I played with a 17 year old back when Kronos 2 first launched and he told me he was playing because he had fond memories of playing around the house and growing up with his Dad playing World of Warcraft on the family computer they had in their living room. I think the game was so huge at its peak that there are a lot of people that have had friends and family they remember gushing about World of Warcraft. If you combine that with modern MMORPG gamers that never played old school WoW, I think there will be a huge influx of first time players.
I played with a 17 year old back when Kronos 2 first launched and he told me he was playing because he had fond memories of playing around the house and growing up with his Dad playing World of Warcraft on the family computer they had in their living room. I think the game was so huge at its peak that there are a lot of people that have had friends and family they remember gushing about World of Warcraft. If you combine that with modern MMORPG gamers that never played old school WoW, I think there will be a huge influx of first time players.
I’m very excited to see what those fresh players will think about Classic, whether good or bad thoughts. Truly, I know Classic will not be for everyone, but it surely will be an eye opener for everyone whichever way it goes.
I played with a 17 year old back when Kronos 2 first launched and he told me he was playing because he had fond memories of playing around the house and growing up with his Dad playing World of Warcraft on the family computer they had in their living room. I think the game was so huge at its peak that there are a lot of people that have had friends and family they remember gushing about World of Warcraft. If you combine that with modern MMORPG gamers that never played old school WoW, I think there will be a huge influx of first time players.
this ^ also to add to the point - those who wanted to start playing later on but felt that they missed out on the original hype will want to give classic a go
I strongly believe Classic WoW will live forever and meet our expectations. Although - this may not be the case during launch.
Firstly, I believe this because it's already survived fourteen years with thousands of people playing the game illegally on private servers. If it's lasted this long, it wouldn't surprise me if it'll last another fourteen, or even longer - especially as there never seems to be any great new MMORPG games coming out, and they always seem to flop.
Secondly, I understand that people are worried that now we know so much more about the game it'll ruin the experience - but I don't think this is the case. The game is still immersive, challenging, and most importantly it's still fun to play. Time doesn't change these key factors. Yes, knowledge is power, but having a slightly better understanding of the game doesn't make it easy, it only helps to a slight degree.
Lastly, I believe that during launch Classic WoW will be an incredibly bizarre environment full of nostalgic players looking for that hit muddled in with hardcore, long-time players too. After time, these players will dwindle and we'll mostly be left with the hardcore players, those who appreciate helping others, joining guilds, and just generally loving the game. So what I'm saying here is that I believe the community may not be so great to begin with, but over time it'll get better and better.
Mostly agree with what people here have said.
From my experience playing on private servers, inviting random people for quests, elites, etc is still pretty common and usually appreciated. Something that died in retail with the release of the dungeon tool and just overall content nerfs.
There will be those who just want to solo grind as fast as possible to 60 and ignore other player as good as they can; but for all those who are not playing as hunters or warlocks that is not going to be much of an option in the long run.
Also, most people coming from either Classic or private servers are mostly used to and expect that sort of social interaction and playing-together, not so much because the game forces you to do so more often than current retail, but because they know there are others who think the same way they do.
I don't think it will, but people will be happy. Most of the people is thinking about "re-experiencing vanilla again!" but I don't think that will happen. Mainly because we already have experienced it in either retail or private servers to some degree. Regardless, it will be great.
Correct me if I am wrong,
but Classic is shipping along with Blizzard ID which was not the cause when real Classic launched back then.
I think the experience will not be the same, it has to be worse.
Back then people were literally were sending mails to notify others about certain stuff, now you just do that via Bnet app. It is handy, but it will not be the same.
Back then when you really liked a person, you invited them via facebook or MSN which gave them a little glympse of your daily life. I met soooo many friends that was, I still meet and party with few of them on monthly basis.
Well we have to deal with it and move on, but I still think the community will handle it, although it will not be as epic as it was before :wink: :wink: :wink:
Sure the Classic experience won't be the same, for variety of different reasons. Not only that the game is old and played through by players dozens of times, us who are no longer kids who lived in an entirely different world but also the gaming culture itself is very different from what it used to be and social media is far more relevant nowadays.
But that is not neccessarily a bad thing. Change is inevitable and good in my opinion. I don't neccessarily want to have the same experience people could have back in the day as long as I will be able to experience the core parts, design phylosophies and community aspect of the game with you guys for one last time.
Sure the Classic experience won't be the same, for variety of different reasons. Not only that the game is old and played through by players dozens of times, us who are no longer kids who lived in an entirely different world but also the gaming culture itself is very different from what it used to be and social media is far more relevant nowadays.
Not to mention so many more accessible tools to build communities out of game these days. Anybody can go and create a subreddit or a Discord server and instantly have a place to build up their community. Back in the day it was basically just whatever forums you were invited to/told about and the official WoW forums (which let's be honest, were always pretty bad).
If the Classic playerbase mirrors what I've seen in Barrens Chat, yes. If it mirrors what I've seen in the official Blizzard forums, maybe not. ;-)
Toxic people are everywhere, whether in-game or not. Assuming healthy server populations, there'll be plenty of good people to mingle with.
If the Classic playerbase mirrors what I've seen in Barrens Chat, yes. If it mirrors what I've seen in the official Blizzard forums, maybe not. ;-)
So true.
I shall meet yours ! Unsuspectedly so !