Formerly known as Arafal
We will never be slaves!
A crossfitter, a vegan, an atheist, and a vanilla WoW player all walked into a bar. I know because they all told me within 3 minutes.
World of Warcraft: Dying on MMO Champion since 2004
Pre-Alpha WoW tester since 2002.
Being rude and typing in caps doesn't make what you say any more true.
It costs money or time to play live WoW. The fact that it's easy to get gold doesn't change the fact that you have to get gold, and that gold has a real world value as a result of it being able to be exchanged for game time that costs money.
I agree that almost nobody plays vanilla wow just because it's free, but WoD isn't free for anyone, including those who pay with gold. Gold has monetary and time value.
Ditto?
The difference is that despite the lack of proof, we are right and you aren't.
I've never played on nos, and the vanilla server I played on I hated; vanilla WoW sucks balls.
However, he and you are making blatantly irrational posts supported by neither data nor anecdotal evidence. Atleast nostalrius has one of the two.
I take it you follow the rule of law as it is written? Never jaywalked or broke the speeding limit? 95% of the people would be criminals, employing that logic.
They will use any tactic that would bring new life into the game. They will resort to anything, no matter how controversial. THEY ARE OFFERING LEVELED AND GEARED UP CHARACTERS FOR MONEY!!!!! The old team would have never done something as disgusting as this.
You are misconstruing it as such, probably out of some inferiority complex. It is by no means meant as an insult. No more than moba player, or fps player. It's meant to reflect the reality of the game. Your reality.
So you're literally telling me what I'm thinking, as in I'm mistaken about my own feelings. Thanks, Gandalf. I guess.
And of course it doesn't bother you that people are buying leveled up characters. You're an arcade player. You don't care that there are people that can't tell their left hand from their right in a dungeon or LFR. You'll just leave and join a different group automatically. If not even that can make you see what's wrong with this game, then there's no point in taking this further.
Last edited by Legion; 2016-04-10 at 06:40 PM.
You mean like repeating over and over again the costs associated with making official legacy servers, the fact that it will segment a user base, the fact that blizzard will then have to submit to tbc, wotlk, etc servers of different patches?
Yah, I've provided nothing except feelins.
Fucking get real dude.
"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
Yeah, again, I'm happy to let my ignorance show, but how big was the team making WoW back in Vanilla compared to other expansions? I know, obviously, its another reason peope don't want legitimate legacy servers is it would take dev strength away from live; but I am curious how expensive it would be to have a small team churning out content updates to a legacy server, even if they are released as PtP DLCs...
Even if the updates are simple reworks of boss mechanics or "mythic mode" style (i.e. not having to produce new assets or zones). Note: I'm not saying they should do this, but as a counter to the "doing the same stuff over and over" it made me wonder. I mean, they have a team updating Diablo3 so often and drastically that for a one off pay-to-play game I'm curious how that pays for itself, or whether the Diablo team has so much dollar banked from it's original success and the RMAH that its budget is insane and it's still working through that "petty cash"
Also regarding "They'd hve to do TBC Wrath etc." that's kinda a slippery slope, but even if that were true, where would the intrinsic harm be? (Assuming the Vanilla one has already happened). So we have a generation of WoW 12 years in the past aging at the same rate it did previously, as long as it isn't taking players who would prefer to play "live version" away from "live version" then it isn't sincerely fragmenting the playerbase. And even if it were, they are still playing/paying for a BLizzard game so...