I Hope You Didn’t Want To Play World Of Warcraft: Classic Today

17 responses to “I Hope You Didn’t Want To Play World Of Warcraft: Classic Today”

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   thatteemo

   August 27, 2019 at 10:39 am

   People wanted that classic experience.

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   namiwakiru

   August 27, 2019 at 11:13 am

   “X needs more servers!”

   Ah memories.

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3. 

   anteaters

   August 27, 2019 at 11:17 am

   Must be so many people scratching their heads at Blizzard.

   Saying nobody wants a classic version of WoW.
   Yes We Do.
   Fine we will give them a classic version but nobody will want to play it.
   1 Hour long queues
   Ok but surely people won’t be watching it
   Ok then.

   Although i wonder how long the nostalgia feel will last.

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   1. 

      jaedee884

      August 27, 2019 at 11:40 am

      I mean hey old school runescape is bigger than the current version of runescape.

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   2. 

      zombiejesus

      August 27, 2019 at 11:53 am

      Don’t forget the novelty and hype factor. Numbers in 3-6 months will be the real measurement of whether it’s what people want.

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         thyco

         August 27, 2019 at 4:42 pm

         only reason why its so big is because BFA has been so extremely shit. just like WoD. people love to forget that blizzard was closing down Pirate Servers left and right and center from vanilla through to WoD and nobody gave a shit about it until WoD due to the server lack of content at the endgame. Then when legion was current people then didnt give a shit about a classic server outside the very small minority that had been asking for one since TBC was announced.

         Now as i said yesterday, i wont be playing classic, but if other people do, then bully for them i hope they enjoy it, but what will be insteresting is seeing how populated the realms will be in month and how populated they will be if the next expansion is on the level of Legion and not WoD/BFA

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      skrybe

      August 27, 2019 at 3:27 pm

      I think your last sentence is the key there. Give it a week, or a month and it’ll be interesting to see what the *active* populations are like on those servers.

      I must say though, you don’t have to go back as far as vanilla to get that stuck waiting experience. When WoD released it was exactly the same. It took me 3 freakin days to get in and play 0_o

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   4. 

      rufati

      August 28, 2019 at 12:13 pm

      I feel like it’s gonna be a ghost town in not too long. Although I really want it to be a success for the sake of getting legacy servers for other expansions.

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      1. 

         djbear

         August 28, 2019 at 6:46 pm

         Nost consistently held its population right up until its closure.

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4. 

   markavian

   August 27, 2019 at 11:23 am

   I would have thought they would have actually upgraded the game from back then to actually be playable (hell if they had actually started the original game with the same systems that is currently in main game use that would have been a good idea.) Nobody has the same time or want to play the same as they did 15 years ago.

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   1. 

      djbear

      August 27, 2019 at 1:59 pm

      You clearly misunderstood what people wanted when they said they want classic wow.

      They want classic wow. Not retail lite.

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5. 

   alexwalker

   August 27, 2019 at 12:05 pm

   Queue update: from 39 minutes to 699 minutes and then down to 37 minutes and up to 307 minutes

   \o/

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      skrybe

      August 27, 2019 at 3:28 pm

      They measure the queue times in Microsoft minutes.

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6. 

   miak

   August 27, 2019 at 12:49 pm

   I haven’t been paying too much attention and was actually told by one of my friends this was coming out NEXT WEEK. I thought I had more time to make up my mind about whether I wanted to give classic a go or not 🙁

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   1. 

      xenoun

      August 27, 2019 at 1:07 pm

      You can still decide next week…the game isn’t going anywhere and on the plus side if you join the queue now you’ll be able to play it by then.

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         miak

         August 27, 2019 at 1:17 pm

         Hah! That’s actually one of the biggest draws for me … a finite amount of content and being able to play at my own pace without having any of my apparent progress wiped or diminished periodically.

         I’ve tried a few times to get back into WoW over the years (stopped playing seriously when Cataclysm came out) but kept losing interest because of the feeling that I’d never catch up with them moving the goal posts all the time, compounded by the fact that I only have a small fraction of the spare time I did back in the days of Vanilla/TBC/WotLK.

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7. 

   xenoun

   August 27, 2019 at 1:08 pm

   I’m dreading what the queue time will be when we hit peak aussie hours after work…think I might duck out early today. My brother already went home “sick”.

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