>As of 12pm PST only 32% of the currently logged in WoW Players were logged into Retail
>This is down from the previous low of 34% earlier this week
I-It's not gonna fall below 30% r-right? Classic is going to die soon and everyone will come back to Retail... right?
Retail is just such a watered down experience.
But now the reverse of what made retail is true: where retail was a product of tons of new players being bring-bys from others, casuals were suddenly a pliable market. But now that all those casuals have played for years, Classic suddenly has a lot of merit because it's a whole new layer of challenges; from skill ranks to talent trees in full, WoW doesn't do nearly as much handholding in virtually any way; from the start you can multi-talent, and right off the bat gathering trades' early nodes dry up quick.
The big problem is... What're they gonna DO if classic goes big?
Alternate timeline expacs?... Just expand the series through some Bronze Dragonbullshit?
Anyway, Retail is just the sifted-through, grated-down version of Classic. It's only natural that Classic would feel like a next step to many, many players.
Wouldn't they keep going until WOLK since that's when WOW was the biggest?
Osrs type community polls I bet
this. imagine being able to have a say in where the game goes instead of having a bunch of watered down hamfisted updates that ruin the overall experience of the game
The success of OSRS is what pushed them to make classic to an extent. I have no doubt they will be doing polls. I am 50-50 whether they will ever progress the classic servers to BC...
i don't really understand why people are calling bfa "retail"
we're not on a private server anymore
classic is retail
this is classic retail
and bfa is bfa
not "retail"
why not have both? tbc servers and classic+ are not mutually exclusive.
Now I'm curious. I'm going to go on a quick safari in retail for a bit.
If blizzard was smart they'd give a few developer liveletters in order to get people hyped about the possibility of classic getting new content, community polls, etc. But this is blizzard and they like to wait way too long, so I expect them to just do nothing until Classic is dead and no one gives a fuck anymore.