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Talked to a group of old guildies last night who had formed a guild about two years ago. Great players and are top 200-250-ish US consistently while having a pretty minimal raid schedule. But it seems their retail guild is having issues with attendance issues due to burnout from Classic WoW. Half of their officer core would rather play/raid in classic then retail and members are not logging in during their retail raid times causing major attendance issues. And their recruitment officer just told them that he'd rather just play Classic now.
Is this happening to any other retail guilds you're in?
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2019-10-01, 02:19 PM #1Herald of the Titans
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Is Classic negatively affecting your retail raiding guild?
Last edited by Chingylol; 2019-10-01 at 02:23 PM.
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2019-10-01, 02:21 PM #2The One Sane Man
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Yeah - my raiding group was wiped out by Classic, we were almost getting Ashvane heroic down - but then Classic stole a stack of key players.
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
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2019-10-01, 02:23 PM #3Warchief
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I stopped playing retail. My former guild has attendance problems, yeah. Not sure if it's because of Classic.
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2019-10-01, 02:24 PM #4The Insane
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All of my friends who were playing BfA are in classic and not going back lol.
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2019-10-01, 02:26 PM #5The Patient
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Classic is very good filter for casuals and bad players.
The Man in Black: “They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same.”
Jacob: “It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress.”
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2019-10-01, 02:27 PM #6Stood in the Fire
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We only loose one member. We are just a AOTC guild so is not a problem still have like 18-20 player login for the weekly clear in 2 hours with alts. Like 10 people tried classic only like 3 are still playing it. Also a few players subscribed again to play classic and haven't login in retail but we loose them in past tiers.
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2019-10-01, 02:27 PM #7Herald of the Titans
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A guild I joined in Classic came from Retail, they were playing Retail when Classic came out and decided to make the move to Classic. Part of another retail guild joined them as well which has put a damper on the Retail guilds left behind. Seems to me more are coming over but that is just antedotal and not fact, I really do not know for sure but it sure seems to be the case. People are really enjoying themselves in Classic. The PVE server I am on in Classic (Mankrik) is high. The markets of both will sort themselves out.
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2019-10-01, 02:31 PM #8Mechagnome
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My friend list is full of Classic WoW players and just a few of retail ones. Initial launch hype has died away already, so I assume it will be a stable trend from now on.
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2019-10-01, 02:32 PM #9Dreadlord
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Last time checked guild online where i am there was on retail 2 and 30 was on classic online
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2019-10-01, 02:37 PM #10Scarab Lord
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BFA killed my guild in general long before Classic so I can't say Classic was the reason. But I can say that almost everyone on my friends list exclusively plays Classic now with maybe 2 people still on Retail. I myself have logged into BFA once to see the war campaign and immediately logged out with no plans of going back.
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2019-10-01, 02:37 PM #11The Insane
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I too am on Mankirk (Horde), love that server.
Originally Posted by Grogo
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2019-10-01, 02:38 PM #12The One Sane Man
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Indeed - classic is much less about skill, and more about just what to watch on Netflix while you are levelling. Originally Posted by Willhouse
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
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2019-10-01, 02:45 PM #13The One Sane Man
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That's very bizarre - most people generally can't keep laughing, I'm sure it would be bad for you. Originally Posted by Kaito92
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
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2019-10-01, 02:45 PM #14Bloodsail Admiral
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Nope.
Worst thing that has happened is one guy was playing Classic and didn't notice it was raid time so we had to call him out to switch to retail.
Classic gameplay is mostly not raid, so serious raiders will still raid in retail. My bet is most guilds that died due to Classic weren't serious raiding guilds to begin with.
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2019-10-01, 02:47 PM #15The One Sane Man
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A vast majority of raiding guilds aren't serious raiding guilds. Originally Posted by Khallid
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
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2019-10-01, 02:52 PM #16Epic!
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Did you mean retail? You literally have to go out of your way to die while leveling in retail. Originally Posted by schwarzkopf
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2019-10-01, 02:53 PM #17The Insane
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It didn't just killed my raiding guild... it killed my guild. They've all moved over
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2019-10-01, 02:56 PM #18Banned
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Yup, but jokes on you as I had already quit. Wow classic was the final nail. Originally Posted by Chingylol
Either way moon's haunted so won't be my issue for a good while.
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2019-10-01, 02:56 PM #19Blademaster
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Actually funny as hell, stuck on HC and talks about skill LUL Originally Posted by Kaito92
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2019-10-01, 02:58 PM #20Stood in the Fire
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No. Anyone who even mentions missing a raid for classic gets put in pillories and dragged through Orgrimmar while people laugh at them.
