The initial Classic launch on Monday night was quite laggy, but Blizzard had warned that it would be. (Aerie Peak and Pagle, for anyone curious). In fact, one amusing irony is that the Retail server I hung out on last night was full of more complaining about Classic mechanics than the actual Classic server I’m playing on. Other meme callouts include “50 DKP minus,” (NSFW based on language), “Shield / Hearth,” and… *sigh* “Leroy Jenkins.” There have been multiple calls for someone to fire up a Ventrilo server for everyone to group on and while I’ve seen some arguments in chat, I’d say Classic has generally been friendlier than retail. Well, that, and fighting over whether the Deadmines instance should be abbreviated “DM” or “VC.” I have witnessed this argument three times now, on two different servers. On Classic servers, the general chatter is over how much fun people are having and how glad they are to be back in a version of the game they like. On the Retail servers, chatter about Classic is mostly about how bad it is and how glad various players are not to be engaging with it.
There’s a definite group of people who have no idea how to play the game - stumbling through various issues, fighting to orient themselves in classes they either never played back in 2004 or have forgotten how to play according to 15-year-old rules. What I find more interesting is how the player base is reacting to Classic on the whole. Certain WoW Classic mechanics, like the need to “tag” mobs in order to receive credit (and only one person can tag a mob) means that it takes longer to complete certain quests. This is an obvious problem for any game - the rush of players experiencing the content at launch is always high, which means competition for resources, spawns, and drops is also high. Thus far, it’s been a bit hampered, simply because the enormous explosion of level 1’s rolling in new character zones is so high. I’ve decided to do a comparison between the leveling experience for 1-60 between retail WoW and Classic WoW.
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