The Unfinished Side Of Vanilla WoW We NEVER Saw

you forgot to say that even the dragon isles were planed in classic. i saw a lot of alpha stuff for this.

Well we finally got the Emerald Dream......in Dragonflight

It is interesting that we have the Emerald Dream now (or at least a portion of it that is in the dragon isles as the emerald dream spans the entire world) yet I dont really feel anything from the new zone. Its just sort of lame. Part of that has to do with the DF story being boring and me not caring at all about Fyrakk or the world tree.

they really should've made player housing, i'd LOVE to just own my little cute human farmhouse somewhere

this video aged like fine wine! looking forward to seeing what blizzard does in SoD

On the topic of player housing: The game I feel did player housing best was Wildstar. You had an instanced plot that was the same size as all others and you could customize that plot to your hearts content. You could put a cookie cutter house on it or do a completely unique design. You pick up decor from random world drops, dungeon drops, etc. They even had a player profession that was crafting housing decor. The entrance to your housing plot was an instance in the main city. It was a place to go and just kinda create something to your liking. Yet it was attached to the main city so just like in real life, if you need something, you gotta leave the comfort of your home and go into town!

we lost out on player housing that early on??? 😞

Oh, if the original was supposed to include Northrend, include that and DKs in Classic Plus.

yuhs

Blizzard dont make money off patches they make a ton off expansions

Classic Plus could be such a great experience for the community but since people would expect no micro-transactions for a vanilla experience there is no incentive for Blizzard to create this. They need to monetize everything nowadays and gaming itself has lost its priority. Blizzard back in the days was a completely different company with different visions for their games.

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the alpha troll female model actually makes where more sense than what they ended up going with.

Over my dead body I'll spend another expansion in a sewer. Order Halls were complete ass...

You know, you can create content without taking sponsorships from cheap distasteful mobile money grabs

You're an absolute legend for saying Dota before moba

Eranikus and the Emerald Dream being excluded was the one that stuck with me the most.

Something that I think is really funny is that once Uldum was added to the game not only does it not continue that quest thread, the Valley of the Watchers doesn't even lead to Uldum. That's a dead end; you get to Uldum through an unnamed valley to the west.

You forgot Hyjal

Housing in Vanilla doesn't make too much sense to me, housing in retail does. Think about the systems that are actually fun in WoW that arent't that hard to add and update to (pet battles, collections, etc). Every expansion should let you customize your house a bit more. Your feats of strength or legacy achievements should give you actual items to decorate your home to make it much more personal. Someone playing since vanilla until now would theoretically have all kinds of trophies and items to mess around with. Maybe you can get more trophies right now like killing the bosses in AQ 20, AQ 40, BWL and MC but if you killed them back in the day you'd get a "platinum" trophy or some kind of variant.

I'd genuinely have prefered the alpha female Troll models, they match the Trolls better and would've destroyed the argument that made Goblins take the Ogre's spot in cata (they couldn't figure out how to make an appealing female ogre model)

You really must make more of these videos! I saw the later video first and this one now, really great! Please make more on Classic but also TBC and WOTLK as well if you can find data and info on those also. Really hope to see more of this kind from you! ❤

I love that IF that looks amazing!!!

These holes in the game have long been there and I wished I had gotten to see them to the end as I love exploring the game.

I got into WoW at one of the first closed betas and saw so much change from very early on and got hooked by all the promise the game had. Every expansion left me more and more dissapointed though with how many cool things got forgotten by the newer devs and how much got retconned into blandness. It really felt like the original creators left and the new guys did their own thing, always chasing the new hip thing, completely oblivious to what was originally planned and never finishing the old stuff.

I just came across the gates to Uldum (without the quest) while playing on a vanilla private server and went looking for a video talking about this kind of stuff, and lo and behold this is exactly what I wanted! It even leads with the example that caught my attention!
There's so many mysterious "cliffhangers" in the world that make it so magical to explore, and I feel like subsequent expansions never really captured that. TBC, Wrath, and Cata all focused very much on wrapping up major loose ends, rather than introducing many new mysteries (though there were definitely some, like the creature swimming underneath one of Northrend's troll dungeons).

I've always hoped they would do something like Classic+. Lore wise they could make it some kinda alternate time line or multiverse shit. Adding a lot of the cut content and features from vanilla would be awesome

I like the idea of reviving classic I much prefer actually interacting with people.. sick of paying for a mmo and basically having to play myself due to auto queueing 😂😂😂

I wish female Trolls had kept the hunch tbh. I love the hunched male Trolls and it kinda irks me that their postures are so different.

There is a reason why collectively (by the majority) WotLK was revered and considered the last of true WoW. Because it kept the essence of Vanilla WoW. That is because it was the last of the unused quests, lands, characters, lore and more from Vanilla WoW added back in.

Cataclysm was like a TV show that kills off the main character and replaces it with some made-up bozo that has nothing to do with anything.

The portal in the Twilight Grove in Duskwood is thought to be the entrance to the scrapped Emerald Dream

Just give us classic+ already. fill up the orginal world only.

Not gonna lie, I wish they went with the lanky female trolls instead of the wildly dimorphic sexy ones they went with. They look more like trolls and trying to make them sexy is just disappointing.

I want my dance studio they promised me 13 years ago!!!

This is why I enjoy the private server scene these days. Various servers have attempted to create their own version of things that were incomplete or altogether scrapped from the game.

Blizz should adopt the OSRS model of new content release for Classic WoW.

I remember first playing in 2005, we had extremely bad internet, an extremely bad PC, couldn't even play in any zones that had a major city in it, the most I did was run around mulgore killing for hours on my tauren hunter, pity I'll never get that feeling back

I dont understand the advertisement you give us which is epic fantasy world, your whole audience is interested in wow ;p

a very nice video that made me remember how my brother used to arrange tours inside our guild before cataclysm and flying in the old world

he'd issue guildies with elixirs of waterwalking and we'd all ride with him on the surface of the ocean from the eastern shores of tanaris to the southern most tip of kalimdor
there we could ride up a very specific incline and come up and over into a glitch in the graphics leading us below ahn'qiraj to huge fields of giant shimmering semi-transparent eggs

it was such a beautiful area and i miss that place and i'm very sad i lost those and many other screenshots from that time

The main reason they put all that content into expansions was that they realized that all that gating did rip communities apart. Imagine you were starting Classic at the time Naxxramas was released. You would have to grind raids for month just to be able to join your friends in Naxx (yes, it was considered super difficult back then). Now imagine there were 5 more tiers after that. Almost no one but the very elite players would be able to even go there, because everyone else is lacking gear and will have a hard time getting people to join their catch-up raids.

The idea of frequent resets, as annoying as it is sometimes, are the only way of keeping the community intact.

They really should try and make a WoW 2.0