WoW Classic Demo to Be Available During BlizzCon 2018 & By Those with a Virtual Ticket

SBFord · September 2018

World of Warcraft Classic Demo to Be Available During BlizzCon 2018 & By Those with a Virtual Ticket - MMORPG.com

The World of Warcraft team has revealed great news for Classic fans: A demo of the work-in-progress will be available during BlizzCon 2018. Those who purchase a Virtual Ticket will also be able to play the WoW Classic demo through November 8th. The announcement was made during today's BlizzCon 2018 Virtual Ticket presentation by J. Allen Brack and Ion Hazzikostas.

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SBFord · September 2018

* waits for the baited breath crowd *

Galadourn · September 2018

hmm, my guess is (seeing as marketing is always involved in such announcements) that Classic is far more ahead in development than Blizzard wants us to believe.

SBFord · September 2018

Torval said:

SBFord said:

* waits for the baited breath crowd *

Tell me you're in with at least a virtual ticket and will have all the action for us! I don't want to hear it from schlumptoobers or gaseous pundits. I want it straight from the Authority (that's you).

* waits with baited breath *

* damn my predictable breathing *

Yep! I'll have the demo with my VT and will definitely make some kind of video. I've never played Classic so I'm interested.

JeffSpicoli · September 2018

Ion needs to go, Its time for some new blood in WOW. The game has gotten beyond stale

SBFord · September 2018

thunderC said:

Ion needs to go, Its time for some new blood in WOW. The game has gotten beyond stale

But...this is a discussion about Classic, not the live game. o.O He doesn't have anything to do with Classic. I suspect he was there for the live game items players will get with a virtual ticket.

But, in general? I totally agree.

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JeffSpicoli · September 2018

SBFord said:

thunderC said:

Ion needs to go, Its time for some new blood in WOW. The game has gotten beyond stale

But...this is a discussion about Classic, not the live game. o.O He doesn't have anything to do with Classic. I suspect he was there for the live game items players will get with a virtual ticket.

But, in general? I totally agree.

Right but if the current game was good would the fanbase be salivating the way we are to play a version of WOW that over 10 years old. I guess i should have explained myself better

Galadourn · September 2018

a bit off topic, but they both look way too rigid and nervous on camera (Ion more than J.), not the type of guys that would inspire you to try out new game content. I mean they try to appear relaxed but it shows that it's an effort and not coming from inside.

SBFord · September 2018

I wonder, though, how long the Classic crowd will last? For Blizzard's sake, I hope a long while, but it's definitely going to be interesting to watch. I mean, it seems that the prevailing attitude will be that the game will remain static with the patch version they mentioned and that new content will not be added. Once people complete it for the first time (if newbs like me get that far) or even the fifth time -- how long will they want to keep playing something that never changes? I'll be an interested fly on the wall (though I'll surely give it a try).

DiscipledOne · September 2018

I played classic already, it was great, I enjoyed it. Just like when I tell myself Im going to go play some other classic I enjoyed from 2003, I expect it to be the same. Ill hop in for a while, feel the nostalgia and bounce off pretty quick.

Im sure there are those who will stick to it, but Im like 99% sure I wont be one of them. The nostalgia for Vanilla is strong but it had many flaws too...

BFA sure bounced me faster than any expac before it, even faster than WoD and thats saying something.

darkrain21 · September 2018

thunderC said:

SBFord said:

thunderC said:

Ion needs to go, Its time for some new blood in WOW. The game has gotten beyond stale

But...this is a discussion about Classic, not the live game. o.O He doesn't have anything to do with Classic. I suspect he was there for the live game items players will get with a virtual ticket.

But, in general? I totally agree.

Right but if the current game was good would the fanbase be salivating the way we are to play a version of WOW that over 10 years old. I guess i should have explained myself better

A portion of the community is, not the majority. Me as one of the ones who couldn't care if they did classic or not.

Galadourn · September 2018

SBFord said:

I wonder, though, how long the Classic crowd will last? For Blizzard's sake, I hope a long while, but it's definitely going to be interesting to watch. I mean, it seems that the prevailing attitude will be that the game will remain static with the patch version they mentioned and that new content will not be added. Once people complete it for the first time (if newbs like me get that far) or even the fifth time -- how long will they want to keep playing something that never changes? I'll be an interested fly on the wall (though I'll surely give it a try).

We don't know this yet. I mean it will start off as you describe, but what will happen down the road remains yet to be seen.

Albatroes · September 2018

"Now bend over...."

SBFord · September 2018

Galadourn said:

SBFord said:

I wonder, though, how long the Classic crowd will last? For Blizzard's sake, I hope a long while, but it's definitely going to be interesting to watch. I mean, it seems that the prevailing attitude will be that the game will remain static with the patch version they mentioned and that new content will not be added. Once people complete it for the first time (if newbs like me get that far) or even the fifth time -- how long will they want to keep playing something that never changes? I'll be an interested fly on the wall (though I'll surely give it a try).

We don't know this yet. I mean it will start off as you describe, but what will happen down the road remains yet to be seen.

We do know, however, that there will not be any expansion content added. I do believe that they might be adding future patch content from Classic, but I think that that's going to be in the hands of the community and probably depends on how successful Classic is subscription-wise and how long the community sticks around.

pratt12200 · September 2018

Exactly what is there to demo, either it's classic wow, that we all played and loved or it's some bastard form that they are going to try to shove down our throats as being what people asked for me not really. If it doesn't have 40 man raids, shaman and paladins locked to their factions, things such as quivers for hunters, and all the other things that sucked but were vanilla wow then it will blow. Also remember guys, druids don't tank, shaman don't dps, and pandas, monks, dks, worgen, goblins, blood elves, draenai, and demon hunters don't exist. You have to level your weapons and dungeons are actually challenging with no LFG.

Galadourn · September 2018

SBFord said:

Galadourn said:

SBFord said:

I wonder, though, how long the Classic crowd will last? For Blizzard's sake, I hope a long while, but it's definitely going to be interesting to watch. I mean, it seems that the prevailing attitude will be that the game will remain static with the patch version they mentioned and that new content will not be added. Once people complete it for the first time (if newbs like me get that far) or even the fifth time -- how long will they want to keep playing something that never changes? I'll be an interested fly on the wall (though I'll surely give it a try).

We don't know this yet. I mean it will start off as you describe, but what will happen down the road remains yet to be seen.

We do know, however, that there will not be any expansion content added. I do believe that they might be adding future patch content from Classic, but I think that that's going to be in the hands of the community and probably depends on how successful Classic is subscription-wise and how long the community sticks around.

What I mean is (and based on responses to the petition sent to Blizzard 2 years ago) that there is a large portion of the Classic community that would welcome not expansions to the game but additions of content from future expansions trimmed down to Classic content level.

Too ambitious perhaps, but since the community can be really passionate (they did after all manage to replicate the server software to run illegal private classic servers) if Blizzard gives them some leeway with respect to IP restrictions, we could see miracles, like content from TBC and WotLK "imported" to Classic.

darkrain21 · September 2018

SBFord said:

Galadourn said:

SBFord said:

I wonder, though, how long the Classic crowd will last? For Blizzard's sake, I hope a long while, but it's definitely going to be interesting to watch. I mean, it seems that the prevailing attitude will be that the game will remain static with the patch version they mentioned and that new content will not be added. Once people complete it for the first time (if newbs like me get that far) or even the fifth time -- how long will they want to keep playing something that never changes? I'll be an interested fly on the wall (though I'll surely give it a try).

We don't know this yet. I mean it will start off as you describe, but what will happen down the road remains yet to be seen.

We do know, however, that there will not be any expansion content added. I do believe that they might be adding future patch content from Classic, but I think that that's going to be in the hands of the community and probably depends on how successful Classic is subscription-wise and how long the community sticks around.

What is there to add? If they give classic new content then its not classic, and people will accuse them of changing it. If they don't add anything and it stagnates, people will accuse them of not caring. This entire thing reeks of problems down the road.

I do hope it works out, i mean more support for this means a bigger budget for Live meaning cool stuff down the road, maybe even a TBC or Wrath server which i would be more interested in. Time will tell i guess.

Panther2103 · September 2018

SBFord said:

Galadourn said:

SBFord said:

I wonder, though, how long the Classic crowd will last? For Blizzard's sake, I hope a long while, but it's definitely going to be interesting to watch. I mean, it seems that the prevailing attitude will be that the game will remain static with the patch version they mentioned and that new content will not be added. Once people complete it for the first time (if newbs like me get that far) or even the fifth time -- how long will they want to keep playing something that never changes? I'll be an interested fly on the wall (though I'll surely give it a try).

We don't know this yet. I mean it will start off as you describe, but what will happen down the road remains yet to be seen.

We do know, however, that there will not be any expansion content added. I do believe that they might be adding future patch content from Classic, but I think that that's going to be in the hands of the community and probably depends on how successful Classic is subscription-wise and how long the community sticks around.

This is what I'm excited about. This is the Runescape Model. If enough people show interest, for a long enough period of time, they can develop content aside from the actual progression of content. Separate from any expansion that came out, that falls more in line with the classic mentality. Oldschool Runescape is doing better than modern RS in terms of active players, and it develops content outside of the original games content, specifically for Oldschool.

Either way, I'm excited to play it.

Gutlard · September 2018

I'm sure I'll give it a shot for a few months once they have all the bugs worked out.

Gut Out!

deniter · September 2018

SBFord said:

I wonder, though, how long the Classic crowd will last? For Blizzard's sake, I hope a long while, but it's definitely going to be interesting to watch. I mean, it seems that the prevailing attitude will be that the game will remain static with the patch version they mentioned and that new content will not be added. Once people complete it for the first time (if newbs like me get that far) or even the fifth time -- how long will they want to keep playing something that never changes? I'll be an interested fly on the wall (though I'll surely give it a try).

I can't talk for the rest of the crowd but i've been playing vanilla since fall 2010 having only few month breaks every now and then and i've no intention to stop until something better comes out (like Pantheon, and even that is a big maybe), and i'm a player who have never stepped in BWL, AQ or Naxx.

The classic crowd will do exactly the same what retail players are doing - rolling lots of alts. The difference is there's much more content to play through in classic than there is in BfA, or at least it will take much longer in classic.

And since they are two totally different games and have totally different gameplay, i can't see how having finite content is any more problematic than it is in every other expansion sets WoW has had in past years. It takes few months max these days to play through an expansion until you find yourself repeating the same raid over and over again. In Classic that will be several months if not years if you're a super casual gamer.