Is anyone else living in dread of tomorrow? It's like all my hope has vanished and all that's left is a feeling of queasiness. And alcohol.

I played WoW during its beta and when it first came out all the way through the Mists of Pandaria expansion. Also dabbled in Warlords and Legion.

It’s weird that you conflate tedium with fun

Early WoW played very fast and loose with Warcraft lore, setting up and knocking down basically every major character not aligned with one of the player factions by the end of Wrath, likely in part at least because they never expected WoW to last so long so they didn’t think they’d need all this stuff in the future.…

People want to capture their past and put it in a bottle.

The right way to do this is to make progression servers that periodically update.

But the whole argument from so many people in classic servers was “We’re only on private servers because Blizzard won’t let us play Vanilla officially! If Vanilla servers were a thing, we’d pay for them!”

I’ve seen plenty of people who have said they want the classic WoW experience, and mean they want the classic WoW experience.  Any changes means it won’t really be Vanilla.

Imo, for me Vanilla WoW wasn’t the mechanics or difficulty. What Vanilla WoW did for me was give me a vast world with tons of quests but no real overarching story or threat to worry about. It was all about exploration and not being the Grand Pooba of the Horde/Alliance. You were unimportant in a large world. No other…

In the end, this is a win-win for Blizzard. If it succeeds, they make money. If it fails, they get to say “Look, we told you so. Now let us do our jobs.”

I started playing during the Burning Crusade and I'll be damned if every time I go back there I'm not reminded of how awful it is. Modern WoW is better than it's ever been.

I think that a LOT of rose-colored glasses are going to be exploding all over the internet once mass amounts of people start playing it. There will be a few masochistic folks who will love it to death and will be loud, but not enough in number for Blizzard to keep this long term.

Absolutely, but that’s the reason why Classic won’t work for those that have been clamoring for it. We know where the next quests are, we know where Mankrik’s Wife is, we know there’s nothing interesting behind that mountain ridge, that nostalgia’s going to burn out fast...

Nostalgia goggles are hella blinding. Having just unlocked Void Elves and begun the level grind so I can get the heritage armor, you couldn’t pay me to play Vanilla WoW.

Awaiting the inevitable post-launch reaction where people start to ask for the same quality of life improvements as in the current version of the game.

Ok.......*sigh*

Look, I get people being disappointed. I can even understand, to a certain extent, people being angry. No one was expecting, nor did anyone ask for, a Diablo mobile game. I think Blizzard is at times a little full of itself...high on their own supply, if you will. I don’t think they’re “out of touch”,…

Or failing that, some content for Diablo 3.

It’s astounding to me how these nerds are screaming themselves into rage-comas because a phone toy isn’t directly marketed to them.

Holy shit, Gamers are trash.  Just don’t play it if you’re that mad.  Christ...

We saw a similar response when we announced that we were bringing Diablo to console, and we saw a similar response to the announcement of Hearthstone.

Nor should they expect it. I agree it’s a bad idea and not what i want. What will i do with this turn of events? Not play it and maybe check out Path of Exile. This Gamers Rise Up bullshit is just embarrassing. They don’t care how angry you rage on reddit. They care if they don’t make money on it. No amount of reddit…