• e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    There seems to be a market for classic mmorpgs. I wonder why Guild Wars didn’t already receive the Wow Classic treatment.

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      18 hours ago

      It doesn’t really need it, you can just buy and play it, and it got a graphics update a while ago, so to me at least it looks as good as it looked back in 2005 when I first booted it up

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      18 hours ago

      As a long time fan and proud GWAMM, honestly it doesn’t need the “classic” treatment. It’s still online, and the last major content patches didn’t change anything significant enough to alter the gameplay in a way that would make people “miss the old days”. They added some end game content and some quality of life improvements and some tools that allowed players to more easily solo content, then left well enough alone. It still has a small core of regular players, and has the event schedule going on auto. I suppose they could do some graphical improvements but it’s still a very good game as it is

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      1 day ago

      I think it’s a much much smaller player base. It was successful, but WoW was a mind blowing success.

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      2 days ago

      I was under the impression that WoW classic came about because nu-WoW was hemorrhaging players to other, better MMO’s, such as FFXIV and Guild Wars 2.

      Not much need for a GW Classic if GW2 is still going strong.

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      2 days ago

      It doesn’t really need it, it’s been live and active since its launch. I suppose new content and ongoing updates would be welcome, but I doubt it would make financial sense.

      • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 days ago

        I think even a relaunch with only the first campaign at the start could revitalize the community. I’d wager there are plenty of people who would want to relive the glory days of Guild Wars 1.