WoW Classic Was So Congested That Players Literally Lined Up To Complete Quests

I still haven't found a proper answer to this question of mine about Classic. Is Classic actually Vanilla WoW, or is it modern WoW jazzed up to look like Vanilla? Meaning: Is classic actually WoW v1.12? Or is it modern WoW engine, with a remade Vanilla world map?

It's 2 COMPLETELY different concepts, but it's hard to explain without making it sound like they are the same thing. If I play Classic, is it EXACTLY the same as playing WoW 1.12 on a private server (or even retail when it was 1.12)?

To me, there is no "Classic" or even true "Vanilla" unless you play from 1.xx TO 1.12... 1.12 is very different from 1.8, for example. Many changes were made from each content patch, and that is VERY important to note for an actual Vanilla experience. Content patches were the expansions BEFORE expansions came out. I started around 1.7 or 1.8, and I genuinely prefer that over the "finished package" that is 1.12

Starting at 1.12 and calling it the Vanilla experience is like starting at the latest retail patch and calling it the full WoW experience. You miss out on a LOT of stuff that is now redundant, and you miss out on EVEN MORE that was outright removed from the game.

good, I'm pleased for them, Bliz have had allot of shit recently.

Can't these quests be completed in groups?

In reality it's not even that congested. There's only like 3-5 servers that actually get like this meanwhile there's like 20 servers that are medium/low population and NEVER have queues to get on or get like this. Meanwhile people, for some reason I can't understand, decide to put themselves through this instead of distributing the population more evenly across all those other servers.

I appreciate the wholesomeness of this. I also think it's pretty funny that we essentially have Queue Simulator as a minigame in WoW.

I played most of the day today and just got to level 11. Having fun though its much better than what they have now. IMO:P

Much different than the true "classic" days when 300 players were running around the same patch of land waiting for Hogger to respawn.

Hilarious.

I mean, it's nice that people are behaving civilly, but how are the servers this congested when Blizzard has the resources it has in this day and age?

In 2019 it should be effortless to deploy new servers and scale out in automated fashion.

I suppose WoW has too much tech debt or isn't architected in a way to take advantage of current containerization and orchestration technologies. How many resources does a single WoW instance even require to serve if full of players? I imagine not much by today's resource standards.

These kinds of prolonged issues should really be a thing of the past at this point.

Funny how something that would have set the WOW forums on fire like the bombing of Dresden back when Classic was all there was is now somehow cool and quaint and awesome. Back then, this would have been considered the epitome of developer fail and melted oh so many snowflakes in a flaming lake of ragequit.

Heh. That's pretty cool. Not at all what I want in any game I'm playing at all ever, but pretty cool.

MMO games as a sociability tool are working! It doesn't matter if the tastes doesn't evolve :P

Looks almost like the first time my que popped years ago, except for the lines, because everyone scattered to adventure through the starting lines to see what it looked like and what could be done. And realizing that there is limited bag space for EVERYTHING I thought I would need. Then there were other options, like raids, but those required more than 1 person (and eventually more than me and my pet). Ahh the good ole days. I think as one of the "old timers" (someone called us in another article) I'll stick to BFA /WoA (depending on how you look at the game, not so much the title of it) until the excitement dies down a bit. After all, there are so many folks who will become bored with classic within the first three months, and then the que times will reduce for real game time players looking for a different sort of challenge, grinds, and raids that can last a very long time.

What will make the classic version most enjoyable, is when the complainers stop playing about how bad everything is, and remembers thry have other options to satisfy their need for instant gratification playing...as that is what non-classic is, a result of all the players who didn't appreciate all that classic was, the first time around. For those of you happiest now, enjoy! I did my first time ;) and look forward to the time I'll be able to return

Blizz is just giving players the authentic 2004 experience. Have fun with that guys!

Looks almost like the first time my que popped years ago, except for the lines, because everyone scattered to adventure through the starting lines to see what it looked like and what could be done. And realizing that there is limited bag space for EVERYTHING I thought I would need. Then there were other options, like raids, but those required more than 1 person (and eventually more than me and my pet). Ahh the good ole days. I think as one of the "old timers" (someone called us in another article) I'll stick to BFA /WoA (depending on how you look at the game, not so much the title of it) until the excitement dies down a bit. After all, there are so many folks who will become board with classic within the first three months, and then the que times will reduce for real game time players looking for a different sort of challenge, grinds, and raids that can last a very long time.

What will make the classic version most enjoyable, is when the complainers stop playing about how bad everything is, and remembers thry have other options to satisfy their need for instant gratification playing...as that is what non-classic is, a result of all the players who didn't appreciate all that classic was, the first time around. For those of you happiest now, enjoy! I did my first time ;) and look forward to the time I'll be able to return

And yet not a single soul found Mankrik's wife.

honestly, the in game lines are good butttttttt..... this madness is what kills these games for me.. there is no uniqueness to them. when literally everyone if doing the exact same thing it kills the experience for me. Elder scrolls did this to me as well..

Favorite memory is going to this fire place and having to talk to this old man and when i got there another player walked through the door.... and killed the guy.. now my quest was over and i had no idea what happened. that kinda stuff kept happening and it was not worth the effort.

i get open world MMO style but it should be more random

There are literally thousands of quests in this game, and you n00bs stood in line? .....Keep waiting for the game to come to you.

Haha that's awesome.

I love this, you have a nice chat with people and it feels like a world again.

As a huge RPG fan, I simply do not understand the appeal of this crusty old game at all!

Waiting around for something fun to happen without it actually happening. Sounds like the Vanilla WoW experience to me. Not speaking ill of the people who want this, but this is a pretty good illustration of why I was never interested in it. At the very least, people politely organizing themselves like this is pretty cool to see.

Wait, are you guys being paid to report the same news over and over again?