All the time, I see people throwing around these bizarre and nonsensical reasons why Classic will "fail" and everyone will quit. You know the ones, "rose tinted glasses", "it's just nostalgia", "you're just trying to relive your childhood" and such. Like....is it impossible to simply enjoy a videogame? Not everything needs to have some deep, psychological ulterior motive behind it.
I'm not "trying to relive my childhood" or any bullshit like that; I didn't even start playing WoW until I was 19. I'm playing Classic because...y'know, it's a fun game and I enjoy it. That's it. No "rose tinted glasses", no "reliving childhood", it's just a fun game that I enjoy and want to play. What's so bad about that?
These kinds of arguments sound even more ridiculous when you apply it to other things:
"Queen's music sucks, you're just nostalgic about it"
"You really don't like Queen, you're just trying to relive your childhood"
"Their music is way worse than modern bands, people only liked it because it was new and there was nothing better"
"Why do you want to listen to Queen again? You already listened to them 15 years ago, it's not going to be any different"
"Everyone is going to stop listening to Queen when they remember how bad the music is"
"Listening to Queen is not going to bring you back to being a child again"
"There's no new albums, you can't listen to the same music forever"
Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? And yet, people spew these same exact arguments against Classic on a daily basis.
Even stranger still is why people shit all over Classic for these reasons, yet "HD remakes" of other videogames get endless praise. You don't see anyone saying "it's just nostalgia, the game sucks, you're just trying to relive your childhood" in response to the Crash/Spyro trilogy HD remakes. So why is Classic any different?
I've never seen so many people getting so irrationally angry over an old game being re-released.