Kross415: The BIGGEST Issues Classic Will Face:

1. Blizzard

2. The playerbase

3. Bots

stephenkirvan9839: A battle pass system for Classic would be catastrophic

Frostgnaw: I love how blizzard players just give up when it comes to bots. You want to know how to stop botting and gold buying? You ban the buyers and the sellers. Do you lose money in the short-term? Sure. Do you maintain the integrity and fairness of the players that don't cheat? Absolutely.

It's laziness and greed that keep the bots in the game.

TheNewLooter: I hard disagree with you about the last point. Open beta / early access is an absolute scourge in modern gaming. If they can beta test in secrecy and ensure no leaks they totally should.

ctg4818: I swear some private server GMs do a better job a manually banning bots than Blizzard has in years

RaiderDave99: If you go in to Classic with an open mind and no expectations, there will be no disappointment

mattydemiseTTV: At this point does anyone trust that Blizzard is going to do the concept justice? Moreover, is Blizzard able to construct a Classic with more attention to detail, care, love, and passion than the Turtle WoW team did? I highly doubt it. Be prepared for a Classic with the WoW Token, RMT, no GDKP, no live GMs, and realms flooded with bots and farmers.

StrikerZero6: I can almost guarentee the bots/streamers are gonna ruin it for everyone....

randomname6444: "Classic needs to make money"

Are we forgetting the game is already priced with a hefty monthly subscription fee?

How is it that blizzard used to be able to create this entire game with a comparable amount of money and now they cant even add anything to it?!

They are already milking the soul out of wow with all the crap they sell.

In the case of Blizzard I'd love if they lost the ability to sue these private servers so the game could finally be free of this godawful corporation

vXCozmoz: Blizz needs heavy microtransactions with Classic plus because their bosses and shareholders "need a 5k dollar raise every month". Sigh.

Vanilla 2005, TBC 2007, Wrath 2009 worked out more than good without a ton of that crap.

tompatompsson: If the biggest isn't "classic players" its wrong.

mythikos3535: Twow and Ascension were better than anything blizzard will give you.

Fragments.of.Knowledge: Turtle and Ascension are the best classic wow servers ever made. Blizzard will never put that much effort into it. They will ruin their relationship with the player base and go downhill from there. RIP WoW.

MeadstheAlmighty: They really need to take notes from OSRS. They've been leading the classic revitalization project pretty successfully.

ignaciomartin562: Classic Plus will probably be a failure because there is a single version of Classic Plus inside every WoW Classic player's mind. Most people will be upset X feature is not present while Y is.

Samoooooooo: Oh nice Valheim meadows music WillE, I make valheim vids so I recognized it instantly.

TheLegionofUwU: The biggest “Lul…sure…” moment. Saying the biggest classic plus demographic will be late 20’s early 30s now.

My brother in Christ. Thank you for that compliment

TheK1ngdomK1ng: "Guys we stole TurtleWoWs code, so we're happy to announce Classic !" Lmao

xXimakidXx: the team that understood what made wow tick is gone. all gone, blizzard does not deserve your money. but you do you

nutcrackit7396: the main things at launch I want to see is class changes, a couple new races, QoL changes, and finished/expanded questlines. I think the first bit of "new" content they could introduce is a month after launch include old hillsbrad and black morass as rebalanced dungeons.

nutcrackit7396: I am going to preemptively say be the change you want to see! Exclude gold buyers from your guilds and groups. Someone bought gold? kick them. Doesn't matter how important they are to your group.

joshgaston7839: Hmm, if only there were devs around that successfully pulled off a classic plus experience that Blizzard could take notes from

dieseerobe1728: why provide better service than private servers when you can take them down?

Fabriciod_Crv: also to add to the "no datamining" talk, it's EXTREMELY naive to think a game in 2026 to not have leaks of any kind, especially live service games like WoW.

vaylox09: I want wrath not a new timeline retail that has classic elements.

BlazzinBobby: Fantastic video! Thank you for tackling the tough questions. I miss chatting with you Wille

BuzzzdLightyear: Personally I think their best shot at success is if they take Classic and completely diverge it from retail. Whether that starts with Vanilla, TBC, or Wrath, I dont know. But they should take a page out of Jagex' book and make Classic is own divergent storyline and gameplay experience compared to retail. If it's just another Seasonal or Vanilla server then I think it will be a let down.

Jun 22 2026

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