[Poll] Would you play Time Lock Progression WoW?

Keeno

Seeing as time locked servers are starting to pop up I was wondering if people would re-subscribe to play through the old classic and beyond versions of wow. If you don't know what a time locked progressions server is its when they start the game over from the beginning on a new server and cast server wide votes at set time intervals to determine when new content gets added such as raids or expansions.

Purutzil

Yes... and without quality of life changes. I don't mind like bug fixes and the like that are completely detrimental or huge exploits, but if you are going to do classic keep it in all its glory (and pain). Changing things just defeats the purpose. Even if it makes things 'better' it loses the feel of what time lock is suppose to bring, and is just countering the appeal of it. A good example of this is Time Walker dungeons, which just don't deliver anywhere near the same feeling.

Ludwik

Nah, no interest.

Going back and doing MC for the 10 year made my realize just how far WoW has come. Paladins spamming kings for hours, mages just doing decurse, it just doesn't seem fun in hindsight.

hallucigenocide

Jean-Luc_Picard said:

I consider UI and graphic engine as "quality of life", so I voted yes, but with some improvements which would not affect gameplay.

Oh and don't put too much value in the results of such a poll here on these forums. 90% of those who voted 1 would quit after a short while, bored.

same here

fivoroth

Probably just for nostalgia but I don't see myself playing for long, wows endgame content in vanilla was shit, you were either a no lifer or you could only grind factions rep. The reason I am loving eq2 now is because I have never played the content as I have only got to lvl35 or so before. Biggest draw is that it's new content and there are tons of people levelling to make it fun.

wow on the other hand  was my main mmo for the longest period of time, I have played all of vanilla, tbc and wotlk and I know almost everything, I have done every quest , every raid, have played every class.

I loved vanilla and tbc but when I played it it was brand new, it was something completely different to what I have played. Wow was the most immersive game I have ever played with incredible lore and I was a wc geek. So there were a lot of things going on for it. I was also in high school for the whole of vanilla and tbc and some of wotlk. I could do the insane raiding and pvpving but not anymore. 

Also one big thing many people forget is that part of the wonder of a new world is the ideas and expectations where that world is going to go in the future. However this is completely lost on these progression servers.

Wow during vanilla and tbc was not special because of its raiding or slow progression. It was everything else that made it one of the best MMORPGS I have ever played and in my opinion the most memorable gaming experience.

Axehilt

Terrible poll options. Early WOW was worse than current WOW, so my vote is no, but without the stupid negativity towards WOW. I fully plan on resubbing at some point (probably the next expansion>)

Lazzaro

What type of QoL changes?  If you mean like UI tweaks and minor stuff sure?  But if you mean like LFG or raid finder than HELL no.

Phry

Not enough options in the poll, i will play WoW again, but, time locked servers, not so much, i am not even all that interested in vanilla WoW either.

VicodinTaco

All they have to do is make a server version of each expansion and let the players chose which expansion time frame they want to play in. Charge $15 for a server transfer for when and if a player wants to move to a new expansion and BAM, make 1 trillion dollars.

Alders

I can't live without the DK class or transmogs. My answer is yes if those two aspects are included.

observer

Anything pre-WoD is fine by me.

edit: pretty cool that the poll answers show up in our posts now.

Multibyte

VicodinTaco said:

All they have to do is make a server version of each expansion and let the players chose which expansion time frame they want to play in. Charge $15 for a server transfer for when and if a player wants to move to a new expansion and BAM, make 1 trillion dollars.

I agree with this. It would be more interesting this way.

Lazzaro

EQ and EQ2 seem to have it right.  I don't see why it couldn't work

Keeno

Lazzaro said:

What type of QoL changes?  If you mean like UI tweaks and minor stuff sure?  But if you mean like LFG or raid finder than HELL no.

I was thinking more of game altering mechanics for quality of life stuff, like group and raid finder. 

Multibyte

Keeno said:

Lazzaro said:

What type of QoL changes?  If you mean like UI tweaks and minor stuff sure?  But if you mean like LFG or raid finder than HELL no.

I was thinking more of game altering mechanics for quality of life stuff, like group and raid finder. 

Well, what I had in mind for QoL was UI improvements and such not game altering things like the dungeon finder. If QoL = LFD, LFR, etc then my vote would be option 1.

sunandshadow

I tried to make a new thread with a poll but didn't see any button to add a poll.  Does it only show up after you make the thread, or what?

dielaking

fivoroth said:

Probably just for nostalgia but I don't see myself playing for long, wows endgame content in vanilla was shit, you were either a no lifer or you could only grind factions rep. The reason I am loving eq2 now is because I have never played the content as I have only got to lvl35 or so before. Biggest draw is that it's new content and there are tons of people levelling to make it fun.

wow on the other hand  was my main mmo for the longest period of time, I have played all of vanilla, tbc and wotlk and I know almost everything, I have done every quest , every raid, have played every class.

I loved vanilla and tbc but when I played it it was brand new, it was something completely different to what I have played. Wow was the most immersive game I have ever played with incredible lore and I was a wc geek. So there were a lot of things going on for it. I was also in high school for the whole of vanilla and tbc and some of wotlk. I could do the insane raiding and pvpving but not anymore. 

Also one big thing many people forget is that part of the wonder of a new world is the ideas and expectations where that world is going to go in the future. However this is completely lost on these progression servers.

Wow during vanilla and tbc was not special because of its raiding or slow progression. It was everything else that made it one of the best MMORPGS I have ever played and in my opinion the most memorable gaming experience.

@fivoroth ;memorable gaming experience, agree with it.

rojoArcueid

As long as they dont bring back the boring open world pve from pre cata im OK. It was way too grindy and insipid. Now it feels more story driven so whenever i resub i enjoy it more.

They can add classic WoW raids and pvp, i dont care about that. But open world pve is fine where it is today (except for phasing).

Just my opinion.

Also, from what ive read, it looks like during classic WoW Blizz had some raids closed behind doors and during the world first race everyone would gather up waiting for Blizz to open it. I would love to experience that with my own eyes in game, instead of using silly teleports. I think thats the only thing i would want from classic WoW.

Warlyx

1 month ago , i would vote yes!!!! , but after playing Eq2 TLS ....im not sure about it ....and i really wanted a eq2 vanilla server but ugh...

Krimzin

There are a lot of  things from Vanilla that I liked. There were also a lot that were problematic.. ie: Hunter pet pathing.. If they could fix the issues associated with Vanilla I would play it

TyranusPrime

Not enough options in the poll.. The choices are basically "all-or-nothing" with no middle ground..

Thane

juuust sayin'... private WoW servers aren't legal.
i don't play on private servers

MMOman101

I already played WOW when it was time locked and the game pushed me out during TBC.  I see no need to relive the past. Whats done is done. I have moved on and have no need to ever go back to it.  Why would I want to do the same thing I was doing a decade ago.  Seems silly to me. 

elocke

Still, way to soon for a progression server.  Need about 3-5 more expacks before it's viable to do.  I think this poll is really about trying to get some of the classic stuff back.  Which is fine, but we don't need a "progression" server to do that, we need Blizzard stop homogenizing, but they seem to be addressing this in Legion, I hope.

Lazzaro

DMKano said:

Kicked the habit in 2004, never went back (yes I only played vanilla)

That's how I know it by.

fivoroth

rojoArcueid said:

As long as they dont bring back the boring open world pve from pre cata im OK. It was way too grindy and insipid. Now it feels more story driven so whenever i resub i enjoy it more.

They can add classic WoW raids and pvp, i dont care about that. But open world pve is fine where it is today (except for phasing).

Just my opinion.

Also, from what ive read, it looks like during classic WoW Blizz had some raids closed behind doors and during the world first race everyone would gather up waiting for Blizz to open it. I would love to experience that with my own eyes in game, instead of using silly teleports. I think thats the only thing i would want from classic WoW.

I don't know, open pve questing never bothered me. There were a lot of awesome storylines in vanilla - e.g. Tons in dusk wood, burning steppes, silithus etc. 

Raids were not closed behind doors. The only exception was Gates of Ahn Quiraj, that one required a one time world event and legendary quest chain. It was the one and only time when WoW felt like something that was beyond just a simple game. That event is what I thought mmos would be all about with massive scale events which permanently alter the world. Throw in some ancient mysteries and it was just brilliant.

But that was just only for an extremely short period of time and only for 1 raid. Vast majority of players never saw it.