Do you think Classic will effect Expansion 9

[Soluna]

How many times do we have to tell you guys, classic is not gonna affect expansion 9 at all. That is already in development, the roadmap for that patch has already been finished when BFA launched.

Now, expansion 10 on the other hand, that might see some more RPG elements should Classic do really good

Expansion 9 is 10.0, Expansion 8 is 9.0, Expansion 7 is bfa (8.0), try to use your head before questioning the title dude. Vanilla wasn't an expansion. What did it expand upon? Thin air? Expansion 9 could be influenced by Classic, as Blizz is focusing on BfA/expansion 8 development.

[Lurker1]

Nope and if they do ill go to a different MMorpg for my fix then.

[huth]

Expansion 9 is 10.0, Expansion 8 is 9.0, Expansion 7 is bfa (8.0), try to use your head before questioning the title dude. Vanilla wasn't an expansion. What did it expand upon? Thin air? Expansion 9 could be influenced by Classic, as Blizz is focusing on BfA/expansion 8 development.

It's confusing, though. Expansion 9.0 would be Expansion 8. Besides, there's a good chance they already do have a roadmap for patch 10.0, even if it is rather preliminary and subject to frequent change.

[Soluna]

It's confusing, though. Expansion 9.0 would be Expansion 8. Besides, there's a good chance they already do have a roadmap for patch 10.0, even if it is rather preliminary and subject to frequent change.

You said it yourself, Expansion 9, 10.0 may have a roadmap, and it is subject to frequent change. And it will change if they see profit in an alternate path of expansion development.

Anyway, my point was that this guy 'Trihard', made a retarded comment, and I wanted to correct him, cause he is passive aggressive to the OP for no reason, other than his comprehension skills.

[Frolk]

i fucking hope not.

i don't want more of that shit gameplay in wow, bfa was bad enough with its slow shit.

now, some wotlk/wod/legion gameplay, fast paced action gameplay, that's what i want.

Dosnt have to be slower or faster, can be more "niche" skills to fill out our actionbars a bit, with stuff like dampen magic and those sort of skills to make it feel BIT more like an RPG

[Maudib]

It absolutely SHOULD... but no way Ion is going to concede that the passionate developers from 15 years ago had better ideas than his failing attempts to bring WoW the next best thing in MMOs. And now with Blizzard moving toward Mobile games... I'm not sure how many more expansions there are left for WoW.

[Fixxit the Gnome]

Maybe.

If certain aspects of Classic prove to be popular, they might affect the future development of Retail.

The only thing I really miss though is class trainers being useful.

[Destinas]

Not in any major ways. Classic is meant to be its own thing for those that want it, while story and gameplay evolve with the rest of WoW.

I would imagine, however, that they could add in some spells again, like Eyes of the Beast. It's something that people have wanted since it was removed in Cataclysm, which will be available on Classic again, and has no bearing on gameplay at all. Other minor things like that could go over to the live servers, but I wouldn't imagine major overhauls in philosophy and design, considering how separated the two game modes will be anyway.

[Tiwack]

They've already stated the Classic project won't have any impact on the running of retail and its development. It's two different games to them so why would it be effected? 8.0 already shifted the design philosophy, next big one will likely continue in much the same vain.

[Cockus Maximus]

Simple thought experiment. Do you think the potential popularity of Classic WoW will affect the game direction of expansions to come. Of course this is a loaded subject. This could be everything to making leveling more difficult to re-arranging the loot structure. The ultimately question however, is do you think retail might try to emulate Vanilla again at some point?

Sure hope so. I've said this before and I'll say it again: the best things about Classic are 1) that it will hopefully serve as a learning experience for the devs and 2) it will give them enough time to delay the next expansion until they can release it in a near perfect state. Once they can clearly define what the expansions did right and what they did wrong, they should be able to create the next expansion as the best of both worlds.

[Nzx]

Kinda why simulators exist.

If only you could understand and apply your own words to yourself, rather than projecting so heavily on others. Perfect signature.

[Stormspellz]

It will def effect the next expansion, but seeing as the next expansion is already well into development, it likely to more influence on 9.x then expansion launch.

[Argorwal]

The only influence I want from classic is a bit more niche/situational abilities and removal of warforge/titanforging.

[Afrospinach]

If only you could understand and apply your own words to yourself, rather than projecting so heavily on others. Perfect signature.

Hahaha. Is this what Classic fans actually believe? Do you all run around with totally random stats and just blindly equip the highest ilvl piece and think you're done with the game?

I imagine you probably have no idea how to play it either.

If you have nothing to say, why post?

[Nerevar]

Yes, it will.

[Nzx]

If you have nothing to say, why post?

Because I like pointing out the obvious failings of people who don't understand a game they like to pretend is "easy". It's like you're so desperate to be part of the "cool" crowd that you parrot these talking points about how bad BFA is and how good classic is going to be without having any idea whether they're true or not.

[Kanadei]

I think it's foolish to think it won't influence it, whether it succeeds or fails they will take lessons from it to implement.

It's like asking "do you think Game of Thrones [the tv show] will affect A Song of Ice and Fire [the book series]?", of course it will. They are inextricably linked.

[kamuimac]

Simple thought experiment. Do you think the potential popularity of Classic WoW will affect the game direction of expansions to come. Of course this is a loaded subject. This could be everything to making leveling more difficult to re-arranging the loot structure. The ultimately question however, is do you think retail might try to emulate Vanilla again at some point?

it will have 0 effect.

you can already see the disillusion of most people with "is that really it"

people get and will get wrecked hard for depending on nostalgia so hard.

yes classic servers will have their own tiny 10-30k subs crowd after initial 2 months but for 99,9% of current age gamers its unplayable unfun mess.

that said its good its coming out so we can finally destroy the rose tinted nostalgia glasses that forums were using for too long

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I think it's foolish to think it won't influence it, whether it succeeds or fails they will take lessons from it to implement.

It's like asking "do you think Game of Thrones [the tv show] will affect A Song of Ice and Fire [the book series]?", of course it will. They are inextricably linked.

its pretty man towards classic if you compare it to dreadfull season 8 ^^

i mean i think that classic is garbage but i would never say its as trash as S8 of GoT.

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That has nothing to do with it.

Look how retail has an embarrassing resemblance to Diablo 3's reward structure. That is all.

Without going on a rant too much, just for an example, in classic when you get a new weapon it is a big deal. I got a no less than 30 ilvl upgrade on retail in the form of a weapon and I could not notice the difference. Basically just as much a stat stick as any other piece of armor. Just one example of how "disconnected" the game feels right now, where it is more about just funneling as many meaningless loot opportunities past your character(you can get particular about secondary stats if you want but the only thing you really need to look at these days is ilvl as they dwarf everything else in importance) in the hopes of a titanforge(good roll). Sounds like Diablo 3.

I did not know the D3 team worked on wow, get it now?

I think it is almost a certainty that Classic will be a revelation, big or small, for the current design team.

not trying to be mean but you must be really and i mean really bad at the game if you dont see huge difference in performance with 30 itlv weapon upgrade .

[Kanadei]

its pretty man towards classic if you compare it to dreadfull season 8 ^^

i mean i think that classic is garbage but i would never say its as trash as S8 of GoT.

They are both divisive. I don't share your opinion about classic but I think it's fairly clear to see that if Classic succeeds some elements may be incorporated to retail and if it fails then retail knows what to avoid.