With the recent news of blizzard opening classic servers how do ya'll think this will effect numbers player wise if the games are released in somewhat close proximity of each other? There is a huge demand for classic wow obviously, hell I'm even looking forward to reliving it again.
Could this slightly sway VR to adjust there game play somewhat with the new possible competition? I know there to completely different games but classic did offer much more social aspect back in the day.
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But I digress. By the time Pantheon comes out, WoW Classic will be a shell of launch consisting mostly of hardcore WoWers who would be playing private servers if they didn't launch this money grab.
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I wouldn't worry about it too much, because vanilla content is limited. Even if they did progression, WoW became a very different experience in a hurry. Pantheon will hopefully maintain that more social, cooperative, slower paced design for it's entire lifespan. This is also just one more reason I think Visionary Realms should stick closer to its roots than its branches.
Pantheon will be entirely new in terms of content.
So, if you want a "classic" experience - I very much doubt exhausted content will be able to hold players for long.
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But it will not present anywhere near the level of challenge that EQ posed (which I know from playing both games for years).
I also don't believe WoW classic will present the same level of challenge as Pantheon. Nothing I have ever read about Pantheon suggests that is so. Pantheon is expected to be a much harder game than WoW.
So I don't think WoW Classic will hurt Pantheon.
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I never liked WoW myself, but given the current mmos, it is probably more like something I want to play, but I only played WoW beta, and I don't plan on playing it personally. I will just wait, I am playing Archeage right now, but it is going in a direction I hate, as each patch comes along. IT is just super factions (player nations). I have good gear (8k), but I think it has ruined the game. Anyone that doesn't wish to play in the nations can't do much (You have to play with people that have 3-5k gear scores that don't buff, so you have no chance), the original factions are trivialized imo. They make no pve content for the most part, so it is nation or bust...So I just sit around making gold for probably no reason lol.
I hope they stick to sub game and no p2w shop (think they said no cash shop, but if it will truly be nothing but cosmetic, I can live with that, if pay for convenience is even in, then it may as well be p2w imo, as that's where that usually goes and very badly).
So I am waiting, not sure I want in on alpha/beta stuff, as I don't want to ruin the game, and be playing it for like 6-12 months, and then when it does release it is kind of older and not fresh. Having some input (super minor) in direction, is appealing, as I clearly have things I do not like that make/break a game for me.
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Funny, I don't hear people saying challenge so much with classic wow. They are wanting "the experience". It is like the guy who blogged that vanilla wow wasn't perfect as if that is the big deal with vanilla.
Where I do hear a lot about vanilla wow and challenge are the tedious isn't challenging people. Perhaps you are confusing them?
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I seem to have had a different experience of early WoW than some others. Not trashing it. Just not as enthusiastic I guess.
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That is cool.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
However thinking back,when i first tried Wow i thought the game would never compete versus what was imo a MUCH better identical game>>EQ2,so i guess thinking logically has nothing to do with Blizzard and it's community,they could live on for 20 years as nothing more than pvp servers or end game servers .Oh wait that is exactly what Wow is now,ok then ,so they made more servers for no reason than to do the exact same thing lmao.
Pantheon imo is and will try to create a ROLE playing game community and not some pvp or end game drama.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
It will hopefully be better for gaming in general if more companies get on board with us
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Blizzard brought the Classic Server back because they onw a lot of people like WoW because it's WoW - World of Warcraft - and not something else. Since they can corner the market ono that niche with copyright and their own server, they will do so. You're gonna have to pay a sub to play WoW classic...
So this is bad for any subscription game going after the same market - especially if those peoples' friends do not want to move to that new game and start over... Playing classes, content, and dealing with lore they may not be interested in.
The reason why so many people want WoW classic is the same reason WoW rocketed up the standings back when it was released.