Originally Posted by
Dalinos
Classic and Retail have 1 basic difference - player created content.
Classic is an RPG, through and through. You pick up a character and you fulfill that Role. What that Role may be is for you to decide, there is no right or wrong.
What do I mean by Player-Created-Content?
For starters, I'm my guild's Enchanter. That means I get auto-dibs on raid-enchanting recipes, because I am fully active, and guildies come to me for their enchants, so they don't need to pay fees to strangers. I've also farmed any rep required for other relevant recipes. I make my money by chilling in Stormwind, spamming my macro, and making gold from fees. It's not the most efficient way to make gold, but its the most painless - I can chill on Discord with my guildmates, while chatting to players from my SERVER, who I will see the next day again, who I will congratulate on their upgrade. Me socializing with the rest of the server while making money is MY player-created content, which has lead to my server reputation rising, since, after 11 months of playing, everyone (who matters) by now knows "That Moonkin enchanter chilling on the fountain outside the Stormwind Bank".
Want more player-created content? Guild Alliances. We allied ourselves with another guild for over 5 months, having our alt-raids with them, every Wednesday. 2 Raiding guilds, where half the players had alts, banded together so that the alts of the mains could raid together. And it went well. I don't have any alts, but logs were posted, gear was obtained, we partied together in 5mans, I even did Enchants for them free of charge as if they were my proper guildies, since we were allies.
This kind of shit doesn't exist in Retail. Any player-created content gets shut down instantly. That's why the only Player created content you have is....Asmongold's Mount-off.
Enchanters don't need to interact with the rest of the server, they just put things on scrolls and put the scrolls on AH. Some would argue that is a quality of life thing - why spend 2h spamming in the major city when you can simply craft 100 scrolls and dump them on the AH? Because it takes the WORLD out of the World of Warcraft. Classic is a breathing organism, where even the simplest of things (getting water from a Mage) requires human interaction (which in turn increases world-building and world-quality). Retail is a beautifully made lobby, where group-activities are optional, solo content is piss easy and the WORLD has been diminished to 3 basic zones (Boralus/Zul'Dazar, Vale, Uldum).