Originally Posted by
Fleugen
Put simply, because Blizzard isn't trustworthy. If they go back on "Classic will be Classic" and make Classic+, why do we have any reason to believe they'll keep Classic+ as 'in the spirit of' Classic? Why won't they start pruning talents and adding gimmicky, seasonal power bullshit?
There's no reason to believe that. They'd have already lied about Classic being Classic.
They aren't separate, is the problem. I can't say how much (obviously, I don't have numbers) but there are players who play RS3 who also play OSRS. They intertwine in many ways, the same way Classic and Retail now share some of their playerbase.
The problem is, there is a non-insignificant number of players who would not play OSRS if they, for example, tried to deal with the major botting problem the game is facing right now. Because it "wouldn't be in the spirit of OSRS" for them to update their game engine and fix the damn problem. Those players ALSO wouldn't play RS3. Blizzard, who we know could not resist fixing such a problem, would absolutely make sure such a problem GOT fixed - Thus, pissing off the people who want "in the spirit of Classic."
Or, better yet, if they add new content ala Classic+, and it adds power to a spec that didn't exist in Classic. Now we're talking unexplored ground here - Do they balance the new spec to be lower, or higher than the average dps? Do they have to account for if it's a hybrid class? If not, what's stopping them from making changes to say, tank balance, healer mana pools... And at what point do we say "This isn't Classic, none of the classes even resemble what they once were!" Or do they just not add any items ever to make sure class balance doesn't change, and they just add things to kill? Where does "in the spirit of Classic" end and "basically making a new expansion" begin?
There's no good solution in which Classic+ can work. OSRS BARELY works as is, and it's because they can basically time out how long they want it to take to get from level 1 in a skill to 99, everyone can use every weapon/attack type, and that's all. WoW is MUCH more complicated than that.