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Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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As for PA, if we're rolling out Classic, I need some more Monster Power material to supplement the surge protector (still one of my all-time favorite strips).
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-Tycho Brahe
It's never going to be the same experience because so much of that would be tied into people you played with back then who probably aren't coming back to the game. It'll be an amusing diversion for people who want to relive part of their younger years before they remember that a lot of the vanilla WoW experience was awful. Awful like those same people were in their younger years.
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Speak for yourself! I'm pretty sure I've managed to forget almost everything about WoW vanilla from having binged it for a year when it first came out.
In all seriousness, I've managed to live WoW free my entire adult life. In fact, WoW forced me to implement a no MMO's rule, because down that path lies much wasted life. Above and beyond the normal feelings of "Am I really making the best use of my time?" gaming can sometimes afflict me with.
If I tried WoW classic and found it frustrating and boring, that might be the best possible outcome for the stability of my career and relationships.
Has anyone seen the Defius Messenger?
I'm pretty sure intentionally recreating it would violate the Geneva Protocol.
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That's if two people in your group are at the stone. Some of my fav memories from Vanilla were that first run all the way from SW or IF to SFK or SM, all on foot trying not to die and hopping nobody dropped group.
And they won't in classic as they were a BC addition.
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Wait, what purpose did they serve before that?
This is spot on, except for me that world was Norrath (in Everquest) and even by the time WoW came around things weren't the same.
I've reinstalled a bunch of times, going back to old characters and creating new ones on progression servers that start from the beginning (as much as possible), but without that group I used to play with (who are now mostly scattered) it's just not the same.
(If there are any Fourth Wall EQ people here - Huzzah!)
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Click to LFG. Because Burning Crusade added the more robust LFG system as well.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
For whatever reason, this comic title put Tone Loc jams into my brain and they wont leave...
Yeah, it's like Gabe says in the comic, he had "to PUG it out at the meeting stone". Not once did I ever use a stone and then complete a dungeon. I sure tried.
so you could walk up to any meeting stone and click on it to get some sort of LFG interface? I never knew that, I started playing WoW at the end of 06 and BC launched in Jan 07, so I def missed alot.
Apparently they weren't added until Patch 1.3.0. You can read the whole history of the Meeting Stone in this Engadget article.
I forget I wasn't actually playing till a few months after launch, 1.3 was right before I started playing.
In all honesty, I think vanilla was pretty great and I have confidence that Activision-Blizzard know their business well enough that they wouldn't be doing this if there wasn't a viable market for it, but I do agree with most of you guys that there's also a lot of people who are going to be disillusioned by the actual experience. It's not just the novelty the game had, it's that most people playing were high school to college age then, and now they are 11 years older and in a very different place in their lives and nostalgic for an era when they could waste time grinding AV for the Stormpike Battle Charger or Frostwolf Howler.
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Yeah, but this is harder to explain for some things than others.
Like, a brain or heart, sure, you stabbed them through it, you done fucked up, it happens. But a wolf has four paws and they are generally far from the business bits you're going to be mostly aiming for so it seems weird that you managed to fuck up all four of them every fight!
At the start of the game you kill some wolves and they drop a bunch of random stuff. Armor, gold, etc... Then the next one you kill there's some dialog box that says something to the effect of "you wonder why wolves would be carrying around money and clothing anyway". From then on they only drop wolf pelts. I thought that was pretty clever.
Later on Blizz did something similar. Instead of gnoll paws you'd have a quest to harvest 5 PRISTINE gnoll brains, or whatever. Like, this one is ok. It's a perfectly serviceable brain, but is it PRISTINE?
The trick is to start off by playing vanilla EQ for a while. When you move to vanilla WoW, it'll feel like the enormous breath of fresh air it was at the time.
I started with DikuMUDs. Actually the one Brad McQuaid got a lot of his inspiration for Everquest from down to the class list. As much as I like to joke about the quests in original WoW, they were light years ahead in user friendliness compared to what transpired before them where there weren't any quests and you just got a group together to grind mobs for a few hours and would need a group because even lone mobs scaled so much in comparison to one player that a trash mob would wreck one's shit.
And yet i still have fond memories of that due to a mix of friendships and Stockholm syndrome.
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You can tell the quality of a MMORPG by the quality of the community playing it. The shittier that it is, the more effort that the player base will put into doing things other than actually playing it.