TBC Classic

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Originally Posted by Byue [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tons of evidence lead us to believe that the experience on P99 is vastly different than in 1999.

Enchanters and charm, for instance.
And with people knowing everything and anything about everything.
We still have fun.

I mean, for the average player, there was still the learning curve for the fights, etc.
(even though fights are very easy in classic)

so top guilds cleared content rapidly but the normal guilds had trouble like back in the day.

A lot like seal team or much less raid target.
And that shit ain't classic.



Wait, what I am trying to say is that it's as classic as they can make a game everyone and their mom knows everything about because part of the classic experience was being a 12 years old idiot who don't know how to wow.

There's some big differences between Classic WoW and P99 though

While RMT'ing pp and items no doubt happens to some extent on P99, it is RAMPANT on WoW. I have never once in all my time playing classic and reading the classic forums heard about a person even temp banned for buying gold. it simply was not policed. At all. So gold buying was rampant, and therefore botting was rampant. They did ban waves of tens of thousands of bot accounts, but it was only like 2 times a year. That didn't even put a dent in the number of bots, because the chinese gold farmers that were doing it had backup accounts lined up a ready to go. You could do a /who all mauradon and see 30 different mages with names like "jsjsk" and no one at blizz cared

Then GDKP started to take over all pug raids, at least when I was playing. And that wouldn't be so much of a problem, but especially on larger servers with gold buying so rampant, if you DIDN'T buy gold or sell boosts as a mage, good luck being able to afford any good items in the bid war. I remember trying to get in a BWL GDKP raid after our guild one didn't happen because not enough people were online. I asked them if they thought it would be even worth coming with how much gold I was brining. "Well how much are your bringing?" Me: "Saved up only about 1.5k so far" Answer: "No, it's not worth coming". And once GDKP took over, soft reserve PuGs started to dry up. That GDKP run was the only PuG BWL happening on my server at the time

Min/max culture aside, classic wow became 100% business, and a RMT business at that. And that's how retail is too, for arenas. So much boosting and buying rating. And it's going to happen in arenas in TBC classic. I didn't do enough PvE in TBC to remember how the raids went to attempt to predict how much GDKP is going to be going on. At least there will still be guilds who will be doing soft reserves, at least at the beginning of TBC

I don't think P99 will ever reach levels of RMT that were happening in Classic WoW