That being said, that didn’t inherently mean that Classic needed to be a lower-rent venture than the original game because there are absolutely philosophical and functional shifts that can be made without diluting what made a classic server desirable in the first place. One of my regular statements about WoW Classic has been that it hasn’t been for me from launch because, well, this was a game where my memories were already clear and I was in no need of a nostalgia trip. But as I’ve discussed with both Season of Mastery and the excising of an important element of Wrath, we seem to have ultimately burnt away any pretense of what Classic could have been.
To be fair, I recognize that there have always been dueling philosophies at the heart of WoW Classic, something not materially helped by the fact that a lot of the voices most strenuously advocating for a Classic server have historically been among the most toxic and gatekeeping forces in the community. Once we saw that the way forward was just “the way it was, but again,” the mistake was made. The thing is that the whole real squandering took place and has only been magnified by the fact that we are now talking about Wrath as a classic expansion.
I already wrote that column, and nothing has changed since then. No, this is not going to be a column laughing about the still-idiotic decision to torch one of the most fondly remembered features from the expansion. With the upcoming release of Wrath of the Lich King Classic, I think it’s now completely fair to say that World of Warcraft took the idea of WoW Classic and completely failed to capitalize on it.
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