Your tears are delicious.
Your tears are delicious.
Highly anecdotal and doesn't actually mean anything at all in long term. But ok, I'll play this game.
When Blizzard launches their service - and takes paid for it - they have customers.
And if you look at this forum, you'll see many threads that are prime examples of what their customers will demand.
Dual classes, QoL changes, progressive servers. They basically want to play Wrath again.
And you know what Blizzard does when their customers whine endlessly? They cave in.
Good bye permanency.
None of the pservers have to care about that because they don't have customers.
I don't think it's a waste at all, it's a win/win situation even if classic fails. So many ppl have wanted vanilla and constantly say how much better it is. If it fails then those ppl will finally shut up, and classic needs to stay as raw as possible b/c any changes can drastically change the experiences and the vanilla cult will blame classic failing b/c of those changes. If it does well, then that's more money for blizzard and could impact future changes to retail. There is a lot to learn from this experiment that will only benefit us in the future.
Warden could easily scan your system for modified pserver clients if it wanted to. But Blizzard doesn't care.
They care about stopping pserver admins, because that infringes on their trademark. Blizzard is the only one who has right to provide World of Warcraft service.
They're not after punishing the the players.
if nothing else it might help inspire dev's of the current game to pick up on the few key elements that made vanilla fun, and try to reincorporate them into the existing game.
Not entirely a waste of time if we can get back to some of the original concepts.
(personally hoping to see them work on server/shard community actually meaning something again, taking steps away from the anonymous que based game we have now.)
I mean I knew you'd bring up anecdotes. What I'm pointing out with my anecdote, is that the comparison just doesn't hold as they function differently (private v. paid). Better comparison is an analysis legacy servers of other popular MMOs and transpose that to WoW.
Sure there is a risk (seen this one coming too, this why my posts are so long usually). There is a risk playing current WoW as well. There is a world of difference in investment risk between the: Illegal operation of a server that can be shutdown whenever, and: A juggernaut like Blizzard making alterations in which my investment is still preserved with possibly some alterations.
I mean MMOs in general are built on the concept of permanency.
It's more likely that it's illegal. I don't know for sure. Also having it installed is not a guarantee of actually playing it. They'd have to prove that too.
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If nothing else I hope the return of classic teaches the developers that having a server community and identity is more important than clicking a button to do anything you want.
The most difficult thing to do is accept that there is nothing wrong with things you don't like and accept that people can like things you don't.
What's illegal? Scanning your system and reporting back to mothership? That's not illegal. You gave your consent to it when you installed WoW.
But yeah, they tend to ban people for running processes only. And I highly doubt they'd ever ban a pserver player. They're not after the players, like I said.
If anything I would expect something like a slow ramping down of these systems or making it far more rewarding to group within your own server to create greater incentives. Similar to how they basically phased flying out of the game by giving it to people at the end of an expansion.
By all means, please stay away from Classic if you don't like it. It will only have a positive effect on the community and the game overall.
But now the biggest part,
is all about the imageand not the art
Patch 1.12, and not one step further!
Scanning files not part of the actual official install? I mean every Vanilla client I installed was a completely separate installation with no access to Blizzard servers enabled. I'm not entirely savvy on this stuff, but that means it has to scan files not part of your current install and that seems...questionable at best.