People still talk about classic+? Talk about delusional.
I really hope when they do the next season it's "season of something fun that players actually want".
I have to agree with the comment about the segmentation of the community/population of wow. Wow for years had only been what we were given, we were forced to move on each expansion and as we did, the previous expansion faded into obscurity. Sometimes it would lead to farming old content and redoing old content on alts or fresh characthers, but once a new expansion comes out, its always abandoned for the new. No game can last forever with the same content. The probem is, that so many people eventually disliked the direction that wow was going and wanted to go back to those simpler better times of a game when it was new/fresh and vast, where they made those first quests, and new friends and experiences in azeroth that they made private servers. and for years private servers went underground, offering those who knew about them a way to play and enjoy those classic experiences, while everyone else continued on the expansions in retail. So then blizzard finally decided to let everyone experience classic, and they figured why not make a boatload of money while doing it, because if all those people were willing to play on private crappy servers, surely they would come to play an official stable and great version. And for a few years they were right. everyone hailed classic as amazing, and everyone was brought back to those glory days of classic warcraft. But then...it ended. Classic ran into the same issue retail did. content ran out. all content had been solved before. nothing was left for players to do. So they quickly announced TBC classic, and again was hailed as big win, everyone was hyped and enjoyed TBC. but halfway through tbc it felt like it was already on a decline, so they came up with seasons of mastery to try to do something different and was met with some success, but by this point I think most people into classic had either did classic the year before, or were feeling burnout on classic era, and the community was again divided. TBC ended, and wrath was announced. Blizzard i think really thought wrath was going to bring the huge numbers and everyone had been waiting for wrath, this would be the next big moment. But because everyone was either playing classic, retail, SOM etc now we have a 4th version of the game. now only those who really loved wrath and say its the best expansion ever all flocked to it. Lot of people dropped out, unwilling to do another expansion, or simply went on to dragonflight. After shadowlands failures everyoine was desperate for a good retail expansion again. despites its flaws, dragonflight is overall a much better experience than shadowlands so far. So...this leaves us with this next project. They have done so much damage to thier playerbase by trying to bring these classic versions out, which are fine for a time, but really are just temporary. they have been solved before, you are replaying content as it was sure, but literally nothing new added. Its fun if you have never experienced it before, but if you have/did then they offer little other than an alternative to retail or something different. Its clear that the classic era is still immensely popular, but coming out with the same content, slight changes isnt going to make it work. I think its time for classic+ or classic with added content, re-balancing and some quality of life, bring best of both worlds. Its really only way to keep classic going at this point. If you release classic again, seasons of mastery etc, not many will bother doing it all over...again. you asked us to start over again 4 times now. if everything is already solved/done/seen idk how many people are going to be enthusiastic of a fresh grind, only to be stuck at same content wall in a year. even if you speed up the tiers, speed the content up, you still reach the same ending, just faster. We need new classic era content, full on expansion, re-balancing, new raids, new battlegrounds, more crafting more everything within the classic era content. if continue to try to reset the same content over and over, it just will die altogether and classic will be gone forever...again.
Just Two things to go:Release Fresh servers without changes(mb some HCs traits)Make an elaboration with Vanilla+ while everyone playing fresh again
i would love to level on classic again if they smoothed out the *!@#ty stuff like having to constantly eat and drink