World of Warcraft Classic Era Should Be Free to Play!

[@Olivierax]

Playing classic for the first time because retail's progression is to fast for me. Love it so far! Wish they did more with Classic wow, it's simple and feels good to play

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

I 100% agree. There's a charm to it. A relaxing vibe of just knowing that you can go at your own pace and you don't need to worry about learning 19 years of content before playing with the veterans.

[@ziudra91]

If you love it then why do you want it changed

[@ziudra91]

That's what season of mastery is for. Era servers should remain like they are. Not everyone wants to play classic+

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

@@ziudra91 I don’t think we want classic era to be classic plus, I just wish that they did more to get players to try it out. More people in classic era means you can actually enjoy the group content. It means you can form more guilds and stuff. But like I said in the video, I don’t think there’s any expectation that there will be any development, so just work within the content that is there already and open it up to more people.

[@ziudra91]

@@AllTradesJackReviews Era is fine as it is. We already have season of mastery for all the classic+ people.

[@JohnBestPia]

I have been on a crusade with my wow group to not re-up until the subscription model changes. Either offer a true subscription that includes upgrades and new content as part of the subscription or make players buy the game and allow them to play without subscription cost - or at minimal - allow standalone play without subscription.

[@donutguy3854]

15 dollars is so much money. In other countries the exchange rate is insane.

[@CaladinThePaladin]

Legit make classic era free offer transfers to wotlk when they get bored or 1 free retail boost in exchange for a max level classic era character easy profit

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

That's actually a really good idea...

[@Matthew_A_N]

Loving turtle wow, for classic plus experience

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

I might check that out, I’ve been hearing a bit about it

[@gimbatul9761]

I've spend hundreds on this game. And for 10 years + since I quit. All I wanted to do is simply log in and fly over a few zones for nostalgias sake. But I'm not going to pay blizzard another penny for the privilege. I remember the BS server cost arguments people used to make. I hate that they can't just stop milking this cash cow.

[@Pellele]

i would love to play classic for free but there is no way im gonna pay monthly fee just to play the game like up to a week a month...

[@Mammonita]

I think the season version (seasonal) should be paid similar to the retail version. The Classic Era version should be given as a gift to players who have paid more than two years of monthly fees as a thank you (avoids bot). And anyone who bought any expansions in the past shouldn't have the Started Edition restrictions until level 20.

[@rasmusdyhrandersen1823]

I agree

[@duck-o9151]

i have never played wow but classic just seems more beginner friendly to me so when i start playing next week i will probably only play classic at first

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

I personally think that is the best way to start. I agree with you, Classic is much more casual and beginner friendly. And Classic era is the base game in all its old 2005-2006 glory, so it'll help you to understand the other two modes SO MUCH BETTER if you feel like jumping to those after. I hope you enjoy it!!

[@royakard8536]

Considering all the powerful games blizzard had on battle net free... It would seem like a fine idea.. But.. I fear the whole franchise would have to be tanking before blizzard ever considered free wow IMO.

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

I sadly agree. It would take a lot for blizzard to put resources into a free version of WoW.

[@josephviola7791]

Great video and great points. I am a player who currently just wants to play classic era casually so F2P would be amazing. Spread the word 👍🏼

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

I am right there with ya. If the expansion is slow or classic moves on to cataclysm, I would 100% play classic era casually.

[@robertchammas1883]

Where was the thread that theyre thinking of making vanilla f2p

[@jwilham]

As a new player, been playing like 3 weeks, one of the biggest turn aways was the graphics. graphics do not matter if the game play is good enough, but the game play just in not good enough to excuse PlayStation 2 style graphics... but i thought until i try it again, and the graphics are not bad anymore. But still, playing through the intro area, they have beginner metal amour that looks like painted on long johns. BUT, the game does look way better, and the war within environments are awesome. something strait out of fantasy. There should be no excuse why blizzard can not redo storm wind and the hoard HQ to match the level of quality of other expansions. Also, change the quest UI. it still looks like its from a 2000's game. There should also be a reason to make storm wind or the hoard HQ your main base of operation regardless of what ever expansion is going on. Logging in for the first time and not seeing anyone in the main hub doesn't do well for the new player experience. If you want players to be at the new expansion hub, make them pop out there after doing the into, but pick a spot all players will pop out no matter paid or not. On top of that, anytime i have a question on how to do something, there is never a simple answer. There is 0 effort on blizzards part to explain or make anything intuitive. For example... why can i see portals i cant use. what's the point of having the portal there if i cant use it. so i try to look up why the portal isn't working only to get such a huge range of BS that has nothing to do with he portal not working. If i know where the other end of the portal is, if i go thought it, it should unlock the portal. There are dozens and dozens of things like that with no simple answer to them.

[@DarkSnP]

ayyy 10k subs ezzzz! love your vids m8 keep it up

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

Thank you very much! Glad you liked the video!

[@CallMeTeci]

What Blizz imo should do is doing the same for char-levels, what they did to crafting (Seperate Level per Expansion). Or AT LEAST make something like that optional - like Chromie-Time but better for people that are interested to play through older expansions AND for those that want to start straight into the current Expansion. Also every Dungeon/Raid should be soloable in that "mode" or in the best case played together with relevant NPCs. And everything up to Cata could be the free trial. I mean WoW is such a big game and has such a big ass story from Classic/BC to Dragonflight now... i think there are many players like me, that would like to play through them in order, with a red string for us to follow the important-events (OR at least that quests which are not from the played Expansion are not shown on the map). But that would need a good bunch of work from Blizz and i doubt that they have any interest in doing that. But for me Chromie Time was a chore - especially the first char that is forced to play BfA up to Level 50(?), before you can even freely access another Expansion with Chromie. (Like... WHY?!?) Literally made me quit the game three times over the course of several years... FFXIV does a way better job at showing their players what they have in petto in terms of the games story, making you feel close the the characters and environments. WoW isnt doing that at all. That said... i dont think that Classic as a Trial will give people a reason to sub for the Retail version, while people that want to enjoy the Trial version wont care about Classic. I also think that the very decreased pacing of Classic will drive away potential Retail-players. I dont think there is much overlapping of target audiences of both game-versions. So i think it would be better to make Retail more beginner-friendly in a way that they have no problem of getting the feeling to get home whenever they log in and go on adventures. But that is just my take on this. :)

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

Oh yeah the chromie time thing is a good idea but I definitely think it needs to be flushed out more. The new player and leveling experience is pretty rough in retail. I do think that there is a section of players that play both classic and retail. But I think you are right that they play for different reasons. Like for me, I play retail for the end game and new modern content. But I play classic for the leveling experience and nostalgia. I went back to classic era for a bit and it’s like a comfort game. So it’s all connected but for very different reasons. It just depends on what type of game the new player would like!

[@GameMaker04]

classic had me re-hooked. I went overseas for a few years and when I got back.. they had moved my char out of classic era vanilla into cataclysm .. so that was that. My raid gear all moved to realm where its the lowest you can have.

[@joshw3719]

Me as well as thousands would always play a fresh no changes server every 2 years. There’s a reason why we have played it for over a decade and people keep urning for it. The first season of mastery was too soon and people didn’t realize what they wanted, heck, I didn’t even realize it. I always thought Wrath was the king, and after playing it, I can now confidently say vanilla will always be the king and hold a special place in my heart. As for it, not being perfect, that’s what is so perfect about it. It is perfectly imperfect and every class has their role. I even made a druid and a hunter in vanilla and I wouldn’t want any changes to them or for them to be buffed. I excelled in many other areas where a high DPS’ing rogue or warrior couldn’t come close. I like that the class has its own unique feel, and I wouldn’t want anything to be monetized. #NoChangeAsAlways!

[@ahusayin]

Great video, I used to be a regular classic player back in 2011 and lost my account with the others when the server was hacked. Got busy with life and responsibilities, joined the Navy and never thought of coming back until now, felt like reliving those good days and feel that nostalgia I enjoyed as a civilian, but finding out that classic was no more F2P literally killed my excitement. It would be great if Blizzard offers it for free. Spread the word!

[@MasterJohnam]

Total no brainer to attract players. They could even add in optional purchase cosmetics and I wouldn't give two shits.

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

Lol agreed 😂

They will make classic f2p when it will be close to death, and they will be done with development (to be honest I don't know what development team they have in classic but anyway), same thing happened with SC1, SC2. That's when I will start to play classic again because I won't pay subscription for a 20 yo game out of principle but I would use the shop for cosmetics, maybe boost.

[@jonathankamysek7998]

honestly if the whole game ends up going free to play i suggest they put the magic spell book and abilities back to the way it was before they changed it to what i saw back when i first played it again after quite the many years

[@SchwingyGaming]

I forgot to comment when I actually watched this... Great video as ever, and I would love for free to play wow to be a thing! The biggest thing keeping me from giving it a fair chance is the pricetag and I guess the time commitment.

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

Thank you sir!! Yeah I know personally about 4 or 5 of my friends have told me that they want to try WoW but won’t because they don’t want to commit with a sub fee. Especially when I say that it’s not at its greatest potential right now…

[@SchwingyGaming]

@@AllTradesJackReviews The fact that the game isn't at it's peak is a real detractor, good point! Also, because I'm more interested in the final fantasy brand as a whole, I have to consider that maybe I would get more out of that sub fee in FFXIV. :/

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

@@SchwingyGaming oooo yeah. I still want to go back and finish the story in FFXIV

[@ItzAidenRsYT]

I am level 20 now I started the game 3 days ago. I am trying pass level 20 without subscribing Some people said I need to grind for a lot of gold to go to the auction to buy a wow token is that true?

[@JjackVideo]

It's a good point, that the world need the free to play players to fill it up.

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

I would love to see classic era have some more players. It’s fun to run group content, especially with people who are experiencing for the first time and are happy to just be exploring it.

[@CoorsyTV]

@@AllTradesJackReviews totally agree most of my firends wont give WoW a chance because of the 15$/month pricetag but f2p classic era would attract so many new players to the game.

[@quakergrits4610]

totally agree.. they're making no more updates. but they do need a team for tickets..

[@Nightstalker314]

Retail and Classic should at least open up F2P til lvl40. In Classic you get your mount and a decent amount of talent points. You've seen a lot of leveling dungeons and zones. In Retail you'd be able to use the fastest flying speed and could be teased for further leveling/the xpac via Dragonriding. It would need a massive restriction on farming/storage/gold acquisition. It is one thing to fight bots, it's another thing allowing them to thrive too fast.

[@Morlon23]

Just give a free trial for 10 days, or until lvl 20 like back in the day.

[@matthuck378]

I wish these MMOs would become purchasable single player RPGs when they are retired. Just give them a rebalance to remove all the excess grind put in to keep you logging in and paying for cash shop conveniences.

[@natecw4164]

Whitemane is so much fun right now. $15 a month keeps out many trolls, tourists and otherwise toxic players who are simply there to be toxic. I can only imagine how much F2P would ruin this game... I'd be back on a private server like *that*

[@Garox97]

6:30 As a ex player who stoped at cata just life things, I would love classic to be free to play, I have a little more time right now but still not enough to pay for sub and also Im not anymore hardcore player but they could do classic servers for free some kind of free account where you have limitations like bank size, bag size, even some auction house limitations but left classic content for free it would bring old player back and some new because I would love to show my irl friends WoW to play some adventurers again but they dont wanna pay so much without checking more content (yea its not to expensive even in my country but we have maybe 10-16h per week to play) than 20 lvl in shit reatil I wouldn't even do that to them i tried retail some time ago and it was just pain I hate what they done to wow some shit was good but for most time I feelt overwhelmed and kinda monetized and most players where those hardcore types are soo yea, they could do something like ff14 done their free play but only for classic servers.

[@communistwoman]

I was always thinking, "Why isn't classic free?" A nice x and o from Blizzard to its long-time fans and a chance for others to experience its epic journey. But your explanation is perfect, classic era is the answer. However, by the way Blizzard has been leaning, they'll make some excuse to implement microtransactions if they introduce a "free service". It's a popular topic, but we can't blame gold sellers, because gold buyers are just as much a problem. Especially those who have bought so much gold they were actively hiring players of the opposite faction to hunt and kill other players on a server-wide scale. *sigh* I can't live down the "RlSE" drama when they invaded Netherwind during the free transfers, some pompous... arrogant gamers that should have been dealt with. I made a half-assed video of the "opening the gates of AQ madness" if you want to check it out. I admit, it was a lot of fun when I look back at it, but at that time was a royal pain. Deep breaths man, deep breaths, where was I? Oh yeah, can't trust Blizzard. I guarantee you it won't be a "classic experience" once it becomes free. Although, it would give players a taste of Blizzard's monetization practices before buying the current game.😝"Some things are best left alone." Sure, spell batching was a wild attempt at making an mmo feel... laggy...old internet? Once they removed it, holy crap the game felt so much better. The chronoboons were a cool attempt to keep people from raid logging but came too late. Introducing higher exp rates during TBC's final days was interesting. An attempt to "bring players back" and it worked, sort of. It mostly brought back the fast paced, "replace the tank, he's not pulling fast enough" players. What I'm trying to get at is this, Blizzard's word is never concrete. I feel classic has turned into the WoW that caters to today's fast-paced audience, not the past. The small fanbase you see playing on classic era servers are what is so hard to find on the server I played on during WoTLK (I quit a couple weeks after launch). How long will that cherished fanbase last before Blizzard puts its grubby little hands around classic era's neck? Lengthy and sometimes off-topic, but I needed something to distract me from this migraine. Vanilla wow is like an ex you just can't get off of your mind. If they make her free, I'm scared I'll go right back to her.

[@millerdiamond708]

i want dracthyr for classic wow right tauren is the best race for now i just play tauren and worgons really thats all naga would be fun to play as they would have a cool starting zone like a all underwater world

[@Talix.]

When I was playing Rift and it went free to play the influx of players from that kept the game going strong for years to come. I think if they do a Classic+ sure make that part of the subscription, maybe even SoM season 2, but Classic Era should totally be free. It will keep people playing WoW when otherwise they might not. I just let one of my accounts subs run out and I'm about to let the second one do the same until SoM season 2 is a thing. I don't see myself playing WoW again until SoM actually, which is weird because I thought I would love Wrath.

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

Yeah I’m kind of in the same boat. But I agree I remember when Rift finally went free to play. I remember someone saying it eventually ran into cash shop problems, but it was cool to see the pop for a bit!

[@vc7363]

I'd love to experience this epic game through free to play. As one of those who lead "boring adult lives" :))) my gaming hours per week are drastically limited, so being on a paid subscription just to enjoy the game for a few hours (per month!) would never make sense, not if the price was a dollar.

[@rotainer2707]

Same thing here, it does not make sense to pay a subscription and play a few hours per week, they've lost me for a long time. From time to time i go back for a month or two to play casual. If players just stop to pay for some month, maybe they will rethink their strategy.

[@pip5528]

The $65 you're referring to only applies to retail. Classic only requires a subscription and no additional purchases. It still doesn't have any sort of free trials unlike WoW back in the day but retail is still more expensive to play than Classic. You don't even have to buy a copy of WoW and haven't had to since they changed the subscription model in 2018 to automatically give you the second newest retail expansion as long as you pay the sub fee and don't even have to buy the game once on top of that anymore. Brand new accounts can access the near-full retail game just by paying a sub and only have to buy the new expansion on top of that. For Classic you get absolutely everything with a sub. I think paying a sub to experience all 3 games is a good deal for the money and I personally play them all but it's sad that you have to get people to pay a sub just to even try Classic. The 10-day trial was a great system and they should probably have something similar for Classic and especially vanilla.

[@alexandrelefebvre1807]

Playing wow since TBC, but left it before the launch of Shadowland... won't never play again, but if Classic become free :O !! Watch me spend some nice hour on it !

[@lisafan6365]

It's the only way I would play. I'm not paying monthly when there's no GM's and little to no support.

[@storbokki371]

I thought the whole point of Blizzard starting classic servers was to attract the vanilla players playing free on other vanilla servers outside Blizzard. Classic should be free-to-play at the very least for veteran players who bought the game. I subbed all through the original wow, BC, WotLK, Cata. And I'd be fine with it being just vanilla, BC or WotLK, but not Cata that destroyed the classic zones. And they need to allow mail, chat, etc. the full vanilla experience.

[@mcfarvo]

F2P Classic Era realms could be good if monetized only with cosmetics. A "hardcore" (i.e. permadeath) mode breaths new life into WoW (ref. Kargoz et al.), but it's not everyone's style. F2P may also help people try out such a server where they may find the higher stakes to make it more gripping for them too.

[@PapaYosif]

tbh id love to play wow but its way too expensive for me for what u get i only played the free part till 15 it wasnt particularly awesome but also not boring. for about 5 bux a month id buy it but 13 is way too much for me.or maybe if they did it like in osrs where lots of shit is behind the paywall. but it doesnt make it impossible to play after a while.

[@nyxi6689]

How about making it free for anyone who has any prevouis WoW purchase, like how they released Shadowlands for free near the release of Dragonflight. It'll strike a balance between WoW players who have purchased stuff before so no bots while at the same time making them return to the game.

[@Ash-Ketchum-and-Pikachu]

I didn't care that overwatch went f2p. I only cared that they butchered it to shreds after that. Blizzard already added microtransactions to a paid sub game... might as well get rid of the 15/mo.

[@g-o-u-r]

It's time to make a petition to Microsoft to Free Classic.

[@SuperTyrannical1]

I've never been a WoW player, hoping on from time to time to see what all the fuss is about. But if they made classic F2P I would absolutely play it. The reason I don't play WoW now is because I begrudge paying a sub for a game I consider to be meh when I could just play GW2 or ESO for free. If I'm gonna pay a sub I'd rather spend that money of FF14.

[@mand0776]

For me retail has too much. I like the classic wotlk because its simple. Straight up level, quest dungeon, and repeat. I would like to do raids but I have just as much fun playing by myself or with friends just questing. I don’t care about the drama. I just love the game!

[@alexanderscout]

i honestly agree or they should atleast allow us to purchase for a lifetime game

[@Voltomess]

why would I purchase something that I did already in 2006

[@IraclisPapadopoulos]

I never got to play this game ortho i waned so bad for 2 reasons, first its not truly free to play game like LoL or so many other TOP games, and secondly i never understand what is going on exactly, like how many versions of this game exists, wow classic then some other wow title's (many) and then some expansions coming all the time like WTF is going on? even if you want to see the story or the cinematics' of the wow universe on youtube your head will explodes trying to understand what is first and what is second, like why have so many copys of the same game title or expansions (dont really know how to call it) like if i buy the latest wow expansion do i have buy all of them? the hole story game or not? i just saying that for a person that don't follow this game from the very start it is very hard to anderstand what the hell is going on.

[@verestamas3920]

Fucktivision. There will never be FTP.

[@ashwinnmyburgh9364]

I dont even need to watch further. Wow classic should be free. It is an old version of the current game. It basically could serve as an extended demo. People would probably play WoW Classic for the first time and get curiose to try the new game. Idk, maybe it is just my personal pipedream so that I could try classic Wow without needing to pay...

[@joanglo3394]

or atleast make it 5 bucks a month to ONLY play classic, Most of us dont want to play retail

[@WybremGaming]

I would play Classic Era if it was free. I don't care a bit for retail wow, it's pure garbage to me. I tried dragonlands and it's the worst xpac to date. Only people that review it positively are the leftovers from Shadowlands, needles to say, they have no standards anyway. And wrath classic same, since they deleted my TBC character basically by forcing it on wrath,. It will be forced on Cata, big no. Only thing I want is classic era, maybe classic+ or a brand new wow made by the old devs, no these token pay2win gogogogo clowns. Whichever it will be, I will never pay a subscription again, that era has gone.

[@xirt7712]

It isnt classic that needs to be free to play, WoW in its entirety needs to be free. The subscription era is dead. The box price era is also nearly dead. Try selling a first person shooter in the current year - it doesnt end well, even Activision is aware of this which is why Overwatch is free. Monetization through various means is the future. Over the next 4 years a major shift is likely to take place with large studios releasing mmo's as free to play. How quickly can ActivisionBlizzard prepare for that shift in the genre?

[@AllTradesJackReviews]

That’s interesting for sure, and I think the game can definitely be set up this way with some work. Though, I think if you make the main game free to play, it could have a shock effect on the economy of the end game which dedicated players protect like a newborn baby. It would be interesting to see what blizz could come up with in that scenario though!

[@basharqaisi2527]

all games should be free to play

[@OlorinTTV]

I would love WOW classic to go f2p

[@Avrelivs_Gold]

I don't even play pservers now because blizzard destroyed the community with their arrogance, inaction, incompetence, greed and support of idiots horrible people play this game now, that come that far that somehow even pserver admins never listen to players i am so happy to quit for past couple of years after 10 years played, even videos only make me laugh.

[@g.g.2359]

Absolute bs... you still need to be maintained and you have servers cost and maintain on top of some bare minimum support and staff to monitor things. From business pov is dumb , from player's pov is also dumb cause this means no proper maintenance and customer support and also why on earth would they run servers and pay bills for charity ? No matter how old os the game if there arent micro transactions it needs to be on subscription or u can go to private servers if u dont want to pay for decent official game. I dont even need to watch ur whole video .. its flawed no matter what ur pov is

[@FLASHING9]

Should be free.. total agree

[@harrisonlee1]

MAKE CLASSIC FREE!

[@xanosdarkpaw1]

Sure, let's make it even more attractive to botters.

[@minakatahizuru]

Never happening. And you have 0 idea who plays wow lol. And as WoW player if you dont like game from free trial you just dont like game simple as that.

Well I played wow since vanilla and I would enjoy a free to play classic. I'm done with retail since SL anyway. I won't pay subscription for a 20 yo game out of principle, plus they don't deserve it. Also I agree that they can't use classic experience as a trial because it's a totally different game from the retail.

[@Nikolaablg]

No one needs SoM or any other bullshit. Era is establishing itself as a unique community and it should stay that way. You have Wrath for a different experience.

[@davidnielsen5695]

Really dont mind paying. Anf f2p also come with moronic cashshop tradeoffs

you don't need a subscription to keep servers running for the "classic" population, it's just filling their pockets, they are morons, and they don't deserve our money, blizzard started to take players for granted and this will change when a good mmorpg will appear

[@RedDragonXPS]

I would go back if WoW was expanded for people that don't want to spend money. They will either get money or they will leave. They should sell weapons instead of subscriptions.