There's a decent faq right here
I'm definitely doing this. I have a huge nostalgia boner for Elwynn Forest and Westfall vanilla questing, but I don't want to play Classic.
I really would not be surprised if they added this eventually. You'd probably have to lock your character to the old world for levels 1-60 because of quest chains, but I bet a lot of people would love to do it.
True, but if they're really your friends, you can find other ways to keep in touch. Everybody has Discord these days, after all. If they quit talking to you because you're no longer playing the game, then you probably need to reconsider whether they were ever friends to begin with.
and back then you had instant messengers and vent, discord isn't anything new, that's how I still communicate with people I met during vanilla.
but that's the problem. they might hate the game and I'd bet quite a lot actually do, but what's the alternative? drop the game and start another one on your own? drop games completely and suddenly have to void of free time you have to fill somehow? that hit me hard when I dropped it and surprised the fuck out of me, but I doubt lot of people are that self-aware and reflective, and even if they are the question is if they're willing to not cave and try to rationalize the reason they quit in the first place. imo that's probably the reason people go back, because it's simply easier going back to something you know even if it's just to fill the time instead of taking the risk of doing something else, which is worse when you start it with the shortsighted "this isn't WoW" mindset (people are rarely objective), of course nothing else can compare in this case. heck how many people who are willing to try something new and judge it on it's own in general?
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This is the feature that killed Guild Wars 1; turning your alts into AI to grind dungeons solo
Fair enough. Sounds great for something you plan on playing solo/ couple of people anyways.
I think it's a technically impressive thing to do, and even moreso to implement it into the game; turning your characters you've lost interest in or don't play as much into powerhouse NPCs that actually help you clear content is really cool on paper. Unfortunately it's absolutely community-crushing and encourages people to not play together. In an alternate universe there's some implementation of this that actually helps small groups stay together, but in practice it turned the cooler endgame segments into solo farms.
I love how the Blizzard's response to being probed for sexual misconduct is to make their game into an even more bland mess, compared to doing actual work like changing their company culture for the better.View attachment 2540524 View attachment 2540526Vanilla Wall Paintings HD Updated and Desexualized in Patch 9.1.5
Today's Patch 9.1.5 PTR build includes a surprise update to two very obscure paintings from vanilla. While one has had its sexuality toned down, the other painting has been replaced entirely.
The lounging lady could be found in Ravenholdt, while the robed woman's portrait is located in Stormwind's SI:7.
WoW contains a lot of paintings which were added in the original (vanilla) versions of the game, and while some of seem out of place with WoW's fantasy aesthetic, many are actually references to real life works of art. For example, the history behind the lounging lady was broken down in this helpful Reddit comment from 2016:
While the only images changed so far are these two very obscure paintings found in Ravenholdt and Stormwind's SI:7, it would seem that Blizzard is making an attempt to reduce the amount of sexualization within the game, similar to the change to Jaina Proudmoore's hero art in Hearthstone. There aren't a whole lot of pictures like this within the game, so it's unlikely that players would even notice the change if not for datamining, though it does raise questions as to whether other sexualized content such as the demonic Succubus model or Steamy Romance Novels might also be changed at some point. Combined with other changes such as rewriting the infamous dialogue between Garrosh and Sylvanas in Cataclysm, it all points to a slow but gradual shift within WoW.
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This is the feature that killed Guild Wars 1; turning your alts into AI to grind dungeons solo
when even asmongold can see your bullshit and calls you out on it, you think they would atleast try something else like, i dunno, make the games fun to play again?
To be fair they actually have been trying to do that too, mostly by finally taking feedback that was fucking obvious a literal year ago and throwing it into 9.1.5. They are making it really, really quick to change covenants with no penalty, nerfing the shitty M+ affixes no one likes like necrotic, massively pulling back on the AoE caps that everyone hated, pulling back on most of the stupid time wasting and time gating BS that made no one want to play an alt, etcetera.
That might help keep people who still want to play WoW in it's current state where practically the only gameplay is "funnel players to raiding asap". Still doesn't do anything to grow the player base out.
Sure but these are people that needed 7 months to release a raid tier, add a few story quest and dailies to a landmass that was already there and come up with a few balance changes... while they were trapped in their houses with nothing to do in a global pandemic in a state that takes that seriously.
except that's the same shit that always happens in the last patch before the content drought followed by an expansion "omg they finally listened look at all this improvements! the next xpac is gonna be even greater! gonna preorder now!!!!1"
They're getting shit on because people can smell horseshit from a mile away.
Which makes sense in universe because I think that's meant to be Katrana Prestor aka Onyxia, one of SI:7's biggest fuck ups. It would be a nice little reminded to be humble and ever vigilant when you've had a literal Black Dragonflight dragon sitting in your throne room after deposing the king and taking control of half of the nobles.
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