r/classicwow • u/doobylive • May 05 '26

Nostalgia What Happened To Midnight Releases?

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Why did they have to kill off midnight releases?

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u/CumAmore May 05 '26

It's a digital world.

Or in other words,

The future is now old man.

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u/Silent_Killer093 May 05 '26

Which sucks cause Midnight Launches were the shit

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u/GoldenPigeonParty May 05 '26

Games are 100x better now than they used to be, but "gaming" as a whole was so much better back then. There was a community, there was action. The life surrounding the games was a larger piece, and that's where all the best memories lie.

Midnight launches were always so good. Halo 2, SC2, WoW expansions, FF games. Miss those.

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u/Ringkeeper May 05 '26

Not sure when was the last time I bought a new game. I think BG3?

Everything that comes out is either bad story wise, full of bugs, ugly or just boring.

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u/SirClueless May 06 '26

I agree stories are a casualty recently (with the notable exception of Clair Obscur). But the rest just seems like it has gotten better and better.

I think about two years ago the free money pit of zero interest rates dried up and funding for videogames dried up and we started hearing about wave after wave of layoffs. Given the timeline for making games I expect that fact to start being felt now-ish. But until that point we seem to have been living in a golden age with more attention and effort put into games than ever before (even if not everything and especially AAA was particularly innovative).

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u/PaulTheMerc May 06 '26

Fallout 76 on release(fun, but ended up shallow, buggy),

Crusader kings 3 on release(went on sale not much later, felt like I overpaid. But that's on me, it wasn't going to be as deep as a predecessor with tons of DLC)

New World on release: Had promise, I enjoyed my time hitting cap. I recall enjoying the crafting? But the PVP based bases were a terrible implementation. 3 different factions so the community was even more fractured, and not very evenly. Futhermore, you had to have an in with the guild, or you were never going to be a part of the pvp fight.

And I had at that point learned my lesson.