What if Blizzcon releases...

[Robotron]

They'll think releasing legacy servers is them openly admitting the current version of retail WoW is inferior. Too bad, but thank goodness we have Nostrils.

[gotmilk0112]

The only way I'd play a blizzard-released vanilla realm is if the realm was not Blizzlike. (Irony, eh?)

To be specific, I'd join if they had the good sense to keep certain features from the modern iteration of the game. Achievements, the new PVP battlegrounds, rated BGs, guild banks... basically a laundry list of things I believe would make vanilla better.

I'd also be keen on them amping up the difficulty, continuing to work on refining talents, etc. Many significant problems (especially pertaining to talents and skills) were identified during vanilla but ignored until TBC or later expansions, for no other reason than convenience. I see no reason to praise the existence of these these problems -- I see no reason to treat how things were as unalterable scripture because Blizzard didn't get around to fixing it prior to 1.12.

But I also lack the faith in Blizzard to do any of this.

Yeah, I'd love to play a kind of "modified" 1.12, with lots of features from retail. Dual spec, gbank, achievements and non-PvP titles, etc.

I'd also like "fixed" classes...I think. Maybe just stuff like making hybrid DPS raid-viable, and upping the debuff limit to 40-50.

Though at that point, I'd much rather just play TBC, as its class balance and mechanics are far superior to vanilla's.

They'll think releasing legacy servers is them openly admitting the current version of retail WoW is inferior.

Yeah, this.

The closest we're getting in retail is Timewalking stuff, but....it's just not the same, man. Different class balance, different abilities, different specs, etc...that and, all of the timewalking content is faceroll-difficulty, so...yeah.

[boombadill]

You all talk trash, all have forget that Blizzard have made this game, without them you wouldnt play this game, so give them little credit for it , insteed of trash talking them, and many playing privat servers , because its for free, im playing both worlds, retail and privat, and i like both, nice to get back in old expansions and play wow, but also fun playing newer expansion with retail, so you all that trash talking blizzard , you are playing theirs game , but with an older expansion

[Crowder]

While a "revamped" version of vanilla could turn up to be pretty sweet, I highly doubt they would go into the trouble of making a legacy server (like Jagex did with Runescape) since they have other projects that probably more profitable (Hearstone, WoW expacs, Overwatch etc)

[gotmilk0112]

You all talk trash

We're allowed to not like retail.

That's not "trash talk".

[Robotron]

While a "revamped" version of vanilla could turn up to be pretty sweet, I highly doubt they would go into the trouble of making a legacy server (like Jagex did with Runescape) since they have other projects that probably more profitable (Hearstone, WoW expacs, Overwatch etc)

A full legacy server wouldn't be hard. They already have all the data, so they could just implement all major bug fixes into the 1.x patches, then roll them out on a set schedule, starting from launch. Very little development or money required since all the patches and content are there.

[Syphonize]

Funny thing is, a lot of other games have gone this route. A lot of the players who came back for the legacy servers would end up checking out the latest expansions as well. Assuming the cost to set it up and keep it running isn't high, I can't see it being a negative at all.

[Soulxlock]

I think we will rather see a complete relaunch ala WoW 2 than legacy servers. Retail WoW is dead to me, I mean the numbers for health bars and damage are just ridiculous. And from what I hear from friends everyone is just hiding in their garnison and leveling from 1 to max level is almost instant.

I think Blizz will milk the current WoW version as much as possible with new expansions. When subscribers drop to a certain level they will announce a complete relaunch.

[DeeMarie]

If it made them money they'd do it. So I'm guessing losing a chunk of the playerbase back to classic and being unable to sell as many xpacs (probably the biggest source of income), not to mention hiring support for those servers, would hurt their finances.

That's all they care about.

[Arucado]

the only thing i like more in TBC than vanilla are the tree talents. Nothing for the rest