Urs

Christian, fat nerd, prone to bouts of stupidity.

I also block stupidity. I can't block myself.

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@EsfandTV What she sees.

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@BobWulff Looking forward to both of your reviews.

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@LOL531640917 @Marmstrongwow I mean I've mained retail for a while, but whatever helps you sleep at night, dude.

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@GigabearForever I mean historically I've always gravitated towards paladin, but yeah all the classes are looking good. I told my friend I may end up playing them all.

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@mizzysworld The only reason alliance was ever popular was because they had paladins in vanilla. lol

[Cornfed Nebraska Boy @Marmstrongwow]

I'm seeing a lot of discourse about who WoW Forever is being made for and while I cannot speak for anyone else on the team I can speak for myself. I am making WoW forever for the classic gamer and for the millions of people who have had their accounts lapse over the years because they were not satisfied with changes that were made to the game. Whether those changes were to the art style, the story, social aspects, game design, or changes to their favorite class.

I did not spend the last year of my life relearning and mastering how to do things like we did it 20+ years ago for retail players. I could have taken it easy and just kept doing things like I had done for the past 8 years on retail...because I was much more familiar with it and it actually takes a lot less time to do (height maps on textures do a ton of heavy lifting). Because the reality is that the majority of retail players wouldn't care and would probably actually prefer it. But I felt I had a duty to uphold an artistic vision and integrity that millions of people expect from us. But not just for our players, but for my co-workers past and present who worked on it over 20 years ago. If I could not create something that resembled their work then I failed not only them...but myself.

Please do not take this as me throwing any shade at retail players or the retail team because I am one myself...but I wanted to make Forever as authentic of a Vanilla experience as possible. This involves making decisions wildly different than retail. It means holding the line against changes that create a domino affect down the road. It means keeping friction and inconveniences in the game. It means finding friends and forming groups with strangers and being social!! Because WoWs social aspects have always been the pillar of the game and over the years it has slowly been chiseled away at with changes that allow you play alone.

Since the day I started working on the Riverglades I have lived by three sayings.

"Convenience is the death of the journey."

"If you're making a game for everyone then you're making it for no one."

"Every change we make incurs a debt to the authenticity of the game and sooner or later that debt will be paid."

These are my core beliefs and I had a specific group of people I was targeting with my work. These beliefs cannot be shaken and I will try to hold the line against anything that goes against them and will continue to pester the team about things that feel out of place.

That being said, my hope is that Forever will pull in as many people as possible, whether you are a retail gamer, a classic gamer, someone who hasn't played in years, or even a new player. I hope you can all remember what made this game so special in the first place and that starts with understanding why we are so passionate about keeping it authentic.

[MoiDawg @MoiDawg]

It's actually insane reading things like this.

WoW Forever was made with the intention of creating content that aligned with Classic's world and game design.

Many of us stopped playing retail WoW because of these QoL changes and removal of friction that makes it "more fun" for you.

We played Classic or Hardcore for a bit, but at this point we've done it all already. For 20 years.

WoW Forever gives us the game design we want, the friction we want, the social areas we want, and then adds more of that.

Camping? Hell yeah.
A dungeon in Undercity? Hell yeah.
A Paladin taunt but still no interrupt? Hell yeah.
New quests and areas that expand the world horizontally instead of piling on top of it? Hell. Yeah.

We're not being mean. You have a game that gives you everything you want. This is the game we've wanted for decades now. Stop trying to change it.

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@damintoell Don't you dare threaten me with a good time.

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@damintoell

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@icyveins Is this Blizzard's way of baiting people to buy gold so they can ban them?

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@CDawgVA @Tyrants_Fall >Delusional.
Ironic. Everyone you associate yourself with is a piece of shit. I'm starting to see a pattern.

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@AggrendWoW Whoever designed the Blue Elf starting zone, tell them they did a great job. I honestly like the Skyborne and I didn't think I would.

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@SmugAlana Also in no particular order.

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@SmugAlana TRIGUN BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.

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@AggrendWoW We go again.

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@AggrendWoW Definitely feeling the megserver vibe. This is my second time in queue too. lol

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@damintoell Don't they still use milk from a cow? I thought vegetarians didn't like that either, or is that just a vegan thing.

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@nypost https://t.co/0SvWYR3taF

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@Enoz____ @MrGMYT They literally showed off the sets at blizzcon. lol