Talk me out of playing Classic WoW

[Hagglebaron]

I'm deciding between the two, and definitely only have the patience for one of them. Pre-Planes EQ is my favorite game of all time, however I did Blue99 from year one until just a few years ago, while WoW classic would be new to me.

Help me decide on Green99 please, if you genuinely believe WoW to be severely flawed! My current thinking is that WoW Classic is still heading towards the garbage I know the game becomes, I don't know how long WoW stayed good after launch though.

[Evia]

Wow classic is fantastic. I’d recommend it even more so because you haven’t played it.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by Evia [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Wow classic is fantastic. I’d recommend it even more so because you haven’t played it.

I never played Wow until a few weeks ago, where I tried out the Classic server.

Honestly, the first 30 minutes were amazing; it was like a second experience of being brand new to EQ! I have fizzled out by the end of the teens, but it was great having the chance to play 'the real second everquest' on a fresh unexpanded server.

The experience really invigorated me to play even more EQ, which with green around the corner is surely a good thing!

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I never played Wow until a few weeks ago, where I tried out the Classic server.

Honestly, the first 30 minutes were amazing; it was like a second experience of being brand new to EQ! I have fizzled out by the end of the teens, but it was great having the chance to play 'the real second everquest' on a fresh unexpanded server.

The experience really invigorated me to play even more EQ, which with green around the corner is surely a good thing!

One thing I always despised on WoW was the fact that the game tells ME what an item is. For instance, the game tells ME that a certain sword is "epic" because the color of the weapon's name is purple. Here, we don't need the game to tell us that a weapon is epic.....we know it by looking at the stats. The item becomes "epic" because the community says the weapon is epic!

[Clazxiss]

Tons of edgy comments in here about why you shouldn't play classic WoW.

I want you to notice something. Go to https://www.project1999.com/ right now and have a look at the population. As I write this response to you, there are 716 people on blue. Two months ago, just before classic WoW released, the average number was around 1,200 or so. For summertime, that's an expected number since some P99 players enjoy going outside instead of playing EQ. During colder months, the Blue99 population has been up to 1,800 this past year.

If P99 was truly the superior game to WoW, it would not have lost more than half it's active population. The vocal members you see in this thread, bashing WoW, are the ones most desperate to see their P99 home maintain warm bodies. For without an audience to show their pixel achievements to, can you really them achievements?

Go ahead and play Classic WoW. It's fun and there is a distinct reason it ROFL stomped Everquest and became, to this day, the most subscribed MMORPG of all time. I won't list them all here, no need to. The biggest change between playing EQ and WoW is not having to sink hours of time into a multitude singular tasks. You won't be asked to track rare monster X over 1-72 hours. If you get into a serious issue such as death in the middle of no where, you can still salvage your gear BY YOURSELF. You won't have to beg friends at bedtime to get your corpse and XP back. Again, there's more reasons, but those are the first things that come to my mind.

The most vocal supporters of EQ tend to be players who are already at the top of the gear pyramid. Ask yourself this, do you want to see the end game content of the title you decide to play? Yes? If so, which sounds better; joining a raid at a set time to kill boss X or waiting for a text message that will require you to drop everything you're doing to kill that same monster? The text message could happen while you're sleeping or at work, but once you get it, you have a small window to get that monster before your rivals do.

Which game style is more attractive?

Depending on your answer, that should determine which game you should play.

[Lune]

Originally Posted by Clazxiss [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tons of edgy comments in here about why you shouldn't play classic WoW.

I want you to notice something. Go to https://www.project1999.com/ right now and have a look at the population. As I write this response to you, there are 716 people on blue. Two months ago, just before classic WoW released, the average number was around 1,200 or so. For summertime, that's an expected number since some P99 players enjoy going outside instead of playing EQ. During colder months, the Blue99 population has been up to 1,800 this past year.

If P99 was truly the superior game to WoW, it would not have lost more than half it's active population. The vocal members you see in this thread, bashing WoW, are the ones most desperate to see their P99 home maintain warm bodies. For without an audience to show their pixel achievements to, can you really them achievements?

Go ahead and play Classic WoW. It's fun and there is a distinct reason it ROFL stomped Everquest and became, to this day, the most subscribed MMORPG of all time. I won't list them all here, no need to. The biggest change between playing EQ and WoW is not having to sink hours of time into a multitude singular tasks. You won't be asked to track rare monster X over 1-72 hours. If you get into a serious issue such as death in the middle of no where, you can still salvage your gear BY YOURSELF. You won't have to beg friends at bedtime to get your corpse and XP back. Again, there's more reasons, but those are the first things that come to my mind.

The most vocal supporters of EQ tend to be players who are already at the top of the gear pyramid. Ask yourself this, do you want to see the end game content of the title you decide to play? Yes? If so, which sounds better; joining a raid at a set time to kill boss X or waiting for a text message that will require you to drop everything you're doing to kill that same monster? The text message could happen while you're sleeping or at work, but once you get it, you have a small window to get that monster before your rivals do.

Which game style is more attractive?

Depending on your answer, that should determine which game you should play.

I like Classic WoW but you should ask yourself if convenience and being comparatively softcore is truly the reason Classic is preferable to EQ when convenience, taken to its extreme, is ultimately a primary part of what makes retail so bad.

Everquest: I love the way this sucks.
Classic WoW: I love the way this sucks.
Retail WoW: This sucks.

For me, the appeal of Classic WoW over EQ is the breadth of features, like PvP, which was implemented horribly in EQ as an afterthought. Still somewhat of an afterthought in Classic, but still miles ahead since we have 1.12. That said, compare and contrast EQ and Classic all you want, they are different beasts entirely, and they scratch a different itch for me. Like talking about whether a car or bicycle is better.

[Deathrydar]

Originally Posted by Clazxiss [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As I write this response to you, there are 716 people on blue. Two months ago, just before classic WoW released, the average number was around 1,200 or so. For summertime, that's an expected number since some P99 players enjoy going outside instead of playing EQ.

If P99 was truly the superior game to WoW, it would not have lost more than half it's active population.

There are currently over 1,000 players online. I'm not too good at math, but last time I checked:

1,200- 50% does not = 1,000....

[gundumbwing]

It's weird how there is some misinformation in this thread about wow classic in what I can only assume are petty attempts at trolling or perhaps willful ignorance. Dungeon finder will never be in classic WoW as an example (not sure where your drug attled mind came up with conclusion).

Classic WoW is only "easier" in the sense they improved on ever single inconvenience that exists in EQ. The game aren't even realistically comparable as they are two entirely different MMOs. The PvP alone is where WoW shines, and why there's a plethora of highly populated PvP servers as opposed to a single dead one.

Both games offer different flavors. It's worth trying WoW just likes it worth trying EQ. The only evidence i can provide as to which game holds the popular vote of being better is the much larger number of servers that have over 1000 to even 10k players at peak for some servers online at a time compared to a single blue server that's now barely hitting 1k at primetime.

EQ is good. WoW classic is good. Dead Space was one of the best games ever made. Play whatever ya enjoy. But you'll never know personally how good/bad a game is unless you draw a conclusion from personal experience.

[El-Hefe]

They’re both good games. New WoW is significantly better than new EQ. Classic EQ is legendary though and there will never be a better time to experience it again than on Green.

You could probably get a level 60 on WoW before Green lauches if you start right now.

[overpower]

WoW Classic is truly the best of all versions of wow, arguably next to Wrath expansion.

Green will be cool, but still no PVP, and the PVP we have (due to mechanics) ends up being a fight of resists and jousting.

I love EQ, but PVP in this game is lame AF, everything else is top notch here.

Sorta hate the random timers on world bosses though, makes a real life hard to attain for a game of leisure...