Imagine if the vanilla servers were more popular than current WoW, and what that would say about what New Blizzard has done vs what Old Blizzard did? And while I don’t think that is a given, is anyone willing to say they are 100% sure vanilla WOULDN’T have more players than the now-we-don’t-report-it under 5m WoW has today? I’m not, especially considering the utter joke that current WoW design and support is. They are leaving money on the table, in some part likely due to ego.
All the recent talk of vanilla WoW is right in my wheelhouse, and not just because its yet another feather in my giant cap of “things SynCaine was right about long before everyone else caught up”, but also because you still have certain people (Az, Tobold, and some commentators) that don’t understand why vanilla worked back then and why it would still work today (perhaps to a lesser degree, but perhaps not).Īs I wrote on Az’s blog, Blizzard not running their own vanilla server is just New Blizzard being New Blizzard.
