Good idea or bad idea for WoW?

[Drudatz]

Thats why i said when MoP is out and we are done with the expansions, Why not bring the glory back? I mean does blizzard have a clue of how much they actually can earn from this?

WICH GLORY? People speaking about glory have never seen Vanilla or TBC, etc... there was no glory...

[Omgarsh]

I really wonder if people who claim to miss vanilla, TBC etc. actually played the games as anything but the "hero classes" of those periods. Like if you were a Warrior/Rogue in classic, you might miss it because Rogues were retarded easy and overpowered. Warriors were wrecking balls in pvp as soon as they got an epic weapon, and the mandatory class for every group (while tanking probably wasn't fun for everyone, the preferred tanking spec up to about maybe Twin Emps or slightly before in AQ40 was 31 arms/5 fury/15 prot) because they were the only viable tank.

In TBC I remember druids in particular being faceroll retard mode in pvp, although I never played arenas (I never will because small-scale pvp skirmishes are boring imo, while BGs are fun for the large-scale combat/objectives). I remember people whining about warlocks, although I also remember by around CoT Hyjal they were pretty much a boring shadowbolt spam spec.

I can sort of see WotLK nostalgia from a gameplay standpoint. WotLK is when they really introduced ability rotations and having 4-5 buttons to press as any dps/tank class. And it was fun from a casual standpoint, but I can see how it would be too easy for others.

I can also see why some people might not like Cataclysm that much, just because frankly it's not been too fun when it comes to the endgame. All their best work went into the leveling experience.

But anyway, there is no way in hell I would want to go back to vanilla/TBC. My main is a shaman and those might have been their best times, but it wasn't because they were a good class then. It's because every single class was broken and stupid, but shaman was middle of the pack for least broken/stupid.

[Mukki]

Thats why i said when MoP is out and we are done with the expansions, Why not bring the glory back? I mean does blizzard have a clue of how much they actually can earn from this?

This may come as a shock to your brain, but

MoP is not the final expansion pack.

Stop making shit up, even as a troll, that's pathetic.


ON A RELATED THOUGHT:

ITT: People who assume that there's no market for legacy servers because they don't personally like it. That's just as bad as the OP's line of thinking IMO. Obviously private servers wouldn't be so populated if there was no market for it.

When WoW is towards the end of its lifespan and declining (not this sky is falling Cata BS, I mean post-Argus when the sub numbers are low enough to merge realms and such), mark my words, Blizz will introduce a few legacy servers for Vanilla/TBC/Wrath/Cata/MoP/Argus/etc, lol.

[mafiakipas]

The more content, the better it get's. Too many people cling to the past and dont give the coming expansion a chance.
Just wait and see

[mööh]

This again? How many of these threads on this forum and the offical forums do we need to pile through until people understand that blizz wont do this. They have even stated why but I'm to lazy to find it.

[roahn the warlock]

Trollers and haters

Vanilla, Balanced? it was, No class was buffed

Speak for all of us? Nor do i speak for ALL nor do i WISH to speak of all

Maintence: Lost money? err in what way? The maintence will only be longer? Specify this...

think of wow... like guitar hero, you have played right? remember when you first started on easy,and you missed alot of notes, and it felt very fast? remember when you got to expert, and tried a easy? It was so slow to your trained eyes that you shot yourself. Wow is the same way, the game has gotten harder, but it is reaching it's plateu of difficulty. you are just waking up from this very subtle curve that has been happening since BWL

[calmsea]

Your opening post seems to indicate that you think MoP will be the last expansion. I don't think this has ever been said.

[Cipero]

This always makes me wonder, had The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, and the Cataclysm never came to fruition, would people still be playing? Think about it...Vanilla WoW and all of it's "Glory" stretched out over 6 years.

In my opinion, no... WoW would not only be minuscule in comparison to what it is today, but people who played day one would be long gone due to complete and utter boredom.

No matter how nostalgic you are about it, content in any game only has a certain lifespan. I'm not trying to speak for everyone, I'm just stating the truth. Even Everquest, in the many years it has been alive, still upgrades it's game with content.

[roahn the warlock]

This always makes me wonder, had The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King, and the Cataclysm never came to fruition, would people still be playing? Think about it...Vanilla WoW and all of it's "Glory" stretched out over 6 years.

In my opinion, no... WoW would not only be minuscule in comparison to what it is today, but people who played day one would be long gone due to complete and utter boredom.

No matter how nostalgic you are about it, content in any game only has a certain lifespan. I'm not trying to speak for everyone, I'm just stating the truth. Even Everquest, in the many years it has been alive, still upgrades it's game with content.

I think of Wow like a rock band,. There comes a time in every bands life were they need to change their sound to keep going, because eventually their music all sounds the same, at this point they have say 100 (Just a variable) listeners, they change, 50 like it 50 do not, so now they have 75 listeners because 25 people decided they like the new songs, this will go on as you see, there are diminishing returns on this, until the number is lower than their profits. then they use their collected earnings to become producers and make money helping some new band (Or game) make it big

[Kmb2603]

I can sort of see WotLK nostalgia from a gameplay standpoint. WotLK is when they really introduced ability rotations and having 4-5 buttons to press as any dps/tank class. And it was fun from a casual standpoint, but I can see how it would be too easy for others.

did anyone else read this and say wtf?

[Cipero]

I think of Wow like a rock band,. There comes a time in every bands life were they need to change their sound to keep going, because eventually their music all sounds the same, at this point they have say 100 (Just a variable) listeners, they change, 50 like it 50 do not, so now they have 75 listeners because 25 people decided they like the new songs, this will go on as you see, there are diminishing returns on this, until the number is lower than their profits. then they use their collected earnings to become producers and make money helping some new band (Or game) make it big

This is a good analogy. And to add to that analogy, the nostalgia is exactly like music... Someone today can hear a great hit from the 80s that they remember and think 'this song is the best song ever, man i miss the 80s' but what they are forgetting is that when that song first came out it was played out by the radio and everyone got bored with it. It only sounds THAT good now because it's been gone for so long.

Progressing the game is the only way to make the game survive, otherwise it'd be no different then a one time release, much like what goes on in console games.

[reckoner04]

I never played vanilla, but even I have heard more than enough stories of infinite warlock fears, rogues stunlocking from 100% to dead, and overgeared players being able to 2-shot pretty much everyone, to know that I would not want to even touch that game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHDLnUYh6V0

What you are feeling is nostalgia. The game is not new to you any more, and nothing will bring that back other than a totally new game.

Lol the scene around 1:50 with the undead rogue in it is actually pretty funny.

OT: It's a bad idea.

[Hozer]

I believe the blizzard implemented turning off exp for ppl thinking this way.