Originally Posted by
Kiea
I don't understand why people are so much against it, in every other game genre, you can play almost whatever version you want (And easily play each expansion).
Lets look at some of blizzard titles.
I can go play Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos whenever I want to, yet Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne is already out?
How about we turn this a bit away from Blizzard, let's look at Counter-strike, now I'm not very into it, I will play some every now and again but that's it.
A lot of people think CS 1,6 is the best version of the game,, and they can play it whenever they want to, because the way server hosting works there is any individual can setup a server, and while that is true in WoW, it's not "allowed" by Blizzard, and if you want to get into one, you run the risk of getting your account stolen, because Blizzard doesn't allow it.
Next point.
Would people play vanilla, TBC, WotLK or Cata servers? Yes, how many? We don't know.
I would personally play through vanilla, I never played it and it would be interesting, same thing with TBC, even though I played the game during TBC, I never reached max level, and at that point I had no clue of what to expect at max level, I didn't even think about it.
Next problem with "legacy realms" is what patch should the game be on? Should it progress linear and then restart over? or should there be a realm dedicated to each patch, and then you realm transfered to get to the next patch, or even jump ahead in patches.
I think it would have to be linear and restart, but should it then be on the same time schedule? There is a lot of logistical problems setting these up from Blizzards PoV, what they should just allow is for people to setup their own servers for ONLY old patches, and provide us with the resources for it, however I have no idea how that would affect them.
At the end of the day, some may be nostalgia, when you compare today with vanilla, today is better in a lot of aspects, but there is also aspects that were better in the past, and not to mention the raiding content is no longer "available", while technicly you could level up to 60, 70 or 80 and go through the content that way, the talents and classes are very different, and generally way more powerful than it was before.