The second you have legacy realms you will have player complaining about bugs, exploits and class imbalances of earlier versions instead.
And it will be a headache trying to fix them all and then balance the game 5 times in all different versions.
Like many have said, I wouldn't fully convert my account. I like experiencing all of the new content, but would love to have a legit and reliable way of experiencing TBC over again. I'm not going to touch all the servers out there offering the content b/c it's 1) Not 'really' the same and 2) Technically illegal.
I would play characters on a live realm and TBC classic mode, but I don't expect it is ever going to happen. Maybe when WoW has dropped to 1-2 million subscribers they may flip one on to make an extra buck, but I honestly don't see it happening ever unfortunately.
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That would be nice if they have legacy servers running though you have to think about it. It's a business, will they get at least some profit out of it? You can't do things on that big a scale in business regardless of how rich Blizzard is. Now if it was publicly funded through donations I don't think they'd have a problem with it.
Hey everyone
Basically, the current game sucks, the old game sucked too.
So, someone tell me what period of time this game was fun during?
They would do this in a heartbeat if they thought they could bring in more players and make money on it. You can bet they've looked at it, decided they can't and moved on. Something that everyone else should do. It's a silly rationale for not making money if they could. So, they can't.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
Just found this. Blizzard sued a private server host and won $88 million in damages. Interesting tidbit:
That's a lot of interest considering WotLK wasn't released until November 2008. So the people playing on those server were either on vanilla or previous patches of BC.However, the majority of the award was $85.4m in "statutory damages". The court decided to award Blizzard $200 "per act of circumvention" - i.e. for each of Scapegaming's 427,000 users when the community was at its peak in June 2008.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...te-server-case
I would just play what's out there. I've done the time on each expansion already. I'm not really nostalgic in that sense. The only thing I really miss was the good times Currently creating new ones with MoP!
I cried alone every single night. It felt like every day that passed here stole another piece of my real life away. After i cried, I’d go and fight as hard as I could. My only thought was winning, moving forward, and getting stronger. — Asuna Yuuki
You know I actually do hope they will implement some old patch realms, just one of each will do. Just so everyone with false nostalgia can find out that things weren't better and we can finally end this discussion...
Maybe you have that real feeling about it, but the person you responded too(and I agree with him) has a point. It seems to be a habit on every WoW forum to bash the current content(whether it's right or not is a different matter) and praise the old content. I've been back to tbc and wrath on a private server, but the feeling for me was not the same as it was on live back when tbc was current.(this was in cata). Mechanics felt clunky compared to cata(and I dont even want to know how it wuld be compared to MoP AM tanking), and bossmechanics seemed extremely boring and repeating. Overall, the experience I had was less fun than I had on live, so I went back, and with the introduction of MoP I haven't regretted that yet.
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The Dutch were always known as the ones unwilling to listen, I kid, though I've heard your people are very straight and to the point with no icing on top.
Whatever floats your boat, I don't play WoW like I would a mindless FPS such as CoD or ARAM in LoL. I play it for an adventure, sort of like Skyrim I guess and MoP lacks that adventure feel much like Cataclysm.
Hey everyone
I think I did mention it earlier in the thread, but why what about progression realms with a slow release of content?
The vast majority of the vanilla nostalgia boys and girls would most likely stop playing after 1 week when they realize vanilla isn't as cool as they thought it was and then finally quit wow and leave us alone.
Because then they realize that all their emotions about wow over the passed years in fact IS nostalgia and has nothing todo with 'bad game design or panda's'.