Would you pay for a Vanilla server?

[Zafire]

Here's how I think they should handle it:

Regular sub = $15/month for live, current WoW.
Premium sub = $20/month for live AND legacy WoW.
Legacy sub = $10/month for exclusively legacy WoW.

Gives everyone who wants to play Legacy the option and doesn't force returning players to sub for Live that they'll never play.

Personally I'd definitely try it, I don't know if I'd love it or hate it. I have fond memories of Vanilla but I fear they're rose-tinted memories and going back to it after all the QoL improvements on Live would make me hate the game. The leveling may be fun, but farming for days on end for Resistance gear for every raid would be a killer..

I think $15 should access you everything, and only $10 if you want to play only on legacy servers. Since I am a PvPer this would give me a lot more to do.

[Seefer]

Except free isn't a payment method...free is free...do I need to define free for you? But lets look at it...it takes 3 options just to beat I wouldn't play it even if it was free...and you wonder why Blizzard doesn't bother with Vanilla servers? Well your answer is up there up top ^

I never said WoD was perfect...but it's leaps and bounds above how craptastic Vanilla was...at least with WoD I don't have to worry about a long grueling grind where 2/3rds of it I don't even have access to the slowest of mounts...at least I can play the spec I want and not be ridiculed and have gear built for that spec...most importantly of all I have the option to do things I haven't done over and over and over again....a decade ago.

Zealots like you are exactly what I'm talking about...will say or do anything to try and prove your weak point, putting words in my mouth...show me where I once said "WoD is the best expansion/game ever and the players love it!" Show me where I said that and I will concede to you that Vanilla is the best...

Hm...........did I say YOU do that or did I say there are lots of people? Also I never said Vanilla was the best personally I prefer TBC, and I know heaven forbid you actually have to take your time and not blow through content just to scream to Blizzard you are bored.

[glorygores]

Only thing that made Nostalrius somewhat interesting was the fact that it was planned to be a Progression server. That's the only thing I'd be somewhat interested and only if it was bundled into the current sub price.

[PolarityER]

Part of the WoW subscription would be the way to do it. It's really just a specialty server of WoW. Plus if you are paying a flat WoW sub to play on the Vanilla server, some of those returning players/new players to Vanilla might check out the newer game. If it more in addition to WoW sub I wouldn't play it, if it costs less than a WoW sub I would drop normal WoW sub for it. $15 a month feels like more money a month than it used to, so I doubt they would create a new game at that price. Yeah, gotta be a part of WoW sub.

[zorkuus]

Only thing that made Nostalrius somewhat interesting was the fact that it was planned to be a Progression server. That's the only thing I'd be somewhat interested and only if it was bundled into the current sub price.

You can already get a progression server with the current sub fee.

Part of the WoW subscription would be the way to do it. It's really just a specialty server of WoW.

Except it wouldn't be. Different code.

[badaku]

I wouldn't sub to a vanilla server but I'd sub to 2005.

[Kallisto]

Once again you build up a friends list or heaven forbid you take your own advice and ask a guild member, yip they actually existed even in vanilla.

But as said above flying has killed wpvp and interaction. It's not just because I dislike it, it's what it has done to the community.

Fuck the financial side of things, this is mmo champ and not dragons den. Warcraft was booming before they added lfr, they got greedy and decided to cater for every man and his dog.

I never said they did not exist. But try going on at midnight server time and doing it, you know because you work a shift pattern and everyone is in bed.

Wpvp was dead the moment BGs came about.

Yes lets fuck the financial side of things. You know what pays for the game, the shareholders who fund the programming. If they look at raiding, see only 5% do it (pre LFR) and ask "How can we justify spending so much resources which so few will actually see." what kind of response do you think they will have. They will demand the raiding portion be shut down because it isn't cost effective.

This might not be dragons den but if you can't comprehend finances and that any business profit comes before some random nobody like yourself (or myself or any random person on this forum) then you're delusional

[Vaerys]

You nostalgic people are so funny...you amaze me...no matter how much of a piece of crap something is you nostalgic people can trick yourselves into believing what you like is the best thing since sliced bread.

No matter who tries to tell you otherwise that you're wrong...you think you're right...even the developers of the game itself tells you no but you seem to think you're right...well good for you...

Since the nature of enjoyment is a subjective thing, you don't get to tell others what they do and don't enjoy.

you're nothing but a dirty thief and you and everyone else got lucky worse things didn't happen. But in the end of the day you're wrong and your pirated software was shut down. So you lose...just like you're losing in the poll as well!

Nope. And a poll of MMO-C doesn't mean much to me about whether Blizzard or private server players are doing the right thing or not.

I've been subscribed to live WoW continuously since vanilla release, much of that time with multiple accounts, and I've never played on a private server. However, I deeply sympathize with those who have their enjoyment deliberately destroyed by a company unwilling to provide an equivalent experience.

[Racthoh]

only if it's included in my wow sub because i'm not paying 2 subs.

[Nihilist74]

I wouldn't want to play vanilla wow for free. I would pay to play mists of pandaria again though.

[Guldur]

I d pay full price. What is killing WoW is the daily / weekly reward grinding. I thought about it and this was not a thing at the time when I enjoyed wow the most.

[Tart]

I never said they did not exist. But try going on at midnight server time and doing it, you know because you work a shift pattern and everyone is in bed.

Wpvp was dead the moment BGs came about.

Yes lets fuck the financial side of things. You know what pays for the game, the shareholders who fund the programming. If they look at raiding, see only 5% do it (pre LFR) and ask "How can we justify spending so much resources which so few will actually see." what kind of response do you think they will have. They will demand the raiding portion be shut down because it isn't cost effective.

This might not be dragons den but if you can't comprehend finances and that any business profit comes before some random nobody like yourself (or myself or any random person on this forum) then you're delusional

See what i mean, 2 lousy sentences about game play and a full on paragraph about the financial side. Granted it is a business but open me a legacy server, take my money and then bleed the rest of the player base through retail.

The only finance i care about is the cost of the sub that leaves my bank every month. And once again if you think Bg's killed Wpvp then that just begs the question, did you even play in vanilla?

[Ickabob]

If it was officially sanctioned and run by Blizzard, I'd totally play it, but only if it was part of the current sub model and not some extra service I'd have to pay extra for.

[TheFuse]

Absolutely not. The game was fun and good at the time, but there's been so many changes for the better and for worse that I could never go back. A prime example is with Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow being released on the Virtual Console. I picked up Yellow with the intentions on eventually transferring my pokemon to Sun/Moon. The game is nearly unplayable for me after enjoying the recent titles.

[Serissa]

Watching the Nostalrius discussion has been interesting, lots of talk of how Blizzard should launch their own Classic servers. I'm curious to see what people think, whether they'd actually pay for the old product, or if really it's only worthwhile as a free game.

This shit only happens because it's free. How many people plays on servers where you have to pay? There's your answer.

Would you pay for a Vanilla server?

I did it once. About 11 years ago. And from current standing I can proudly say - vanilla was shit. It was new and fun in some aspects. I had my fun back then, but compared to later (and even current) expansions vanilla is utter garbage.

[justinhalfout]

Pay for it? Fuck no I wouldn't.

I might mess around on such servers for the lulz but I would much rather see and support improvements made to the current state of the game.

[RAGINGBRODADDY]

I'm convinced at this point that the only people that hate classic never got anywhere or did anything with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYFD06UFscw

This is a video of four 40man raids fighting ontop of a mountain, 2 horde 2 alliance. They're contesting not only the opposing faction, but the opposing guilds ON their factions. Shit like this was common place on Nostalrius and this wasn't the first or last time it happened.

Every week you could expect some kind of crazy battle or big event. Something was always going on and people were constantly online. You could log in at 3am and find people in every zone questing, farming, doing dungeons; even raiding. The server was alive. How anyone could prefer the dead horse of game that is retail is beyond me.

[PingPong]

maybe i'll mess around with it for a bit,but I don't really see myself playing the same content that never get update.

[Demoneq]

Instead of classic servers, what about some sort of world state similar to timewalking where we could visit old raids, instances (want 10m stratholme again lol) and world bosses

That'd be nice, the reason why I'd maybe try such a server in the first place would be trying all the "vanilla" stuff I didn't get to (started in TBC, so did at least some, like old Zul'Gurub and some world dragons, but not at 60, "as intended" etc.), like bosses/raids, but mostly the quest chains, like the warlock (and paladin) epic summoned mount, some sort of Onyxia unlocking chain (I recall someone saying it was heavy with lore), this sort of things.

I'd only do it once and move on though, so for all my negative view of blizzard right now, I can see why they wouldn't provide that.
(especially since I don't care enough to actually want to pay for it)

[feellucky]

I never said they did not exist. But try going on at midnight server time and doing it, you know because you work a shift pattern and everyone is in bed.

Wpvp was dead the moment BGs came about.

Yes lets fuck the financial side of things. You know what pays for the game, the shareholders who fund the programming. If they look at raiding, see only 5% do it (pre LFR) and ask "How can we justify spending so much resources which so few will actually see." what kind of response do you think they will have. They will demand the raiding portion be shut down because it isn't cost effective.

This might not be dragons den but if you can't comprehend finances and that any business profit comes before some random nobody like yourself (or myself or any random person on this forum) then you're delusional

wpvp dead when BGs came out huh? Thats funny because I remember tons of wPvP throughout vanilla and they had all the vanilla BGs on nost and there was wpvp even on the pve server all the time.