I want classic to remain like Vanilla was throughout Vanilla's life cycle. I would love them to then go a different direction with the game and try some new things. For example, I would love them to try adding expansions/content releases WITHOUT increasing the level cap. I believe the constant level cap increases have been detrimental to the overall game as a whole. I never liked the way it felt after having a max level character, spending so much time on that character with getting great gear, only to have it replaced by crappy looking green quest gear at the start of every new expansion. Also, the level cap increases eventually made the leveling experience (which should be a huge part of every MMO) pointless. New players can now create a free level 110, completely skipping years of content. People can spend $60 to get a max level character (Might still be just 110, haven't played in a while), it is ridiculous. I think there is a better solution concerning increasing player power with new expansions, like maybe gear gets stronger and adds new effects on spells, I don't know.
classic TBC
This is a contradiction of terms, just as "Cataclysm Legion" is a contradiction of terms.
classic vanilla
This is redundant, as much as "couch sofa" is redundant.
I would prefer classic+ content, redoing TBC seems like a massive mistake, you're just back to square one after tbc, what's next?
And now you don't have that classic+ window open, you opened a can of worms, force it into wrath? into cata?
And each subsequent client is gonna have less players and would fragment the playerbase between both, between all 3 of them, 4 of them, etc.
And the mess that would be figuring out how this cuts into retail, into classic, how to manage characters and progression between both, the biggest reason why classic is happening is because almost no one interested in it wants bfa, there's almost no overlap, not the same when you add tbc to the mix and you at the very least split classic playerbase if not outright kill it.
I also believe most of current wow problems stem from philosophy changes introduced in TBC such as flying and raiding size changes, people don't want to hear it but adding tbc would do more harm than good imo.
Blizz no doubt saw the major success of OSRS and I really doubt they won't do the same.
I think there is still a lot of things they can add on or improve upon for vanilla. Example one being making EPL "open world BG" more relevant. Have many world events that can be completely custom but doesn't sacrifice the integrity of the game. Things of those sorts.
I also would like to see a "corrected" TBC like removing flying mounts.
I also would like to see a "corrected" TBC like removing flying mounts.
Noooo flying was one of the best things about BC! The only real mistakes in BC were the following:
- Removing Kazzak
- That stupid scaling thing where characters get worse instead of better as they level up
Personally one of the most important things for me about classic is that it remains static. That they don't start adding more levels like a BC release and such. Then it'll just become the same as retail for me. I don't want the eternal resets and catchups. I'd like to feel like vanilla content is finite and I can finish it, because it gives me something to work towards without constantly moving goal posts. Then there will be alts, pvp, rp, socialising etc if I want to keep playing after 'finishing my main' if one can say such a thing. I want a vanilla world contained in itself.
I also worry that adding say BC servers you can transfer to etc will be dangerous for the pure vanilla populations. Atm everyone will have just classic or retail, but if we add bc and wrath to that I worry the population will be spread too thin to give a proper authentic experience.
But that's all just entirely my own selfish thoughts. I totally understand there are people who want other things, such as indeed the authentic TBC experience. I personally just don't want to sacrifice the vanilla experience we are finally getting to have it.
Personally one of the most important things for me about classic is that it remains static. That they don't start adding more levels like a BC release and such. Then it'll just become the same as retail for me. I don't want the eternal resets and catchups. I'd like to feel like vanilla content is finite and I can finish it, because it gives me something to work towards without constantly moving goal posts. Then there will be alts, pvp, rp, socialising etc if I want to keep playing after 'finishing my main' if one can say such a thing. I want a vanilla world contained in itself.
I also worry that adding say BC servers you can transfer to etc will be dangerous for the pure vanilla populations. Atm everyone will have just classic or retail, but if we add bc and wrath to that I worry the population will be spread too thin to give a proper authentic experience.
But that's all just entirely my own selfish thoughts. I totally understand there are people who want other things, such as indeed the authentic TBC experience. I personally just don't want to sacrifice the vanilla experience we are finally getting to have it.
Well I think both ways are possible. Let's say they plan on going for the pure vanilla experience, and then once Naxx has been out and finished for like 6+ months, then stuff begins to change, i.e. BC or additional vanilla style content. I mean maybe it's not to your satisfaction, but you could still do the "real" vanilla content without bumping up against the non-vanilla content. Just because it gets added to the game doesn't mean you have to do it.
Well I think both ways are possible. Let's say they plan on going for the pure vanilla experience, and then once Naxx has been out and finished for like 6+ months, then stuff begins to change, i.e. BC or additional vanilla style content. I mean maybe it's not to your satisfaction, but you could still do the "real" vanilla content without bumping up against the non-vanilla content. Just because it gets added to the game doesn't mean you have to do it.
I'm particularly worried that such added content (like TBC) will take people out of the vanilla content making it harder to enjoy the authentic experience. I'm not entirely convinced there is enough of an audience to support both a large vanilla and a large BC community.
TBC added too much crap to the game. So my vote is for newly developed classic content post-Naxxramas.
No gear resets. No flying mounts. No dailies. No easy mode.
Well I think both ways are possible. Let's say they plan on going for the pure vanilla experience, and then once Naxx has been out and finished for like 6+ months, then stuff begins to change, i.e. BC or additional vanilla style content. I mean maybe it's not to your satisfaction, but you could still do the "real" vanilla content without bumping up against the non-vanilla content. Just because it gets added to the game doesn't mean you have to do it.
I'm particularly worried that such added content (like TBC) will take people out of the vanilla content making it harder to enjoy the authentic experience. I'm not entirely convinced there is enough of an audience to support both a large vanilla and a large BC community.
This is ultimately how I feel. I don't think the niche player base is large enough to support multiple servers of each expansion. We've proven there is a market for Vanilla, and I think you could have some success at the TBC level as well (maybe 1 server), but that's about it.
Server populations would begin to dwindle like crazy if they opened up a server for each expansion. It's too sporadic.
Didn't someone at Blizzcon ask what will happen to classic down the line and John Hight responded that probably TBC will the logical step? I can't remember if that really happened or if it was my imagination. If TBC and the other expansion happen I think there is a huge missed opportunity here. I love classic and everything about it but I think If they would have rerelased classic with the intention to feed it new content or expansions with the classic mentality in mind it could have potention to be a bigger success than current WoW.