Vanilla Wow?

PostVanilla Wow? by **Denster** » Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:43 pm

Is there a topic for this?

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Mommy Christmas** » Sun Jul 07, 2019 1:49 pm

I expected some indie hipster shizzle but this is Warcraft, innit?

Er, hello Stephen.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Met** » Sun Jul 07, 2019 2:26 pm

I guess there is now?

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Denster** » Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:11 pm

So I stopped playing wow after the wrath of the Lich King expansion. I'm thinking of jumping back in. Is anyone ejse on here doing so when vanilla launches at the end of August?

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Lagamorph** » Sun Jul 07, 2019 3:38 pm

Nah.

Vanilla WoW isn't the amazing experience people make it out to be. There have been so many QoL improvements since then that make the game drastically more playable.

Hell, during the beta people were reporting bugs and missing features that Blizzard had to explain were like that on purpose because that's how Vanilla WoW was.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **OrangeRKN** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:15 am

Lagamorph wrote:Hell, during the beta people were reporting bugs and missing features that Blizzard had to explain were like that on purpose because that's how Vanilla WoW was.

This is excellent

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Lagamorph** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:23 am

OrangeRKN wrote:
Lagamorph wrote:Hell, during the beta people were reporting bugs and missing features that Blizzard had to explain were like that on purpose because that's how Vanilla WoW was.

This is excellent

World Of Warcraft Classic Beta Players Are Reporting Bugs That Are Actually Just Features From The Past

In response to these false bug reports, Blizzard has released a “not-a-bug list.” This list contains about dozen different things that aren’t broken or wrong, but working exactly how Blizzard wants them too. There is an actual bug list of real problems, but that is very different than the list below.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Dual** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:33 pm

(what's your favourite ice cream?) Vanilla (!?) Wow.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Mafro** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 12:43 pm

Lagamorph wrote:Nah.

Vanilla WoW isn't the amazing experience people make it out to be. There have been so many QoL improvements since then that make the game drastically more playable.

Hell, during the beta people were reporting bugs and missing features that Blizzard had to explain were like that on purpose because that's how Vanilla WoW was.

I take it those people never actually played Vanilla WoW, then?

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Denster** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 2:49 pm

Probably.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Met** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 4:02 pm

Turns out 14 years of quality of life updates make a significant difference, huh? Who'd have guessed?

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Vermilion** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 6:52 pm

I wonder if Leeroy still plays it?

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Saint of Killers** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:09 pm

Keeping the bugs and the not-working-as-intended gooseberry fool is dumb. It's like they're reproducing them out of spite. Slow respawns? Sure. Getting about being a pain the arse? Expected! (Worst thing about QoL improvements were all the ****ing flight masters the game added.) Quest givers with multiple quests behaving in a confusing way when handing in? Dumb. This is Nintendo levels of spite.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Lagamorph** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:36 pm

Mafro wrote:
Lagamorph wrote:Nah.

Vanilla WoW isn't the amazing experience people make it out to be. There have been so many QoL improvements since then that make the game drastically more playable.

Hell, during the beta people were reporting bugs and missing features that Blizzard had to explain were like that on purpose because that's how Vanilla WoW was.

I take it those people never actually played Vanilla WoW, then?

Some of them will have never played it, some of them think they played it but what they actually played were private servers that advertised themselves as classic but had weird mixes of patches and custom improvements along with boosting you immediately to the end game, and some will have played it but given it was about 15-16 years ago they've forgotten just how drastically the game has changed.

The classic enemy respawn rate alone is going to be a massive shock to some people for the early game quests.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Errkal** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 7:52 pm

It was elements of vanilla that people want back, but not the whole thing.

I always wanted the talent tree, pet talent tree, buying ammo, and feeding pets but most of the rest of it can stay gone.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Qikz** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 8:05 pm

Mafro wrote:
Lagamorph wrote:Nah.

Vanilla WoW isn't the amazing experience people make it out to be. There have been so many QoL improvements since then that make the game drastically more playable.

Hell, during the beta people were reporting bugs and missing features that Blizzard had to explain were like that on purpose because that's how Vanilla WoW was.

I take it those people never actually played Vanilla WoW, then?

Main thing to remember is it was 14 years ago. They probably forgot.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Lagamorph** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:07 pm

Saint of Killers wrote:Keeping the bugs and the not-working-as-intended gooseberry fool is dumb. It's like they're reproducing them out of spite. Slow respawns? Sure. Getting about being a pain the arse? Expected! (Worst thing about QoL improvements were all the ****ing flight masters the game added.) Quest givers with multiple quests behaving in a confusing way when handing in? Dumb. This is Nintendo levels of spite.

Errkal wrote:It was elements of vanilla that people want back, but not the whole thing.

I always wanted the talent tree, pet talent tree, buying ammo, and feeding pets but most of the rest of it can stay gone.

Thing is, without all of the bugs and the poor QoL elements there would just be an outcry that it wasn't "Vanilla WoW" at all.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Errkal** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 9:48 pm

Oh I see why they did it, they said they would give wow as it was and they did.

I think what people were asking for was wrong. They wanted certain mechanics back, but instead of asking for those they asked for it all to be back.

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **<]:^D** » Mon Jul 08, 2019 10:37 pm

i played vanilla WoW beta, im og 8-)

PostRe: Vanilla Wow? by **Mafro** » Mon Aug 26, 2019 11:38 pm

This is out now. Anyone playing it?

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