I hope you realize most people asking for this are not trolls, just people all with different opinions on how to improve the game ever so slightly to suit them just a little bit better.
I have quite a big group of my old friends and guildies going into Classic when its finally here and all of them have been on private servers etc. All of them want different small QoL things. Mass looting, some changes to specs they want to play (ret pally being actually decent), healers being able to farm as someone already said and even free respecs instead of spending all your gold if you are a tank or a healer on respecs. Just small things to give them a better experience.
Who are you to decide what they can and cannot want and who are you to decide they are trolling or not?
You're just one person just like they are. Their voice deserves to be heared just as much as yours.
Now I personally don't agree with them, I am not a classic community member on private servers because I just disagree with private servers. Which is fine. Now that Blizzard is making it them selfs I will be playing classic but I personally don't want any changes from how it used to be. So no QoL stuff. But thats my personal opinion on the matter. That doesn't make me a troll just like it doesn't make them one.
I believe that the business case for Classic has very little to do with how much money it makes directly. Even if it runs at a loss (which I suspect it will) it still justifies its existence by the good will it buys with players and ensuring that those players stay within the Blizzard stable rather than wander off to try pirate servers list Nostalrius.
Also, Classic might get some old players to come back and try it out, and while they're here get back into BfA.
People need to stop fantasizing that Classic is going to be bigger than WoW proper. Give it six months in and we'll see how many people are still playing it compared to a shiny new expansion. It will be a tiny fraction.
To prove a point, or realize that good will and client fidelity through classic wow release will yield goes in blizzard's benefit for what it will be a small investment, even if it runs at a loss. It's well invested marketing money.
Or do you think he is some sort of cartoon villain pulling the strings just so he can say "i told you so" in the future?
My point has relevance to the OP. It creates a rationale for supporting the dichotomy that Blizzard can be both believe that most people don't actually really want it (or won't once they start playing it) yet still decided to go ahead and implement Classic
Hey I wasn't being hostile. But you sure seem to be!
You claim to know what Classic is going to be like and that others who are asking for QoL changes shouldn't play Classic because it is too hard for them. Right after you find offense at a comment some guy made. I don't need some thin skinned nerd who is only out to take offense at nothing speaking for me. I was there kid. I did Vanilla and I did private servers. Some QoL might be needed.
Your sub does not directly contribute to the development of classic servers. You don't know where your money goes. Your money might go 100% to BFA, 100% to classic, 50/50. Hell, it could go to overwatch development, thats not how it works.
There are people who have fought for this shit for years. This is their thing. You can't just suddenly jump in and say "I want this, I want that" and ruin it for the people who actually fought for it and got what they wanted.
Lets say I ask mom for weeks for that one dish we used to eat all the time. She always says no. For years, she says no.
Then one day she's finally is going to make it. Im so glad. So fucking glad.
This is where you come in. My evil sister. You're a grown girl. You can get your own food if you want. You got drive by mcdonalds, your favorite food, if you want.
But no, you want to eat with us on that day that my favorite meal of all time will be prepared. Just when mom says she's going to make that dish, you spew around what you want added to it and ruin the dish i've longed for, for years.
This weird example I gave is what is going on with people demanding changes to vanilla. Fucking don't. Don't ruin something other people fought for, for years.
If you want changes to vanilla, play retail instead.
Thank you very much.
Its because the opinions of a bunch of drifters does not really matter. This movement has been going on for about 3 years now. The community and Blizzard already have the data, the private server numbers dont lie. People will play 1.12 as it was and the number of players involved was enough to get Blizzard to finally give official legacy servers the go ahead. They gave the Nostalrius team the royal treatment for a reason.
So they know 1.12 works but all of these people who could care less about vanilla have their own unique list of changes. Find two people with the same list, you wont, changes wont make anyone happy and if they lean too close to retail its just going to fragment that community anyway. Blizzard probably does not plan to run two MMOs at once, so once the content gets stale then what? Whats the point of making a ton of changes to a game that is over a decade old thats not supposed to receive updates just so some plebs who dont give a shit one way or another can still quit before level 60? No thanks.
Kind of you to frankly admit how little value you place on a civilised, informed debate, although I am not entirely certain what do you mean by certain words. Like what does having no fixed home or job with having a right to an opinion?
And, well, of course, I could care less because I care. (It is amazing what number of people gets that phrase wrong regularly.)
Also, running two MMOs is exactly what Blizzard is planning, because Classic will be a different game than retail.
Ok why dont we sit here and ponder for the next 10 years why Thrall and Onyxia are not in Mario Kart? WoW classic is vanilla WoW. You want some changes? Ok, well so do I, so does my brother, and his two friends, and those posters on MMOC and the guys on reddit... Yea, lets compare lists and see what sort of unholy peice of shit it turns out to be. This is not legos or a set of play-doh. Its a game and it requires a vision. One you cant achieve when your trying to pander to everyone on earth at once.
I can deal perfectly with just a copy of the old Vanilla and be extremely happy with it, however, this is a discussion and I should be free to post my opinions which I have done so.
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I see what you did there. But no the truth is I would be very happy with just a copy and paste of the original Vanilla. However, since this is a forum and we're having a conversation I am simply stating that if Blizzard is going to make any changes then the changes I listed would be the ones I'd like. Keep in mind they are all very minimal and revolve around QoL changes.