Casually Classic: Is it Worth Playing into World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm Classic?
Do you know that feeling of flipping through cable channels or endless Netflix menus only to suspect there’s nothing on that would hit the spot? I kind of feel like that in World of Warcraft lately. We’ve never had so many versions of the game than we do right now, and yet none of them is exactly what I’m looking for in this MMO.
Narrowing down the selections somewhat to the “Classic” side of the equation, I’m more than a little burned out on vanilla and all the variations thereof, including Season of Discovery. Yet whenever I turn my attention back to regular WoW Classic, the specter of the imminent future gives me real pause — and that’s what I want to talk about today because maybe you’re in the same boat.
The Current State of WoW Classic
Here’s the situation as it stands for regular WoW Classic. Thanks to the inherent quality of WoW’s second expansion, Wrath Classic was in a good spot. We had a solid build of the game with lots of content and plenty of welcome quality-of-life features. To me, this is a far more satisfying version of the game than vanilla without being so warped that it trades away that old classic feeling for the modern design.
But Wrath is over, and in a few weeks, we’ll be thrust into Cataclysm’s beta and pre-patch whether we want to or not.
The Cataclysm Conundrum
This is where Blizzard fouled up. I get why the studio is pushing into the third expansion. It’s not what I would’ve done, but I get it. The problem is that the studio isn’t giving us any choice whether we want to stay in the Wrath era or not.
https://www.mmoexp.com/Wow-cata-classic/Gold.htmlCasually Classic: Is it Worth Playing into World of Warcraft’s Cataclysm Classic?
Do you know that feeling of flipping through cable channels or endless Netflix menus only to suspect there’s nothing on that would hit the spot? I kind of feel like that in World of Warcraft lately. We’ve never had so many versions of the game than we do right now, and yet none of them is exactly what I’m looking for in this MMO.
Narrowing down the selections somewhat to the “Classic” side of the equation, I’m more than a little burned out on vanilla and all the variations thereof, including Season of Discovery. Yet whenever I turn my attention back to regular WoW Classic, the specter of the imminent future gives me real pause — and that’s what I want to talk about today because maybe you’re in the same boat.
The Current State of WoW Classic
Here’s the situation as it stands for regular WoW Classic. Thanks to the inherent quality of WoW’s second expansion, Wrath Classic was in a good spot. We had a solid build of the game with lots of content and plenty of welcome quality-of-life features. To me, this is a far more satisfying version of the game than vanilla without being so warped that it trades away that old classic feeling for the modern design.
But Wrath is over, and in a few weeks, we’ll be thrust into Cataclysm’s beta and pre-patch whether we want to or not.
The Cataclysm Conundrum
This is where Blizzard fouled up. I get why the studio is pushing into the third expansion. It’s not what I would’ve done, but I get it. The problem is that the studio isn’t giving us any choice whether we want to stay in the Wrath era or not.
https://www.mmoexp.com/Wow-cata-classic/Gold.html
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