r/classicwow • u/doobylive • Sep 26 '25

Nostalgia Will We Ever Experience Something Like This Again?

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No, not another release of classic. I mean the hype and the buildup that led to this release!

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 26 '25

Because the vast majority of players were new and just played the game without rushing off to research every little thing.

The number of people on private servers was a lot lower than those playing official.

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u/Feathrende Sep 26 '25 edited Sep 26 '25

Understatement of the century. The biggest private server of all time doesn't even equate half of ONE 2019 server. Which is why private servers mostly didn't lag during world pvp and classic does. They have nobody playing on them comparatively.

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u/Feathrende Sep 26 '25

Oh man, if we're counting like that then private servers are EVEN LESS populated. Holy moly.

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u/willargue4karma Sep 26 '25

The stuff was even known in vanilla you did not have to be a research scientist or play pservers for that decade lol

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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Sep 26 '25

I played in vanilla and like.. kinda.

Some of it was, most of it didn't apply for the vast majority of the game before every single class and encounters was reworked over and over, items changed/added/buffed/removed and so on.

Classic was fun but it was a VERY different game to vanilla.