World of Warcraft Classic

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6.1

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  1. TheKaleidoscope
    Jun 9, 2020
    0
    From what it seems, the people that used to complain about the game not seem as fun as it used to be before, now it all makes sense for all the reasons, things like this were come with by them.

    Looks like growing up sucks for the most part, innit? But that's how life goes, and people eventually change, despite denying it all! I'm going to be honest in this one: People wanted to play    From what it seems, the people that used to complain about the game not seem as fun as it used to be before, now it all makes sense for all the reasons, things like this were come with by them.

    Looks like growing up sucks for the most part, innit?
    But that's how life goes, and people eventually change, despite denying it all!

    I'm going to be honest in this one: People wanted to play like the old days only because of this nostalgia that had been creeping us all, and that's a natural thing to happen.
    The problem is that most of us don't even know that nostalgia is part of what we used to enjoy back in the day and then realise it would not be the same to this,day. Well, for most part yes, but you reckon the game had got better mechanics wise and more or less design wise, especially for the character evolving part.
    And just because Blizzard-Activision's last expansion was considered a flop by the community, that doesnt mean it's not in a worse state than what WoW would've been , had it not changed at all in the first place. It was great back in the day, it was a novelty feeling, something innovative, and then things eventually evolve for the better or worse. As for my 11 year old me who loved this game, would have loved it back in the day, and prolly would have still played it today if I was that age still.
    What people don't understand that only a small fragment of no lifers genuinely emjoyed nonstop grinding with no substance at all, apart from the social one coming from their peers. Guess personally I moved on with life when I quit during Legion, and I can't say that I haven't enjoyed the game, because I have.
    I climbed onto 2's with rating, been a battleground hero with my guildies and had alot of fun wrecking people and still being chill , I became class leader on my warrior in the one of the best guilds on that server, and I have also roleplayed which seemed fun and also been part of terrible drama with no intentions of gettin in whatsoever.    … Expand
  2. mastertigra
    May 4, 2020
    0
    About ten years ago, the "era of remakes" began in the field of films and video games.
    Most of the best sellers have been redone for the worse because of the desire of developers to earn money on the innermost nostalgic emotions of people.
    As for the Blizzard company, its business has been especially bad lately. But the moment came when they realized that it’s not bad to raise their    About ten years ago, the "era of remakes" began in the field of films and video games.
    Most of the best sellers have been redone for the worse because of the desire of developers to earn money on the innermost nostalgic emotions of people.

    As for the Blizzard company, its business has been especially bad lately.
    But the moment came when they realized that it’s not bad to raise their rating (and improve the material component) by releasing a resuscitated version of the well-known 2004 game.

    The audience was ecstatic. They foreshadowed unreal hardcore, social component and other remnants of old games.
    Streamers literally went crazy in the first months after the release of WOW Classic, thereby igniting people's interest.

    But Blizzard did not take into account the fact that the MMO genre is no longer as popular as before, and people who grew up on the Classic WOW have matured. As it turned out, there is no particular hardcore in terms of leveling or raiding.
    Yes, indeed, people enjoyed communicating with each other, but to a greater extent this communication went beyond WOW to third-party voice communication programs.

    All content released during the existence of the "new old WOW Classic" was completed in a couple of days by most guilds. Leveling difficulties were beaten by speedrunners for 1-2 days too.

    Now the game is crowded with sellers of game currency, as well as player buyers who spend days on the battlegrounds or routinely visit morally obsolete raids a couple of times a week.

    There is nothing more to do in this game.
    I myself began to play WOW from the end of Vanilla, so I have something to say about this.    … Expand
  3. RDonnell
    Oct 14, 2021
    0
    A wasted opportunity. Ruined by the lack of region lock. Chinese gold selling and botting action not taken. My grinding was made to look stupid when a bot makes money 24/7. I cant compete with professional gold sellers. And phasing also ruined it. The game is not classic at all i played classic.

    This is a grubby cash grab by a failing company. Go woke go broke.
  4. AntiFTW
    Jun 8, 2020
    1
    The game is being ruined, the same way WoW retail has been. Sellers of Boosts and arrogant kiddies who only want instant gratification are flooding the game more and more.

    Sadly, If you want the original WoW experience, it's too late, this game also has been screwed up by the same kind of players that made people leave Retail and eventually join Classic. Also Blizzard does nothing    The game is being ruined, the same way WoW retail has been. Sellers of Boosts and arrogant kiddies who only want instant gratification are flooding the game more and more.

    Sadly, If you want the original WoW experience, it's too late, this game also has been screwed up by the same kind of players that made people leave Retail and eventually join Classic.

    Also Blizzard does nothing about multiboxers and other kinds of cheaters because it makes them money. They don't care about a good gaming experience anymore like they used to do. They just want to make money without taking into account the experience by the players that actually play the game for the content.

    It saddens me to say, but I think this was my last day I've played WoW, because Blizzard is becoming more like the other gaming studios that do not know how to write good content anymore, like EA studios etc.    … Expand
  5. Sever188896
    Jan 27, 2021
    0
    Игра полностью поломана механики не интересные геймплей затягивается как только может от странной механики того что чтобы сесть на маунта нужно подождать три секунды
  6. Lawc
    Jan 31, 2020
    1
    Wow classic in nothing like Vanille it's worse than Vanilla TBC and WOTLK but better than Cataclysm and beyond. Wow community is so **** elitist selfish even more ninja looters and and guilds that played on classic private servers for years and just finish any new content in one day. I play wow since 2005 i have more fun on bfa than this ****ty wannabe classic wow
  7. houjo2000
    Feb 1, 2020
    2
    What happened?

    All you had to do Blizzard was do nothing at all, and you couldn't even manage that? This game is a disaster- full of exploiting of NEW CHANGES, with bad balance due to NEW CHANGES, and with new bugs due to NEW CHANGES. And that's the most important part of it- Vanilla was NOT a balanced game free of exploits or bugs, but for them to come in, throw a bunch of bad    What happened?

    All you had to do Blizzard was do nothing at all, and you couldn't even manage that?

    This game is a disaster- full of exploiting of NEW CHANGES, with bad balance due to NEW CHANGES, and with new bugs due to NEW CHANGES.

    And that's the most important part of it- Vanilla was NOT a balanced game free of exploits or bugs, but for them to come in, throw a bunch of bad changes into the game, screw the game over with them, and have seemingly no support team fixing things or banning exploiters has absolutely tarnished what could have been a nice nostalgia trip.

    Instead, there's now exploiting guilds with ungodly amounts of black lotus and arcane crystals because they abused layering which Blizz added, there's bugs with sword spec/HoJ creating bonus attacks due to their new batching system which adds artificial lag, and double crits from abilities meant to give only one crit.

    It's an absolute joke, it has the worst version of AV, and most content is balanced up to pre-TBC and thus trivial. Add to that extreme imbalance on pvp servers with all of them being Horde dominated and you get one of the biggest MMO screw ups I've seen since Warhammer.    … Expand
  8. Kzix
    Sep 21, 2020
    0
    Graphics are playstation 1 like, quests are like fetch me 20 wolf. Good now fetch me 30 bandits. Good now fetch me 40 black spiders... after 100h of this crap if you have not given up you are part of the elite of Wow. The people who survived the most boring "game" ever made, the ELITE!
  9. Yaroslav0202
    Mar 3, 2020
    0
    Ребятки! Ловите свой 0/10 за то, что удалили свой продукт из Geforce Now. Больше играть в Ваши продукты я нормально НЕ МОГУ!
  10. howmeafrog
    Aug 27, 2019
    0
    For unfathomable reasons there aren't enough servers to go around so if you get disconnected due to server wonkyness as you well might you can either throw your character in the garbage and literally start over on one of the new servers that were hastily opened (albeit much too late) or literally wait a couple hours in a queue to reconnect.
  11. Lokidos
    Nov 16, 2019
    0
    id come for a good rating but i have to say this community of the game is a dissapointment... ull be getting raped and abused every 5 minutes of questing since phase 2... if u want to give it a try wait for 1 year for it to calm or better go for a private server to be free. 1st month of gameplay was fun and addictive. After 2nd month everything got boring and THE WORST THERE ARE NO PVPid come for a good rating but i have to say this community of the game is a dissapointment... ull be getting raped and abused every 5 minutes of questing since phase 2... if u want to give it a try wait for 1 year for it to calm or better go for a private server to be free. 1st month of gameplay was fun and addictive. After 2nd month everything got boring and THE WORST THERE ARE NO PVP ZONES. The game is on trial its not a full experience.… Expand
  12. LorianPierce
    Sep 11, 2019
    4
    Just a re-release of an outdated mmorpg. Filled with artificial content, including the "classic" grindy go-there kill 5 mobs, get 10 drops, pick this thing type quests. and a stone age combat system for good measure.

    This version of the game has not aged well, its just a nostalgia cash grab for the veteran wow players.
  13. NTRedmage
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    After over a year of waiting and a beta that lasted 6+ months, classic is finally here. However, does it stack up to the original vanilla wow experience or is it a petty cash-grab to prop up the commercial failure that is BFA?

    Almost immediately after I started the game I noticed the entire thing felt off, being a player of vanilla wow myself 15 years ago. Characters leveled up    After over a year of waiting and a beta that lasted 6+ months, classic is finally here. However, does it stack up to the original vanilla wow experience or is it a petty cash-grab to prop up the commercial failure that is BFA?

    Almost immediately after I started the game I noticed the entire thing felt off, being a player of vanilla wow myself 15 years ago. Characters leveled up slightly faster than the original and it wasn't until lev 35 a mere 3 days later that i realized how shallow the experience was compared to the original.

    The largest issue I have is with nearly every skill, mob and price in the game being dead inaccurate. I'll elaborate;

    In vanilla wow many different enemies would hit you with de-buffs that made fighting them a bit more of challenge. For example Skeletal horrors would as their name suggest, fear you for 3 seconds randomly. Warrior mobs would sunder you multiple times, rogue class mobs would stun and gouge you. However, many enemy abilities are flat out missing , have inaccurate values or do them so infrequently that they may as not have them at all. Also, world boss level rare/elites have a finite leashing range, something that was not originally a thing until BC. Mobs even occasionally have the wrong level values, something that should not be.

    Mobs also have less health, armor and damage output overall when compared to original vanilla wow. This makes the game feel more like babies first mmo rather than a challenge like the original. Enemies drop more silver/copper than before and bags that used to be a fairly rare commodity to drop are far more frequent. I seen a couple level 38-47 friends of mine running around with 400+ gold already mainly due to inflated trash and coin drops from mobs compared to the original.

    Player abilities are scaling incorrectly as well, ret paladin seals have a AP to SP component that was not present in vanilla (a ability that was not added until WOTLK)druid spells have incorrect spell coefficients, warriors have wrong threat and damage values for abilities, the list just goes on. Why re-create a vanilla wow experience, but fail at the most basic level of math?

    As far as the engine goes , it seems to work fine though grass matrix dodging out of my way as a move seems to deter its authenticity a tad (not to mention jumping and hill climbing is coded incorrectly compared to the original).

    There also seems to be a few quests missing from the game as well. I noticed wolf kabobs quest was missing as well as a few of the more minor kill quests in the game. The dev team had access to wowwiki, which even has the patch it was originally added in so there is no excuse for the exclusion.

    Lastly I get to the more...political part of the review. The old blizzard that people loved is long gone, it has been a rotting corpse of it's former self for years, replaced with misread metrics and an almost machine like corporate level bile (on par with EA) it cannot shake off. The old guard died and in it's wake is a rotting corpse of excessive politically correct meddling, shallow cash grabs and a completer disconnect with their fans.

    The closing of Nost server 2+ years ago was just the tip of the iceberg. Everything from removing poses in Overwatch , killing Heroes of the Storm in the cradle, censorship in both wow and Hearthstone and finally "Don't you guys have phones!?" have shown the company is not little more than typical establishment level garbage. Trying to please those that will never touch any of their games at the expense of the that still play them.

    If you are an old player returning to try and get up to some vanilla wow shenanigans, don't bother. There are reports on forums of people being banned/suspended for pvp corpse camping, having meme level character names, climbing terrain to troll players in pvp, ninja looting,mpk mob kiting and ...Chunk Norris banter in barrens chat(seriously?). All these things were part of the vanilla experience but are now part of the no fun zone, political correct "everyone is a snowflake" rotting corpse of a company that is blizzard.

    For those that want a real vanilla experience, there are plenty of private servers that are not only more accurate to the original, but also free. Why pay 15$ a month for a pale imitation of what once was when you can get very close to the real thing for free?(and maybe toss those guys a fiver for a pizza or something eh?)

    in conclusion, Classic wow looks like a great idea on the exterior, but is little more than a soulless cash grab to prop up numbers for investors. Hardcore players are much better served by playing literally anywhere else.    … Expand
  14. RebornAleph
    Sep 9, 2019
    1
    There's a reason a lot of things were changed in Burning Crusade and beyond. World of Warcraft Classic shows us exactly why that is.

    Between the slow, boring, story-less levelling process and the abhorrent and ridiculous to-hit stat, I don't know which part of WoW Classic is worse. The world is certainly full of interesting long questlines but the reality is that very few people will    There's a reason a lot of things were changed in Burning Crusade and beyond. World of Warcraft Classic shows us exactly why that is.

    Between the slow, boring, story-less levelling process and the abhorrent and ridiculous to-hit stat, I don't know which part of WoW Classic is worse. The world is certainly full of interesting long questlines but the reality is that very few people will ever bother to do them because of how redundant and boring they become. Raiding is pathetically simple and shows to prove how people were off their meds when they said "vanilla was harder", because it really wasn't.

    Classes aren't well balanced at all and the questing process is so boring and slow that the majority of people are resorting to mass spamming dungeons with the same team compositions, making certain classes completely irrelevant. World PvP is still easy to exploit, even when ganking players over and over I never felt any degree of satisfaction and I bet neither did those I was ganking. There was no feeling of immersion being ganked at low levels myself; it only served to make the already painfully slow game even slower.

    The only real challenge Classic has is how long you're able to last before alt-f4ing into a much better way to spend your time. I guess the saving grace is that players who already sub to the main game can access this thing at no additional cost (for now) but considering there are far better MMORPGs than World of Warcraft in general, that's still not a great use of your money.

    If you want an immersive, detailed and story-driven MMORPG with actually challenging endgame raids, play Final Fantasy XIV instead.

    If you want a grind-heavy game with no story beyond basic world building, that actually rewards players for said grind, play Ragnarok Online.

    If you want a nostalgic, no-compromise, community-heavy legacy MMORPG with a fun story and great endgame content, sub to Final Fantasy 11.

    Lots of people were harping on about how Blizzard was wrong, flexing the large viewing on Twitch, but considering viewer numbers began plummeting only one week later and are (at the time of writing) about the same as League of Legengs, I'll hazard a guess that Blizzard was completely right: You thought you wanted it. But you don't.    … Expand
  15. erazor2019
    Sep 9, 2019
    0
    You'll love this game if you're a masochist.

    *Big Queues to play. *Over crowded with players that hinder questing and farming. *Boring outdated quests, Kill, Travel, Pickup and Escort, that's all. *Long repsawn times for anything. *Long and slow travel times until epic mount. *Painful to wait for players to run to dungeons. *Everything is a chore intentionally. etc etc.    You'll love this game if you're a masochist.

    *Big Queues to play.
    *Over crowded with players that hinder questing and farming.
    *Boring outdated quests, Kill, Travel, Pickup and Escort, that's all.
    *Long repsawn times for anything.
    *Long and slow travel times until epic mount.
    *Painful to wait for players to run to dungeons.
    *Everything is a chore intentionally. etc etc.

    Summary: Old out dated game, for people who like to bore and give themselves virutal chores.

    This game proves how gamers are stupid, they moan about blizzard implementing quality of life things making the game easy, yet if you look on the twitch addon you can see the number of addons people have downloaded to give quality of life improvements to classic.

    Actual fun = you're hyper and excited, with smiles on face. All twitch gamers playing wow look bored and miserable with low energy levels, that = addiction masked as fun. People can't tell the difference, no matter how much in denial they want to be about that fact.

    Just record yourself and see if you're actually having fun or if you have some complusion to compete with others, to ding 60 and get pixels for no purpose besides useless competition.    … Expand
  16. Ghoul611
    Sep 1, 2019
    4
    I don't have the nostalgia for playing vanilla (started in BC) but from what I can tell, all the little QOL changes to minor system like dialog and looting have all gone alongside pretty much all the content that I actually enjoy about the game.Additionally, some of the bad stuff has come back. Does anyone actually enjoy the weapon skills system?? The best thing I could say about this on aI don't have the nostalgia for playing vanilla (started in BC) but from what I can tell, all the little QOL changes to minor system like dialog and looting have all gone alongside pretty much all the content that I actually enjoy about the game.Additionally, some of the bad stuff has come back. Does anyone actually enjoy the weapon skills system?? The best thing I could say about this on a good day is that it is average. Sometimes it is good that things change.… Expand
  17. Nepen1he
    Mar 10, 2022
    0
    games out of politics, juegos fuera de la politica, jogos fora da política
  18. Zusjdi
    Jul 7, 2022
    0
    Horrible game.
    Blizzard is using racism as a way to force you in to a certain faction. We aren't allowed to choose a faction freely. Instead everything in this game is based on racial segregation.
    NO THANKS.
  19. Alvelian
    Dec 16, 2022
    4
    You think you do, but you dont. XD
    Несмотря на то что выпуск классики наделал много шума, игра на мой взгляд безнадежно устарела и выпуск оригинальной классики без графических и геймплейных изменений это бред. Хардкорные гильдии закрывали рейды в первые же дни, в то время как казуальные геймеры страдали над унылой и душной прокачкой которая здесь занимала наверное часов 25 в среднем.
    Я    You think you do, but you dont. XD
    Несмотря на то что выпуск классики наделал много шума, игра на мой взгляд безнадежно устарела и выпуск оригинальной классики без графических и геймплейных изменений это бред. Хардкорные гильдии закрывали рейды в первые же дни, в то время как казуальные геймеры страдали над унылой и душной прокачкой которая здесь занимала наверное часов 25 в среднем.
    Я считаю что классике нужен именно ремастер а не простой перезапуск, нужно исправить все моменты которые явно устарели и не отвечают современным требованиям к играм.    … Expand
  20. Nikolas_super
    Mar 5, 2022
    0
    Поставил плохую оценку, так как разработчики этой игры влезли в политику!
  21. Genstab
    Mar 11, 2022
    0
    я виноват в том что я русский? ну тогда привет вам от детей бомбасса
  22. TergeroN
    Jun 11, 2022
    0
    WoW is dying? Yes, he's dying. And a long time ago. Blizzard just has enough resources to support his agony on artificial life support for many years. Games outside politics

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#50 Best PC Game of 2019
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#63 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019

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Metascore
81

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Shacknews
    Nov 3, 2019
    70
    WoW Classic targets the original WoW player base, the same player base that’s been playing since the game released in 2004, so if you started playing WoW at later expansions, like Cataclysm, or Mist of Pandaria, it may not hit you with the same nostalgia as so many other WoW veterans. I guess one could argue that the difference between WoW Classic and retail is, simply put, accessibility. What takes hours in WoW Classic, can take 20min or less in retail WoW. Which begs the question, does having a more or less accessible game make for a better or worse experience? This is the question I pose to you the reader. Ponder it and let us know what you think in the comments below.
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  2. Meristation
    Oct 17, 2019
    80
    One of the best mmorpg in the world returns with more force than ever. A perfect engineering work getting bringing the game as it was in the past with little change but with graphical improvements. The World of Warcraft we all wanted is here.
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  3. Vandal
    Oct 7, 2019
    85
    WoW is back with the classic experience. It’s hard, it’s rough… and it’s beautiful. A great way to rediscover the most important MMO ever made.
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