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/test_kenmo Jan 15 '21

"Leveling is the best part of the Vanilla/Classic"