11/14/2018 06:06 PMPosted by ImrathanI like both honestly.And that's great ... for you.However, I would argue that for many of us there is no versus.I do not like Retail and it has nothing to do with Classic coming, and would not be changed if they cancelled Classic. Retail is not the game for me. This isn't a competition for my time, because zero of my time goes to Retail right now. (If anything, it's really WOW: Classic versus every game I've got or could get on Steam - which runs the gamut from horribad to exceptional.)

If Blizzard "wasted" money to appease me, they could easily have a nearly guaranteed $180, maybe even $360, a year for a decade or longer. (One or two accounts, paid as a completely separate subscription, from someone whose only purchases in more than two years have been a charity pet they got no money from and a BlizzCon Virtual Ticket for appeasing me with a demo.)It's cash they won't see otherwise, and if they go too far in the wrong direction, they even lose an MAU permanently, no chance of any recovery.Yes, just one person's impact. Meaningless on its own. But as over a million people …

Given my current meh feeling about playing more than a few months, I'm most likely to go with a orc warlock to do the questing. Bonus to pet, lore I know and understand, healthstone and eventually soulstone, no need for fancy food to keep pets from running away.If, and only if, there's more positive than negatives, I'll go back to my altoholic ways and my original plan of one of each class on each faction (probably make them either way so they have all the rested and mailed prof mats).

11/13/2018 09:25 PMPosted by PlewtoeWhy do people make such a big deal over sharding the STARTING zones for 2 weeks?Might have already been said, but:If no one complained or made a big deal, the Blizzard reaction could easily be "oh, they don't seem to mind it as much as we feared so we'll keep it in". Whether or not change occurs due to the number of people complaining about or criticizing sharding as a solution, it is on record as being something people do not want beyond that very limited field.ALSO, discussing why Blizzard feels sharding is even needed can highlight future situations that…

As far as it being possible, if they set up the accounts the same way they did the demo (which seems likely given their "sub to retail = access to classic" announcement), you'd simply need to pay for two Retail accounts and you've have two Classic accounts you had access to.There have not been any announcements thus far whether Paid Character Transfers will be an option in Classic. So don't bet on that until you know for sure.(Personally, I would have dual-boxed if the sub wasn't for Retail, but as it goes I won't even play until I feel sure I can get a solid month of vanilla-like enjoyment t…

Assuming you're referring to raid guild loot distribution methods:Any system can work IF everyone involved agrees and is ethical.Any system can be undermined, or feel unfair, if some disagree or any person with any power over the loot is unethical.Now, that said, from the various systems I was involved in, my favorite was a combination of Suicide Kings and plain 1-100 rolls. My least favorite was a DKP system with bids. It was too easily manipulated by a few people, and as a guild that had a lot of turnover it made recruiting very hard because "no one" could afford to bid for anything unless…

Because Blizzard doesn't want to pay to use RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine).Because making WOW: Classic look better than WOW: Retail would have repercussions.

I think we're more likely to see the sub requirement completely removed years from now than see Blizzard concede now and let those of us who don't want Retail get away with not paying for Retail.:shrug:I'm making my peace with that, given I didn't even start vanilla on day 1. I started when Naxx was released, so I could wait until they've finished off their "progression" before I even bother to play. As such, I'll probably play only if Blizzard offers more of those "free 7 days" and "welcome back weekends" before the point that I decide I'm willing to spend US$15 or Retail gold.

Depended on the RP server - population, whether it was RP-PvE or RP-PvP, how the community built up.I was on low population RP-PvE realms in vanilla.There were raiding guilds, but competition for server first left a record that was pretty much a horde guild and a couple of alliance guilds. (I didn't raid until BC, so I don't have any idea how many more guilds there were, but Sentinels opened in mid-2006 so it was going to be way behind the curve for vanilla raiding no matter how many people wanted to.)There were a lot more RP guilds, and some very creative writers among them. That's where ou…

I think what amuses me most about this "plan" is two-fold:(1) How many tauren quest through Mulgore completely? I'm pretty sure I ran off into the Barrens to Crossroads as early as I could, then headed over to Durotar.(2) You're putting yourself in a pocket (the digsite has one way out) within a pocket (Mulgore has one way out) and only one obvious graveyard you could appear at, in a zone where higher level horde just has to fly over from Orgrimmar, group up in Thunderbluff without you having a clue, and then come pin you down hard.