Why was this removed? (Vanilla Rain)

[Rudkobing]

Chocolate Rain
Some stay dry and others feel the pain
Chocolate Rain
A baby born will die before the sin

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The school books say it can't be here again
Chocolate Rain
The prisons make you wonder where it went

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Build a tent and say the world as dry
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Zoom the camera out and see the lie

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Forecast to be falling yesterday
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Only in the past is what they say

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Raised your neighborhood insurance rates
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Makes us happy 'livin in a gate

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Made me cross the street the other day
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Made you turn your head the other way

(Chorus)
Chocolate Rain
History quickly crashing through your veins
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Using you to fall back down again
[Repeat]

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Seldom mentioned on the radio
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It's the fear your leaders can't control

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Worse than swearing, worse than calling names
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Say it publicly, and you're insane

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No one wants to hear about it now
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Wish real hard it goes away somehow

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Makes the best of friends begin to fight
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But did they know each other in the light?

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Every February washed away
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Stays behind as colors celebrate

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The same crime has a higher price to pay
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The judge and jury swear it's not in the face

(Chorus)

Chocolate Rain
Dirty secrets of economy
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Turns that body into GDP

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The bell curve blames the baby's DNA
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But test scores are how much the parents made

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Flippin' cars in France the other night
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Cleans the sewers out beneath Mumbai

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'Cross the world and back it's all the same
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Angels cry and shake their heads in shame

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Lifts the ark of paradise in sin
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Which part do you think you're 'livin in?

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More than marchin' more than past and law
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Remake how we got to where we are

[SL1200]

but......why?

I have vision problems, idk why it's an involuntary reaction to the raindrops and flashing from the lightning. It causes my eyes to twitch. I have this problem with a lot of games. Usually when a game gives me eye trouble I won't play it, but i've been in wow for so many years it's hard to just quit playing because of the discomfort. I try to just move to another zone. In vanilla we could just disable the rain. I don't know why they removed the option.

I don't want them to take rain, fog effects, and night time away from you folks with healthy eyes, but it's something that causes discomfort for people like me.

Just let us turn it off. It seem so simple.

[Ealyssa]

Don't we have this in Stormheim?

Only when the weather is nice. Kappa

[arcaneshot]

Oh god, I hadn't seen that ingame for years!!! That was amazing!

What are people acting like they've never seen rain? Go sit in Stranglethorn and just wait for a while.

[merlin2oo2]

I love watching thunderstorms roll into Halfhill. The first time it happened, I was mesmerized. It felt organic and made the world feel alive.

[Azgraal]

What are people acting like they've never seen rain? Go sit in Stranglethorn and just wait for a while.

I know there is, and in many more zones, but although it now seems much more "cinematic" and better quality effects, this old rain just painted a scenario of raining cats and dogs.

[stomination]

I wonder if the vanilla ppl want this.

[rated]

Sorry but people claiming "visual distress" are full of absolute crap.

they're the same people to complain the second blizzard changes their colour scheme on the forums. "it's too bright!" Go where some sunglasses.

[Rolex Snob]

Wow I forgot all about that. It is a shame that they got rid of it. I still remember seeing the rain in STV on PTR when it was added. I was blown away. It looked and felt great.

ack ack!!!

[Solarnova]

The dynamic rain and snow storms of Classic World of Warcraft are so much better than the static 'drizzle' effect we get in Stormheim and other zones.

Also, night is still not night.

[Tyrgannus]

Weather causes an issue with some computers? I haven't had a top of the line computer in my entire WoW career and I've never noticed a problem

[Faenskap]

I don't like rain.

It doesn't create immersion for me, instead it brings me back to reality, same with snow. I HATE snow. In the game, it's a lot harder for me to see anything, same with darkness.

Then again, my visually favorite zones are the green and open ones

An option to toggle off/on weather effects is something Blizzard could consider

[Spray]

Real rain is transparant. The in-game rain I see is not. I bet that that's the main issue.

But transparant rain in-game... heh... probably a massive GPU-stressor.

Yeah, real rain maybe, but the general depiction of rain in games/comics/even movies (I mean, remember Matrix?) is not transparent at all, this is why we're quite longing for it.

[Battlebeard]

I wish there was real weather effects. Like serious rainstorms etc. And the nights need to be ALOT darker.

Has NO ONE on entire Blizzard EVER BEEN OUTSIDE during the night? They seem completly oblivious to what darkness looks like...

[shyguybman]

Don't we have this in Stormheim?

yes and it's absolutely horrible you can't see shit. Maybe I'm weird but I don't care about darker nights or weather effects since I don't really pay attention to that kind of thing.

[Deleted]

If I remember correctly, they removed the dynamic weather when they did the old world zone changes in Cataclysm.

[Sturmbringe]

I'm sure there's a reason for it, I just don't know it. I wish we still had this

Knowing the kind of people that play Retail, thousands of them probably complained to Blizzard that it got their toons wet thus causing them great grief. They recommended to add Kung Fu Pandas and Pokemon to the game instead.

The rest is history as they say.

[idonthinksodude]

It was funny how the vanilla rain was anchored to player coordinates as opposed to world coordinates, if the player jumped the origin of the rain would too

[Lotus Victoria]

Holy shit, that looked awesome!

[therealbowser]

Having played in Vanilla when this was active, I can honestly say that I have no idea why it was removed. I can only guess that some players disliked it and Blizzard couldn't be bothered to find a middle ground for those that did like it, instead choosing to all but remove it.

I was not a huge raider in vanilla, but I never once heard of any Zul'Gurub raids being cancelled because of the rain, or even complaining about it. Also, personally I did not experience these massive frame rate drops people are talking about (and my computer was garbage back then) even with weather maxed out, and I had no difficulty in being able to see around me when it did rain. In the video that was linked here, you can see very clearly IMO. The only area that even got close to hampering visibility was Stranglethorn Vale, but even then it wasn't all that bad.

I miss the weather effects, and I certainly haven't forgotten they existed. My two coins.