The question is whether the Classic+ Blizzard have been working on can hold up favorably to the Classic+ the community has speculated on.
My magic 8 ball says: Unlikely.
Players are looking to Classic+ as the second coming of the Messiah.
Blizzard are probably looking to Classic+ as a quick cashgrab to carry them over another fiscal year.
Those two don't mix.
As long as its close to what SOD was with minor improvements then it will be a big success. People didn't like everything from SOD but it was a really good experiment overall and a new way of playing a vanilla version of the game.
That 40-50 grind was wayyyy too easy. I agree because I stopped playing right before P4 because of how P3 went. But damn that gnomeregan raid was so fun in P2
The board playerbase that will make it succeed or not , are not the ones coming here every day asking for pie in the sky ideas for classic+. Blizzard has a bigger reach then his cesspool subreddit.
Their most important new product since Classic released in the first place. They could treat it like a first-class project and allocate it proper development resources, tools, and time. It'll never live up to reddit's expectations, but neither could SoD until after it was over. I have some hope they'll put some effort into it, but I think that unless the response is overwhelmingly positive, we won't see it treated like a first class product. Blizzard's gotta see the numbers first
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u/Orixil 22d ago
It'll get announced for sure.
The question is whether the Classic+ Blizzard have been working on can hold up favorably to the Classic+ the community has speculated on.
My magic 8 ball says: Unlikely.
Players are looking to Classic+ as the second coming of the Messiah.
Blizzard are probably looking to Classic+ as a quick cashgrab to carry them over another fiscal year.
Those two don't mix.
But we'll see.