design principals that start off as the first expansion to the Classic platform, and not ever branch over to any of the existing expansions.

Unfortunately, most MMO companies are too proud to admit when they were wrong. Sony Online Entertainment (now Daybreak Games) is a shining example of this failure. The Time Locked Progression (TLP) servers was their version of Classic, and it has been a resounding success for many years now, but they never took the hint. Instead of creating new content for TLP, they simply let the TLP servers go up through the existing expansions. This has lead to a recurring cycle of people playing the game for the first few expansions, and then stop playing. It's not that they don't like the game. It's because they don't like the way EverQuest changed over the years, and they don't want to play through those expansions. They didn't want to play through them the first time, and they certainly don't want to play through them again.

Hopefully at some point one of these MMORPG developers will figure out that its ok to start over and take a different path with their game, but who knows if or even when that will happen.

What's wrong with the with reddit server

Pogi.G said:

FFS, most decent laptops can handle wow. Just carry it to the bathroom with you.

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I had a buddy back in the day that literally played from the bathroom on his laptop because he didn't want his girlfriend to know he was playing at the time.

I was wondering, is the auto loot feature in WoW Classic? Anybody that has played beta or stress test know?

I really liked being able to just right click a corpse, and everything automatically went in my bags. Call me lazy, but it's a quality of life feature that I love.

Pharone said:

instead start making expansions for World of Warcraft Classic based on the old game design principals that start off as the first expansion to the Classic platform, and not ever branch over to any of the existing expansions.

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Do they even recognize the problem that led to BFA's/Legion/WOD's collapse?

It started with the LFD tool, and getting rid of arena teams, and sharding.

Literally everything they did to make the game "more accessible" turned it from a online RPG into a 3D game event lobby. There is no community, and Blizzard killed it.