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by JackSlateur6 hours ago |
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upvoteby john_strinlai5 hours ago|
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>And the underlying problem is that newer world of warcraft sucks, no ?

no. retail has more players than classic. they just had a massively successful expansion release.

>So when people ask "give us wow classic", what they really want is "give us a nice version of the game"

no, they want classic. you are re-learning what blizzard finally learned. people literally just wanted classic wow.

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upvoteby JackSlateur5 hours ago|
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So what, they want nostalgy ?
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upvoteby HauntingPin5 hours ago|
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Classic represents a different design philosophy. One that still appeals today. It has nothing to do with nostalgia. Or games like Project Gorgon wouldn't be so appealing to people.
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upvoteby JackSlateur4 hours ago|
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So we are back to what I said earlier :p

People do not want "classic": people want a "good" game that has some specific characteristics

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upvoteby john_strinlai4 hours ago|
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>People do not want "classic": people want a "good" game that has some specific characteristics

as long as those "specific characteristics" are literally and exactly what classic wow is, sure.

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upvoteby bigstrat20033 hours ago|
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Kinda. I think people want "classic WoW" because they aren't able to articulate what, exactly, would need to change with WoW to make them happy again. But they can pretty easily paint to the old version and say "I liked that, bring that back". I think it's plausible that you could (with time and effort) design something that isn't the same as classic WoW while keeping the players happy.
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upvoteby john_strinlai2 hours ago|
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>I think it's plausible that you could (with time and effort) design something that isn't the same as classic WoW while keeping the players happy.

blizzard tried to do this with the retail version for literal years while people kept saying "please, i just want classic wow."

now, if you mean that it is plausible that those same people would play a different non-wow mmorpg that shared some aspects of classic wow, sure. but that is drifting pretty far from my original point.

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