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Post by
Jkpman
Moving on..
Well personally I'm curious about the direction Blizzard will take with the classic servers.
I don't claim to know a lot about how private servers have been run, but from what I have seen many of them choose patch 1.12, which is basically the patch before BC.
So.. how can one possibly say they have had the Vanilla experience when quite frankly they've skipped so much of what was wrong?
Which begs the question, which patch will Blizzard come in with? I personally would like the Classic version to be true and start on a two year journey from patch 1, but it may well be the best face Blizzard can put on the game, to make it more appealing to the consumer base.
My decision would be to fix all the bugs. (anyone remember getting stuck looting and kneeling down for 30 mins) but stay true. And you may say I want people to suffer, well lol maybe I do, but I also want people to find a new appreciation of the game, because despite all the faults it was still miles ahead of anything else.
Post by
Adamsm
I can't see them doing progression on the Classic servers; since you know, some classes didn't even exist in the early builds. More then likely they'll do it at the last patch when Naxx was open, and then just leave it be.
I'm also thinking that the 'smart' thing to do would be to put in the quality of life improvements; allow for the looking for group tool, the summoning stones at instances with the current set up where you only need two rather then 3 like it was originally, mounts at 20/40 rather then 40/60. Things that won't make Vanilla such a huge slog. For all my mocking, I get people want to play the game as it was, but a lot of those bugs and issues made it a chore; make it so that people can have 'fun' while playing rather then it just being that slog to 60. But it would be nice to put back in the 10 man L/UBRS; let people see what the zerg was like back then to race to the bottom of Lower then charge into Upper and boot ass to the top. Same with original Strath; it was fun doing that place with 10 people...the looting logistics were a nightmare, but nothing like watching Baron eradicate the entire party in one go lol.
Post by
Jkpman
Well technically we now have major advancements such as mumble, battle.net which on their own are major game changers compared to what we had back in Vanilla.
We are also so much more informed, thanks to sites like this, so yeah not even close to being as noobish.
I dunno, I think it would be a grind to 60 but if you remember stuff like MC, it was pretty much tuned to be cleared if a 50% or more mortality rate.
Post by
Rankkor
I've heard some pretty disturbing rumors that the classic servers will require their own client, their own account, and most importantly, their own sub.
I sincerely hope that's nothing but rumors and hearsay, because if it ever happens to be true, so long goes any potential plan to play in them for A LOT of people.
The mere idea of paying a sub fee to play a game that's gonna stay stagnant and never ever progress forward feels as dumb as paying a subscription fee to play skyrim. No more expansions, or DLCs, just the vanilla skyrim, same content forever.
The servers need to be either free, or associated with your main account, so that your sub pays for both current and classic realms.
Post by
Adamsm
Well technically we now have major advancements such as mumble, battle.net which on their own are major game changers compared to what we had back in Vanilla.
We are also so much more informed, thanks to sites like this, so yeah not even close to being as noobish.
I dunno, I think it would be a grind to 60 but if you remember stuff like MC, it was pretty much tuned to be cleared if a 50% or more mortality rate.
Oh I know we have a lot of advancements...but other things still really sucked in Vanilla and early days of BC; the slog was real lol, and it would be nice to have that not be as vicious/crappy as it was originally since there are some changes they could add in to improve it in game. You know the add-on community is going to blow up again as people have to set things up in regards to the Classic server.
I've heard some pretty disturbing rumors that the classic servers will require their own client, their own account, and most importantly, their own sub.
I sincerely hope that's nothing but rumors and hearsay, because if it ever happens to be true, so long goes any potential plan to play in them for A LOT of people.
The mere idea of paying a sub fee to play a game that's gonna stay stagnant and never ever progress forward feels as dumb as paying a subscription fee to play skyrim. No more expansions, or DLCs, just the vanilla skyrim, same content forever.
The servers need to be either free, or associated with your main account, so that your sub pays for both current and classic realms.
Eh, too early to listen to rumours like that, since they are only just hiring the team. Not gonna lie, I can see Blizzard doing that, but I'll wait for it rather then casting my standard doom and gloom outlook on the subject.
Post by
Jkpman
I've heard some pretty disturbing rumors that the classic servers will require their own client, their own account, and most importantly, their own sub.
I sincerely hope that's nothing but rumors and hearsay, because if it ever happens to be true, so long goes any potential plan to play in them for A LOT of people.
The mere idea of paying a sub fee to play a game that's gonna stay stagnant and never ever progress forward feels as dumb as paying a subscription fee to play skyrim. No more expansions, or DLCs, just the vanilla skyrim, same content forever.
The servers need to be either free, or associated with your main account, so that your sub pays for both current and classic realms.
That would defeat the purpose in my opinion, it would simply drive people back to the private servers, It may be calling the bluff of the pirates but yes if the above is true it would probably kill the plan before it even begins. Of course that might be what Blizzard want, as they've pretty much always said they don't want to do classic, this might be a way of putting the issue to bed for good. "A we did it but you didn't buy it" kind of thing.
That said, My thoughts now are that it will take a couple of years before we see anything, and just a hunch I have is that it might be free content "given" to players on the landmark 15th Anniversary.
I can't really see it costing anything because if I am to believe the some speculation from various sources, the rise in subs alone will keep the game profitable for years to come.
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