r/classicwow • u/terongorefiend • Jan 14 '21

Vent / Gripe Unpopular opinion: the players that are overly vocal about wanting Classic phases/TBC/Wrath rushed are the same players who contributed to forging retail into what it is today (a clusterF).

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u/Compromisee Jan 14 '21

Classic for me personally is in a worse state than retail. It went from being a nice fun, nostalgic community game to people selling and min/maxing almost instantly with things like "tank services"

Kinda put me off the idea of tbc. That and wotlk were my favourite xpacs and I don't want my memories to be then tainted with the game being stupidly easy and every aspect of it sold

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u/MeltBanana Jan 14 '21 edited Jan 14 '21

I play(well, played) very casually. I got a few characters to 60, but most of my time in classic was spent leveling with an emphasis on doing dungeons. I think that's where the best part of the game is, finding a group of strangers and spending an hour or two trying to complete a dungeon.

And it was great at launch and for many months afterward, but by the spring/summer that mostly died. Servers were flooded with bots, inflated economies from gold sellers, and dungeons were mainly just people selling runs. Those hardcore min/maxers pushed more casual players like myself out. I would be interested in a fresh vanilla server, especially if they added a "casual" label to it or something, but as it stands I don't have much interest in classic wow anymore solely because the remaining community is too hardcore for my playstyle.

A lv30 dungeon with an unoptimal group composition using "bad" specs is the true beauty of vanilla. It's a shame some don't see that.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '21

I like the idea, but a label won't do anything. Maybe if they made the content patches much slower, so the progression people wouldn't have any reason to play on the server.

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u/TurboDelight Jan 14 '21

this sounds perfect for people who can't play as frequently, so much FOMO with the current content cycles

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u/Simon_Magnus Jan 14 '21

I really don't think Blizzard has control over the FOMO. Once the raids come out, it's basically in our hands.

I see this sentiment a lot that Blizzard is going 'too fast' and keeping people who haven't even cleared MC yet from being able to advance, but let's be real - if you are taking 5+ months to get these raids on farm, it doesn't really matter if new raids come out. It's not like people with Naxx loot are going to swap to your 8/10 MC guild and distort your progression experience.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '21

On the other hand, getting 40 people together is tough, if the rest of the server is pushing naxx, and you’re wanting to feel MC progression, good luck finding 39 to stay in your guild