And the underlying problem is that newer world of warcraft sucks, no ? So when people ask "give us wow classic", what they really want is "give us a nice version of the game"

And the team failed to do that multiple times

Is this wrong ? Probably

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john_strinlai 3 hours ago | parent [-]

>And the underlying problem is that newer world of warcraft sucks, no ?

no. retail has more players than classic. they just had a massively successful expansion release.

>So when people ask "give us wow classic", what they really want is "give us a nice version of the game"

no, they want classic. you are re-learning what blizzard finally learned. people literally just wanted classic wow.

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JackSlateur 3 hours ago | parent [-]

So what, they want nostalgy ?

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HauntingPin 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Classic represents a different design philosophy. One that still appeals today. It has nothing to do with nostalgia. Or games like Project Gorgon wouldn't be so appealing to people.

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JackSlateur 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So we are back to what I said earlier :p

People do not want "classic": people want a "good" game that has some specific characteristics

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john_strinlai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>People do not want "classic": people want a "good" game that has some specific characteristics

as long as those "specific characteristics" are literally and exactly what classic wow is, sure.

	▲	bigstrat2003 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Kinda. I think people want "classic WoW" because they aren't able to articulate what, exactly, would need to change with WoW to make them happy again. But they can pretty easily paint to the old version and say "I liked that, bring that back". I think it's plausible that you could (with time and effort) design something that isn't the same as classic WoW while keeping the players happy.