Calling it now, classic will have more players than retail at launch.

[Aleksej89]

at launch is really meaningless.

the important question is how many ppl will be playing it 6 months after release.

that will tell blizzard should they further invest into that game "mode", or reduce its server capacity and support down to justify the costs.

[Epileptica]

It might be, but then people will remember how crappy and grindy it actually was and go back to wow retail.

[Deleted]

I think what we are going to see is something like a dual subscription:

You pay 12.99 for either main wow or classic wow and you pay 18.99 for both. Although I wouldn't rule out that they will start with 12.99 for both, so that main wow players will go play classic and classic players might try out main wow.

After that it depends entirely on what blizzard is going to do with the servers. While I am sure that blizzard will release classic as close to classic was as possible I don't see this as viable in the long run.. so they either have to go progressive creating the same issue we have now or go for the old runescape option where they develop new features and content with the classic mindset. Will I mind that? Dunno, depends on how well it goes.

Either way going classic and then sitting on their hands doing nothing will surely not be profitable in the mid-long term.

[Deleted]

I could see it for a short time. A lot of people are in for a harsh reality with Vanilla though, it definitely won't last long if it does.

Just like every other WoW Expansion :-)?
I mean lets look at the facts, each new WoW Expansion does this.

[Morssoe]

Vanilla fanbois drastically overthinking the popularity of a decade and a half old game mode that is so outdated it almost physically hurts.

It is good thing that new wow has evolved to pet battles. "2017 games are best" and even tho blizz gave some graphic updates, it still looks 2004 game.

[Flurryfang]

Ofcourse it will, but that is not what matters. Like with every other WoW expansions, they are not valued about how many players they can attract at launch, but how many players they can keep around and that is what is being put to the question.
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Hell i dislike the idea of Classic rather much, but i will proberly still try it out if there is a low tide of content in BFA. Will i stick around? Probery not, so lets see how it goes.

[Deleted]

Not even a chance lol, and the numbers it does get will plummet when people actually get a chance to play the clusterfuck that is vanilla.

Vanilla was good for its time, but by modern standards it is awful, and the community (which is what people really remember so fondly) isn't going to magically return, namely because people could still make those connections today, they choose to be lazy and not make them though.

People choose to be lazy because the game is giving the option for them to be?
Right? I mean you cant afk sign up or afk in LFR to get loot? So what do you do? You speak with other people so that you can join a grp so that you can get the fcking loot.
Ive played on several private servers and the community is better, because people are forced to connect with others to get progress ingame.

[MasterHamster]

A shit ton of people will play it at launch,
And a shit ton of people will realize nostalgia won't keep them interested.
Many will hate the bare-boned systems, unbalanced classes, and outright broken content in places.

What's left will be the players it was targeted for.

[schwarzkopf]

Vanilla : Content = A
Current : Content = 100*A

Any delusional preference for Vanilla will be quickly squished once the average player logs in and tries to get their toon to level 60.

The only way Classic will have more subs than now is using a TARDIS and travelling 12 years back in time.

[Deleted]

I look forward to the wave of complaints about very slow levelling, mob competition (tapping issues) for quests, slow respawn times, etc. etc. etc. before people even reach level 10...

I look forward to not rolling my face over the keyboard for 2 hours and BAM Im lvl 110 ready to go do some "SERIOUS" raiding :P
But again to each there own satisfaction
Thats the great thing about this, blizzard doing something for two diffrent kinds of people, there are the once called "Curling" children, they can go play the Legion and get all the good stuff, free loot, no need to leave the big cities and so on, and then there are the others who can enjoy vanilla like it use to be.
How can this be such a big problem for people to accept? Not all likes how WoW is played atm.

[Deleted]

Vanilla : Content = A
Current : Content = 100*A

Content is nothing if the game is not fun and lacks proper mechanics. Look at league of legends or counter strike, it has zero content and people keep replaying the same things over and over again because the game is fun.

The same was with vanilla wow, the game was fun, now it's not.

[Deleted]

Many will hate the bare-boned systems, unbalanced classes, and outright broken content in places.

This spells a lot like Legio, Bare-boned system, unbalanced classes? I Mean when did classes ever become balanced. Tell me.

[Dawon]

Not a snowball's chance in hell!

Maybe lots from MMO and such will join there at start but we're the VAST miniorty of the people who play the game.. most subs are pretty silent accounts that just play, not hangs on forum all day.... I'm super insanely sure that the Classic servers will have some 100k's of people the first months to slowly die out .. maybe keeping 50k playing there on regular basis.

[schwarzkopf]

Content is nothing if the game is not fun and lacks proper mechanics.

Indeed - another good reason to avoid Vanilla. Thanks for the addition.

[Slashnox]

The funny thing is everyone is here hyped about Classic WoW like it's the new thing, when it's just a rerelease. Whereas Battle of Azeroth that actually is something new is getting less hype because you can dile it down to another WoD or Legion.

[Deleted]

Vanilla : Content = A
Current : Content = 100*A

Any delusional preference for Vanilla will be quickly squished once the average player logs in and tries to get their toon to level 60.

The only way Classic will have more subs than now is using a TARDIS and travelling 12 years back in time.

Current content is an endless loot give away, that rerolls every few month :P Hows that content..

[Niffo]

Content is nothing if the game is not fun and lacks proper mechanics. Look at league of legends or counter strike, it has zero content and people keep replaying the same things over and over again because the game is fun.

The same was with vanilla wow, the game was fun, now it's not.

Which is subjective. Do you just really argue about the same game? They are both playable when they release so why even try to bring the other down?

[MasterHamster]

This spells a lot like Legio, Bare-boned system, unbalanced classes? I Mean when did classes ever become balanced. Tell me.

Let's not insult both of our intelligences by pretending Classic is comparable to Legion when it comes to balance and ingame systems. Classic balance was complete trash and that is not up for debate, and the systems themselves were almost laughable even compared to BC.

[Deleted]

It will bomb out a year after release mark my words

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Which is subjective.

Classic fanboi's don't understand that word

[Deleted]

Which is subjective. Do you just really argue about the same game? They are both playable when they release so why even try to bring the other down?

Wow of today is not the same game as vanilla Wow