Yes, and for a hobbyist-work it worked absolutely quite well. Still: that won't work on a real producer. The Old Client can't work on today's npc s well without crashing the game. Multicore-support, DirectX 12 Support, protection against cheater, accessability-support, Voice Chat Support; all of it needs to be included into the old game to work well.
So no, it's not as easy as you think!
It will mirror classic, but pcs are now quite faster than 15 years ago. Also certain things needs to be included like accessability-support and Voice Chat.
So i really think that they try to mirror classic as best as they can, but it will be not completely classic as we saw it with the item support. Items after 1.12 were much stronger than before, especially the pvp-set.
November 23rd ;P
I was really hopeful that july 16th meme was true, at the time it actually seemed completely reasonable but here we are in may and i highly doubt 2.5 months is enough time to beta test/test addons and advertise for the game.
yes, release date please.
While I support them getting it right since this is about branding and they are already taking a risk by competing with today's WoW, a few of the things you listed are 'features' of Vanilla. Mob damage was inconsistent. Pathing was an issue, with hunter pets being hilariously broken in some areas as you mentioned. Bugged quests were not exactly common, but not especially rare either. Named mob spawns were a big problem. I remember putting a pin in a lot of things until the Tuesday reset when things were more likely to work smoothly.
My bet is on the 20th or 27th of august 2019!
I bet few months after 8.2 patch. Its all about subs and available fresh content on retail. 2-3 months after smth like that.
31 or 62 days after 8.2 hits
If Classic doesn't release on June 22nd, I'm not playing it. Sick of Blizzard's lies and deceit! *logs back in to BfA*
Rebuilding the entire game on a new client that does not support old data is a huge task. There are a fuck ton of errors with missing datapaths that the old client and old data handled well, but with old data and new client, there is so much to fix.
On top of that, they have to check nearly every part of the game and reference the original 1.12 client /w old data that the new 8.0 client /w old data transition was correct.
August or September (probably September).
I don't think there is a reason for hype + marketing. This is a word-of-mouth type thing. It can be a quick turn (plus they won't spend much marketing budget on it either)... who knows though.
September 30
Because fuck us, that's why
Summer is still over 6 weeks away. We're 45 days into Spring and 47 days from summer. I wouldn't say being less than halfway is "almost" there. I'd expect an announcement a week or two before summer, for a release date in the middle of summer.
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