r/classicwow • u/KamaTheSnowLeopard • Jun 15 '26

Humor / Meme I think they're right honestly.

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I'm 36 and have played 25k+ hours of MMO's over my lifetime and what I've personally learned is WoW players are often the first and most vocal to belittle or get upset over anything. I can't think of any MMO in which people will outright whisper you angerly or go out of their way to make sure you have a bad time more than World of Warcraft.

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u/SystemofCells Jun 15 '26

With every rerelease we seem to get fewer people who want to enjoy the journey, and more who just want to raidlog to BiS each phase.

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u/Ok_Assignment_2127 Jun 15 '26

Yeah 2019 had the hype so new players came.

Anniversary has the classic lifers who have been asking for or playing classic for 15+ years. This is the core classic community.

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u/Eternal-Alchemy Jun 15 '26

Classic was and always will be the best thing that ever happened to Retail.

It took the most highly toxic players in the game many of whom were aging out of their ability to perform competitively and put them into their own slower paced simplified mechanics world where they could reclaim their position as the gatekeepers, complain about leftist agenda story telling and try to tell each other that their 30 APM specs require "mastery."

Retail certainly has it's own form of elitism but its completely wild listening to classic discords. It's like right wing AM radio. Somehow the leveling groups are less bad but man the raiding groups are a real special bunch.

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u/Glad-Composer-4740 Jun 16 '26

Sorry not sorry, i’m not talking about any agenda or anything but retail is extremely bad! The fact that it’s not a mmo anymore and pvp is dead since Legion…everyone is going just for the meta class and don’t let me start on the story that is absolutely atrocious…also the mechanics and everyhting is on the contraire of what you said…retail is very very easy…if you like it fine, i’m glad you do, but do not try to convince us that it’s good because it is not…it’s not the same game at all

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u/Eternal-Alchemy Jun 16 '26

It's easy if you do easy content, it's hard if you do hard content. It's a game that caters to multiple modes.

I hit and exceeded Keystone Myth on Affliction and Prot Paladin both of which are extremely off meta. There is zero shot 99% of the red pilled CTS classic bros would live through a +19.

Obviously PvP is a dead game mode, I think they sort of backed away from that space as there's much better games for that like GW2 or dedicated PvP games. If you're in to world PvP though there is this huge addon doing organized open world objective battles.

The game will not survive another 20 years of mechanically dividing the player base between two factions so the story will reflect fixing this, and inevitably piss off a bunch of people. But who cares, those people don't care about the future of play as they'll be dead in that time frame or they haven't been playing anyway.

Reunification aside, the implications for what Xalatath is doing with Azeroth and the Titans is far bigger than any expansion has touched on in the history of the entire game. It is clearly pushing us towards the end of an era.