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Would you play on a vanilla server ?
Kaynos1972
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I havent played WOW in over 2 years, i'm not even going to buy the panda expansion. However if Blizzard would release vanilla server or 2 i think it will be a huge sucess. I remember how fun the game was back in Vanilla. So i'm asking the question, would you play on a vanilla server where the top level is 60 ?
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A straight up no, being stuck in a game that has no progression of future content whatsoever, that sounds like hell imo.
Yes.
I wouldn't be super excited playing vanilla, but since there's nothing better to play i'd probably play it for a while.
And at the posters above: there may be less content in vanilla than there is in Cata + MoP, but it most definitely lasts longer than those two combined.
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This would be the only way I would come back to wow, but ... sub. should only be $5/month,
NO server transfer's, right up to pre-BC with some good World boss's available too.!!
Can only group within the server itself as well so- limited lfg !! I'd play again!
id love a new server w dungeon finder disabled for the first 2 months
or at bare minimum -- not cross server
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It would be a lovely nostalgic walkthrough, but what strength of Vanilla are we talking about as i would imagine that there are varying opinions on that as well? Are we talking about Pre-honor system and BG's or something a little more watered down with BG's, some additional instances etc or go the whole hog and set it at just pre-BC?
My point is that there is no way that Blizzard could win with this either because even if they do introduce these they still won't be able to please everyone.
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No.
I played this game for a bit over five years. Loved it then, but burnt out on it now to the point where I simply can't imagine what it would take to make me want to play it again. The last couple of times that I resubbed, I ended up playing less than an hour out of the entire paid month.
Seeing as how i found vanilla to be a boring and way to time consuming setting and that it drow me away, i'd say No.
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Some things were better in Vanilla!
I'd prefer the following: http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/365060/An-Opinion-Alternate-WoW.html
Vanilla WoW... needed more content. BC needed more content. LK needed more content. Cata needed more content. Additional features are nifty as well...
...however, Vanilla didn't need to lose all that it did going into BC. BC didn't need to lose all that it did going into LK. LK didn't need to lose all that it did into Cata. Cata didn't need to lose all that it did going into MoP.
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I won't talk about another companies success, so much so that they opened a 2nd vanilla server...
I will say yes to playing on a vanilla WoW server, no transfers and time locked, where once a certain percentage of the server reached max level, the server votes on opening the next expansion. As a vanilla server though, it would have to be done right, with none of the shortcuts of the current game with all the rules in place of the original.
If they'd restart fresh at BC, dropped Lich King, Cata, and March of the Pandas and not make it just about gear grinding raids/instances arena and rep, and treat the whole game equally, with more horizontal advancement instead of 100% vertical, Id resubscribe in a second.
I have zero desire to play MoP, or to even try it out for free. And if I know Blizz expect the Monk class to be so over powered and unbalanced for at least the first 6 months, just like the DK was for Lich.
I played Cata for about 7-8 months and I have to admit the last two of that was just going thru the motions. I had more fun doing the mini-professions/crafting than I did running dungeons/instances.
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I have played on a vanilla server, forgot which one exactly, but it did have accelerated leveling.
My opinion:
Well...
I like the fact that there are weather cycles in various areas, which you would think should be in the current WoW, but for some reason seems to have vanished.
I like the fact that Orgrimmar actually looks like it's in nighttime and not bathed in artificial lighting.
I liked that gear could remain relevant longer, particularly rares.
Otherwise, I don't really find it any more interesting than the current game, primarily because I didn't like how my Paladin was restricted to Healing for dungeons and raids. That was a real downer for me.
How about a vanilla server with some territory control, item decay, AND player looting? I would play that forever.
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Yes,
Note:
You can't get an accurate vote here on mmorpg.com because at least one million or more pissed off players don't even look back anymore, and so many of them don't even look at the WoW forums here.
Understand that if Blizzard ever did release a vanilla WoW server, you know they would fix the bugs and add anything that would be of interest to the players.........The shallowness of people thinking they would release a broken game is just ridiculous.
MY guess :
We will see Vanilla WoW servers when the cash cow of all the expansion's lose steam. So were looking at at least a year, but it will come !!
I'd have to say no. The WOW I want to play would have evolved vanilla WOW into one with more emphasis on open world PVP, with strong rewards for it and probably have no BG's to speak of. In fact, I'd favor a FFA ruleset server on top of the original ruleset and there's no way that's ever going to happen.
I was ready for WOW to change when BC came out, just not in the direction it took so I can see no reason to return to the original game, re-running MC for umpteenth time really isn't my dream.
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