Why did Burning Crusade Classic fail to attract the popularity of vanilla Burning Crusade and/or Classic WoW?
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Why did Burning Crusade Classic fail to attract the popularity of vanilla Burning Crusade and/or Classic WoW?
TBC was just never a good expansion. It has never kept even a single private server decently populated. It is all of the bad things about vanilla, minus all the charm, with additional garbage like attunements and arena added in. Total dogshit.
Only servers I found that were decently populated were fun servers like WowTrance
not only that but the pve content was also lore rape, with illidan and kael thas getting character assassinated in favor of turning them into epic loot pinatas. they had to bring illidan back in legion cos it was such a terrible decision to kill him off as early as tbc lol
People have realized for the second time that the MMOs are the most meaningless waste of time.
"You think you do, but you don't"
Blizzard warned us
Because TBC was the problem which led to the domino effect of every other issue WoW has ever had. All the shit that went wrong in WoW, you can absolutely trace back to BC, and it's even responsible for some of the big industry-sized problems because other companies saw it was successful and followed in it. WoW Classic was just 'what if we could go back to when WoW was more grindy and less hand-holdy and something unique', WoW TBC Classic is just 'what if we could go back to revisit the point where it all went wrong', no shit it didn't do well.
>You now remember that machinima
All i see in the past is Notnyhm
No one with any fricking sense about them is going to give current Blizzard money, especially when there are populated private servers you can play for free.
Nostalgiagays realized their fun was a thing of the past. So they left Classic and didnt come back for TBC Classic
Damn I haven't thought about that machinima in well over a decade. I miss machinima, I can't go back and watch any because fricking hell have times changed, but it was a good time back then. I still remember the song.
People are finally getting smart and not giving Blizzard any money.
Because most players are Wrathtoddlers, Classic WoW got the LE EPIC OLD THING bonus, and TBC is just something inbetween.
In the end it doesn't even matter which one you play, because by this point every server's economy has been run in the ground by chinese goldricers running rampant for years, and the low iq playerbase ensuring it stays a lucrative business, since nobody wants to actually play the game anymore, and doesn't allow anyone to do dungeons or raids anymore unless they loaded up on chink gold and are willing to pay up for boosts and loot.
Meanwhile, Blizzard hasn't been doing shit about it.
>wrath toddlers
Hoping this term is gonna stick to the wall this time?
Classic is easily the worst iteration of the game (aside from WoD, BFA and SL)
You always had homosexuals whinging about <current xpac> and wanting to relive <2 expacs ago>
WoW was always the casual MMO, it put PC gaming into the mainframe and Wrath was by far the most fun the game has ever been
You need to be 18+ to post on this board.
Then get off kid
Because all the vanilla hype rested on the back of a cancerous fanbase consisting of jaded, whiny, 30+ old dudes whose lives peaked (and ended) during that game and they simply cannot accept that the world has moved on from 2005. Most sane and normal people saw the absolute scam and pile of shit that vanilla was and fricked off forever. TBC is just vanilla+.
a shitload of people (myself included) dropped all plans to play it the moment they announced a store mount and level boost. It was just a wakeup call that blizzard wasn't the company that it used to be.
The classic servers were already fricked beyond repair by Chinese farmers so newbies wanting to play TBC were at a huge disadvantage and didn't stick with it.
Blizzard also fricked up the arena ladder which killed a lot of interest in it which led to more raid logging which then led to more people quitting. Not allowing access to SSC and TK at the start was a mistake too because people got bored of only doing Mag, Gruul and Kara. You can finish that up in a single night and then raid log for the rest of the week. If the interest in the expansion dies at the start, it's over. People aren't resubbing to do BT if they didn't do Hyjal because of the attunement gating and how the catchup mechanics suck. Toss in Vashj and Kael filtering shitter guilds and it's the perfect storm.
>Toss in Vashj and Kael filtering shitter guilds
kael was (still is?) straight up bugged. the legendary weapon effects worked half the time.
TBC was fun at the time but it had MAJOR balance and game world problems, the entire expansion just completely shits and farts itself apart the second you apply basic min/maxing and metagaming tactics that are practically ubiquitous in MMO playerbases today. TBC only worked as a continuation of Vanilla and with a playerbase that doesn't know how to play the game, and TBC Classic was neither, you had people playing Classic PURELY because they wanted to prepare for TBC Classic not knowing how fricking badly that was going to ruin the game.
Also anyone with a brain had no faith in Blizzard to deliver a good TBC Classic server after seeing how Classic was being run after only a few months in. And anyone WITHOUT a brain had no faith in TBC Classic after they immediately announced it with boosts, store mounts, and censorship.
I think people underestimate just quite how much the 2 week pre launch and boosting culture cultivated in that 2 week period really shot the mmo aspect in the foot.