Nostalrius Begins - Quality wow vanilla realm (1.12)

Blizzard recently put up a poll asking people to which bosses they liked most in cata.

now, this may seem like a stretch but to me it isnt because of the timing.

blizzard is trying to gauge people's fondness of the past right now. And they are personally starting out by asking about the expansion when shit started to fall apart.

Blizz is seriously now considering opening up legacy servers but they are first trying to discretely figure out if enough people want them.

Had they put this poll up any other time i wouldnt think about it, but because of the timing i think they are.

ironskillet2 wrote:Blizz is seriously now considering opening up legacy servers but they are first trying to discretely figure out if enough people want them.

Enough people do. They shut down Nost because it had 150k active users, scared of losing money, but somehow making vanilla servers "won't be profitable". Doesn't make sense. Unless they just hate anyone who likes vanilla.

This is a weird poll. Cata is regarded among a large part of the WoW community as the worst X-pack they've released. I certainly give it that distinction. With the raping of the entire world and replacing it with streamlined EZ mode leveling.

Link?

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/200924 ... -4-11-2016

fucking love that nefarian is the winner so far.
keep it up
let that vanilla named boss win the poll!!!

PeaceHammer wrote:This is a weird poll. Cata is regarded among a large part of the WoW community as the worst X-pack they've released. I certainly give it that distinction. With the raping of the entire world and replacing it with streamlined EZ mode leveling.

right but that is the point! if they see people getting even the tiniest bit of excitement about thinking about cata.. the pos that it was.. then they know they can push deeper down the rabbit hole

Disagree that cataclysm is when 'shit started falling apart'

WotLK introduced multiple difficulty raids, raped the tanking model- effectively turning most tanks into 'stand here, push aoe threat button, try not to choke on paint chips', and turned 5 man content into faceroll garbage up until the ICC 5 mans(occulus was never hard people just couldnt adapt)

Basically, WotLK was the begining of easy mode wow and a precursor to LFR and many of the bad things that happened came with Cata. Im not saying WotLK was bad, just that blaming Cata for all of wow's problems might be focusing a little bit too much on jet fuel melting steel beams, and not enough on why/how did someone fly a plane into a building.

As for Blizzard's poll, I dont think its because theyre using it to test the waters of 'do people want old content' but more of 'whats your favorite boss from this old content that everyone hated. Because everyone hated old content. Remember how much you dislike Cata? Thats because old wow sucked, just incase you forgot' Because the current wow audience theyve groomed is simply far more profitable than us.

If you released a cash shop in vanilla/bc people would have boycotted. Now, they can literally sell gold and noone bats an eye.

In vanilla/bc Blizzard scrambled to make content and/or find ways to keep people engaged and playing wow because thats how you retained subs and made profit. Now, you can go a year without any content and people will stay subbed so they can login once a day and click their thing to make alot of gold. And if theyre bored, will probably just buy another blizzard game that is strategically released at the low point of content.

We are the MMO audience WoW was made for. Somewhere along the way, Blizzard's marketting team realized there was a far more stupid and profitable demographic that plays wow, and they didnt need us.

Ziphr wrote:Disagree that cataclysm is when 'shit started falling apart'

WotLK introduced multiple difficulty raids, raped the tanking model- effectively turning most tanks into 'stand here, push aoe threat button, try not to choke on paint chips', and turned 5 man content into faceroll garbage up until the ICC 5 mans(occulus was never hard people just couldnt adapt)

Basically, WotLK was the begining of easy mode wow and a precursor to LFR and many of the bad things that happened came with Cata.

Absolutely true.... WotLK was the beginning of the end...

It won't let me vote because I don't have an active sub.

Cata was THE WORST x pac ever. The one good thing about it was that it got me to give up pve and start pvping. Cata was way worse than MOP. I actually liked MOP a lot, including symbiosis. Legion was fun the first month but now I only log on when my friends want to get drunk in vent lol.