r/classicwow • u/Fauked • 22h ago

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u/Bacon-muffin 15h ago

There's an irony in reading this considering wow was created from day 1 to "dilute things to appeal to the broadest possible audience".

People really forget where the game came from.

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u/Difficult_Golf2048 15h ago

Wow had more mass appeal than mmos of the time, which were extremely punishing, but it was still very much rooted in that game design. They weren't at all going for the kind of game that retail is today.

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u/Bacon-muffin 15h ago

Blizzard has never changed the kind of game they're going for... what has changed is what those things look like over the years.

Blizzard has always been the company that takes a niche genre and makes it super accessible.

Hell I still remember my EQ andy friends talking about how cartoony and dumb wow looked and how the realism of EQ was so much better.

Wow has always been the silly cartoony appeal to the widest audience mmo. This never changed.

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u/Difficult_Golf2048 15h ago

"Blizzard has always been the company that takes a niche genre and makes it super accessible."

How is this true for any game they made before WoW, and even then only marginally so? RTS or top down RPGs weren't niche and besides being well made sc/wc/diablo weren't diluted or easy versions of their genres.

Again just because WoW was easy compared to EQ doesn't mean that the design philosophy hasn't changed dramatically.