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They don't "understands far more". They literally just recreated Vanilla WoW, no understanding or passion needed. It's also completely inapplicable to retail, because the classic team has no content devs. Put the Classic team on retail and you get no expansion because they don't have the ability to actually make one and not remotely enough manpower to get it done in a reasonable timeframe, either.
We need to call a septic truck for this topic.
And I don't know which is worse: the fact people have enough time on their hands to post nonsense like this, or the people who buy into it.
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Once again, since this thread has somehow reached 7 pages without anybody mentioning it: If there were ANY possibility Classic was going to have a major effect on the trajectory of WoW moving forward we would have heard about it at BlizzCon. Yet, Classic didn't even get a panel. Retail is still where Blizzard is focusing its resources, despite what angry, delusional reaction YouTubers want people to think.
The sad thing is, imo, some people are dense enough to believe this drivel.
The Classic team IS THE RETAIL TEAM. This was a PASSION project:
"A passion project is an activity or enterprise that you decide to take on—usually in your spare time"
Login to Classic, look at the credits and google those names. The Classic devs ARE the FUCKING retail devs.
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One of the posts says Diablo 4 is going to be a first person shooter in the Overwatch engine, with classes having Overwatch ultimates. None of that has happened. We haven't had a legit leak in ages now. Next.
classic has proven to me that vanilla wasnt so great because it was good, but because it was the best we had 15 years ago.
it has a endless list of design flaws and the gameplay is very inferior to modern games.
The Classic team is what? A dozen people at most who more like archaeologists than architects?
Shit theory, shit idea.
"The Classic team did so much better. I bet the retail team is nervous about losing their jobs to the Classic team"
The retail team that's also the classic team: ( ° ʖ °) ( ° ʖ ° )
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Also, it's should HAVE. NOT "should of". "Should of" doesn't even make sense. If you think you should own a cat, do you say "I should of a cat" or "I should have a cat"? Do you HAVE cats, or do you OF cats?
I completely diagree with ALL of that.
My Retail guild was dead the moment Classic launched. It still is. There is absolutely no reason to ply Retail right now. What are you supposed to do there? Grind out your 4th lvl70 neck and do Nazjatar quests for the 400th time to unlock the same essence again? No thanks. I would not do that. I AM not doing it. And at least in my b.net contacts people seem to shae this mindset. There are always people online in my classic guild, though. MC group still gets full, and i play on one of the smallest Classic-Realms in the world.
Will people come back for 8.3? Of course. But how long will that last? Raids without Tier-Sets are completely oblivious. Clear them one time, never come back. In Classic you can go and collect Tier-Set....and mindblowingly players actually seem to prefer that over Retail even though the quality of the content is absolute garbarge.
And that Co-Op thing you mentioned...that would mean removing roles from the game and just have people run over the hills alongside each other all the time like in fucking warfronts. You know what my b.net contacts also agree on? That warfronts are one of the smelliest turds ever excreeted upon this game. It's true that most current games throw a co-op mode onto you IN ADDITION to a single-player-campaign. And that's fine. But WoW is crap as a single-player-experience. And always was. Group-Content is where it shines. And that RELIES on roles. I would argue Blizzard should go the complete opposite direction from what you said and RETURN to more group-based content instead of co-op BS like warfronts and Island-Expeditions.
The sad truth is that Classic is a better version of WoW than BFA is. Not because of the content, not even because of the gameplay (BFA is worse than MoP, Cataclysm or Legion...but it's still way better than Classic)...no....Classic is better because it actually is an MMO. Something Retail stopped being some years ago and really has not found a new thing to be just yet. Blizzard tried to "innovate"...but failed miserably. They need to go back. They need to think hard. From what we know about SL so far (no changes to the fundamental class design, no removal of dead specs, no addition of new specs, no major changes to the gearing system, probably no Tier-Sets again) the expansion will only be slightly better than BFA just because it skips the faction-BS.
Will Classic be successful forever? No way. But will players that leave classic actually return to retail as long as retail is what BFA is? I doubt it.
I'm still searching for evidence refuting the claim that HeelvsBabyFace is a clone of Henry VIII.