World of Warcraft

“it removes the difference - if everything always scales to you, there's no real reason to improve”

“afaik from watching a couple of wowc videos, a part of the appeal was the rerelease of the following expansions”

“The revitalization of old games via the "classic" release model has demonstrated that simply undoing the MBA damage is an extremely viable option.”

“the various versions of WoW im self hosting have really good singleplayer support”

“WoW forever is also looking compelling with its PvP ruleset and unified realm architecture”

“WoW guildmasters received valuable organizational management skills”

“chatting with your guild members in World of Warcraft is social media”

“I regret the time I spent playing WoW, but it was category defining and a cultural phenomenon.”

“WoW puts 95% of the game at max level requiring players to invest dozens of hours just for table stakes”

“The payoff of working on a dungeon for a month and finally clearing a boss was so satisfying.”

“the gameplay was legitimately good. PvP was compelling, raiding was compelling”

“For many, it's an online third space. Cooperating to overcome shared challenges reinforces social ties.”

“Imagine creating something people still like to pay for after over 20 years. Incredible!”

“WoW has become quite soulless after the changes where everyone gets the same end game equipment but you have to grind upgrade currency to improve it.”

“WoW was a fabulous success from day 1 and it was a live service game.”

“Installing it was a pain in the ass but there is something nice about that whole ritual”

“There are WoW Classic server up right now, with people playing it.”

“The world is so well crafted, the lore, the art design, it is just fantastic.”

“People say they fired the entire QA department since a few years back and since then the quality has just gone down.”

“its biggest problem is how hard it's locked itself into the idea of what an expansion should be”

“WoW is still the most played MMO on the planet, even after 20 years.”

“Blizzard's actual approach is much more sane: older content comes back in controlled ways.”

“Turtle WoW attracts players who could be paying subscription to Blizzard and play WoW Classic.”

“Helped a lot during the few years of physical separation to stay in touch”

“World of Warcraft has been super successful in its space, and yet Blizzard has failed to make an actual sequel.”

“it feels exactly like it was in 2006 but without what happened to the gaming world in the past 20 years”

“I loved Everquest and World of Warcraft but those didn't feel "raw" enough for me.”

“The later ones kept bolting on systems until playing felt like managing a spreadsheet.”

“"retail" WoW basically evolved by Blizzard adding features in response to player feedback where each step when viewed individually seemed reasonable”

“Classic WoW wasn't perfect, but it was amazing, and it's NOT all just nostalgia-glasses.”

“classic WoW was simpler and for new players provided something that modern WoW doesn't”

“now that the player bases are separated, each version of the game can really thrive.”

“Blizzard continuously trying to make it appeal to other types of players is what kept killing it.”

“They really don't have a culture of listening to player feedback, and it drags their games down.”

“Vanilla WoW really did have a different design ethos than the later expansions did, and some people prefer that experience.”

“the modern game has become so unrecognizable that it's basically WoW 2.0, you ruined it with the modern systems”

“they eventually caved and launched classic WoW to overwhelming success”

“Those games did not become what they were by copying predecessors but by innovating”

“The Apple Silicon version runs so well I had hoped they brought that same performance jump to Windows on ARM.”

“I have regularly emulated WoW on Linux since 2013 and not had any significant issues.”