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​W0W Classic - The homesickness is blinding you

Apr-09-2019 PST
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The homesickness is blinding you - it wasn't that good. But, this time, it will be even better! So, in this post, I will analyze my acquaintance from 4 things:


1, W0W Boilerplate I played aback then.

2, W0W clandestine server, which I played during a aeon of banking problems.

3, W0W clandestine server, which I played in 2016-2017, due to the abridgement of official Classic announcement.

4, Accession game, that just had its accelerating re-release, but I'm new to it. It's Aristocrat of the Rings Online.


So, actuality is my compassionate on what affectionate of humans play those kinds of games:


1, W0W boilerplate aback afresh - humans who were in actuality new into MMORPG and RPGs, and maybe even into gaming at all.


2, Clandestine server aback afresh - humans who pirated W0W because they didn't acquire their own money (kids), or their abridged wasn't that abysmal (India/Russia).


3, Clandestine server in 2016/2017 - humans who basic to play vanilla, which wasn't accessible on official server - but that's not all! There were aswell people, who played a boilerplate clandestine server, because they couldn't allow the aboriginal W0W! So, new faces.


4, Accession bold - Aristocrat of the Rings Online - humans who admired the bold aback then, and humans cat-and-mouse for Classic W0W. That bold seems to acquire a accepted community.


Now, my experiences:


1, Aback then, I was arena the game, I was new, and I had no clue about what to do. I bethink that abracadabra and activity of analysis and discovery. But, that could be just dark anamnesis - and also, it is absurd to charm that. Though, I aswell bethink adequate the game, even afterwards exploring it. In retail, I accumulate accepting new agreeable to explore, and I don't even accomplishment it, because it's boring.


2, I anamnesis humans arena clandestine server, all focused on their items, etc. There was an attitude - if something doesn't accord you epics, it's worthless. The bold wasn't declared to accord you fun, but to accord you epics. That's why some servers formed for college bead ante - they gave added epics. All carefully fun-related activities, such as events, were in actuality asleep - even admitting the server had 20k online. Analyze that to vanilla's estimated 2k, breadth the association was so alive...


3, Afterwards accepting apathetic of W0W on retail, I recalled how I enjoyed it aback then. Assumption it was just nostalgia, I just got apathetic of W0W - but I was apathetic anyway, so I approved a clandestine server. And... it did hit the spot! Yes, the homesickness was blinding a little bit, but the bold was in actuality as acceptable as I remember! Well, honestly... it was even better! The association on that clandestine server, was abundant bigger than the boilerplate association aback then. I acquire no abstraction why. There was a lot beneath of "google it" attitude and "gearscore backpack me I'm leader" attitude, as able-bodied as beneath "your board PC" attitude (I in actuality got into PUG, even afterwards declaring that I'm antithesis astrologer and I acquire 600ms). I guess, the QoL-hungry humans acquire begin their ascendancy on retail, while the accomplished people, are now focused on Classic. Yes! We are chargeless from the QoL-wanting people! Aback then, we had humans allurement to accomplish W0W free-to-play, or to accomplish accepting into dungeons and raids easier - now, we are chargeless of them! That means, we will not see their acknowledgment anymore on Classic! Alcove Finder was added due to whining that it's too harder - now, there will be no such whining! Even if W0W Classic follows a accustomed aisle of MMORPG development, there will be no Cataclysm and no Alcove Finder! And yes, there were tourists on that clandestine server, too - that gnomes who never accomplish it accomplished their aboriginal Deadmines. There are a few personality-checking mechancis, that will accomplish all the QoL humans leave Classic anon enough. Aboriginal - the aboriginal dungeon. Additional - endgame dungeons. Third, the final one - endgame raids. If anyone makes it through a raid, acknowledged or not, and keeps playing, they're accessible for Vanilla, and will accord properly.


4, Then, I've abutting a re-release of old Aristocrat of the Rings Online content. Even admitting it's not Classic, and runs on latest patch, just with agreeable blocked - it just got buffed, so it's not that dumb. But, I've never played that bold - and I'm befitting to the Classic spirit, so I don't attending up aggregate on google, youtube, etc. So, now for the accurate experience: I acquire no abstraction what to do. I acquire no abstraction whether I should absorb my money on that, or save it. I apperceive I may affliction either decision. And, if I accomplish the amiss one, I affliction it later. That reminds me of my gameplay of W0W, aback afresh - traveling to a dungeon, afterwards acrimonious up quests, afresh accepting to that quests, and accepting to do the aforementioned alcove again, and regretting... or, the affliction affair I've anytime done - accomplishing AQ40 afterwards some quest, that would accord me burning upgrade. I had to do it afresh next week, to get the upgrade. And, I'm now activity the aforementioned in LOTRO - even admitting my MMO accurate apperception has developed a lot, and now I'm in actuality artful things actuality and there, I still don't apperceive all - should I use that accessible now, or save it for later? Oh shit, it was advantageous abandoned at low levels. And such.


5, So, now, if Classic comes. I'll just play as I acclimated to... but I will absolute the old mistakes. I will not get into a dungeon, afterwards accepting all its quests. I will not save my akin 1 scrolls of armor for the darkest hour, until I'm akin 40+ and the scrolls do annihilation to me. Judging from my contempo acquaintance on Boilerplate clandestine servers, I adopt that array of gameplay. Now, I'll accomplish it right. I will not be abashed of online socialization - I will alpha with dungeons adapted away, W0W classic gold with Deadmines. Maybe it will be a lot easier - but I'll be done with what I was cerebration of aback 2005...


So, even if you anticipate you don't - you DO!