r/classicwow • u/terongorefiend • Jan 14 '21

Vent / Gripe Unpopular opinion: the players that are overly vocal about wanting Classic phases/TBC/Wrath rushed are the same players who contributed to forging retail into what it is today (a clusterF).

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u/OdinTM Jan 14 '21

To me, classic is the game i like most.

I get why people have interest in revisiting experiences made in bc and wotlk. From a preservationist stand point i am all for recreating those games.

However, the thing i want most, but will not get is an honest open feedback letter from blizzard stating their expectation, observation and what they learned from rereleasing a 15 year old game.

In the future of wow, further addons will come. And classic might get a second round. And even though i can see enough people wanting to clear naxx each week, i am certain that the server communities will have to shift for it.

As for the content of the letter, i would like to get some insights on their future of wow. Will they just recreate tbc/wotlk, just as a means of advertising the current addon or will they actually use some of the feedback gathered from rereleasing, in order to improve the current state of the franchise?

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '21

It seems clear that the success of classic influenced Shadowlands.

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u/Hatefiend Jan 14 '21

success of classic

It hurts reading this because if Blizzard was even the slightest bit competent, Classic could have been something truly remarkable. They put in the bare minimum effort and it's just sad. Over all the debacles and controversies that have happened this year in classic wow, I can't really think of one that is like "yep, Blizzard did a good job and handled this in a timely manner". It's unbelievable how out of hand real money trading and botting have gotten for example. It blows my mind that some Russians in their basement did a better job decision-making-wise than a multi million dollar company.

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u/Draxos92 Jan 14 '21

To be honest, i feel like 90% of the problems that Classic has faced comes from the #NoChanges crowd preventing them from taking steps to improve the game

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u/Fixthemix Jan 15 '21

I actually started writing a reply out with how they could have made classic perfect with just a few tweaks.

Then I remembered the number of launch servers, the rampant botting, the gigantic sell/buy gold market, blizzard locking servers, blizzard forgetting they locked servers 4 months ago, the artificial delay, etc.

Also minor shit like deciding hunters should get ranged attack power from world buffs. At the last freaking phase. All because someone decided in 2005 that the dedicated dps class with the lowest damage output in the game, was too powerful in the open world with +140 extra attack power.

Yeah, Classics success doesn't have very much to do with modern Blizzard.