WoW Classic "Bug" List Has Fans Fighting With Blizzard and Their Memories

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WoW Classic "Bug" List Has Fans Fighting With Blizzard and Their Memories

Despite the runaway success of World of Warcraft Classic, Blizzard Entertainment is finding out that nostalgia can be an uneven foundation. Classic takes WoW back to its launch era, reproducing the original game on top of Blizzard's current server and engine technology. Engineers ran Classic alongside the original code to make sure that "every blade of grass is exactly like it was". For Classic, Blizzard is trapped, with one foot on each side of huge chasm: attempting to preserve the original working order of WoW, while fixing actual bugs.To get more news about buy gold wow classic, you can visit lootwowgold official website.

The thing is, nostalgia is based on memories, and memories are imperfect. WoW Classic is running against players' 15-year old memories in this case; some of those memories came from later patches and expansions, while others are completely misremembered. This divergence has led to players logging bugs during the WoW Classic beta that weren't actually bugs. To tackle this issue, Blizzard created the "Not A Bug" list on the official WoW forums.
As we’ve discussed before, the nature of WoW Classic sometimes invokes different memories for different players, and this leads to certain misconceptions for some about what is or isn’t working as intended. The following is a list of commonly-reported gameplay in WoW Classic that is not actually a bug, and is working as we expect it to," wrote WoW community manager Randy 'Kaivax' Jordan back in May.

Since then, Blizzard has dutifully added to the list. The latest addition to the list came a few days ago, involving issues with off-hand attacks, item drop rates, the summoning of a Warlock's Infernal. For example, one issue reported by players involves Practice Dummies in the Undercity not working like Training Dummies in modern World of Warcraft. "Practice Dummies in the Undercity cannot be attacked. There are no 'Training Dummies' in WoW Classic," says part of the recent update. That illustrates the difference between reality and nostalgia; Training Dummies didn't go live in World of Warcraft until the third expansion, Wrath of the Lich King.

"We have these memories. 'Oh, I think that this thing was like this.' That certainly drives our passion, and the emotional memories are what drives us towards what feels good and right," WoW Classic technical lead Brian Birmingham told USgamer back in May, "but when you get down into the nitty gritty details, sometimes you remember something and it was actually from early Burning Crusade."
More interesting is the intense amount of pushback within the Not a Bug thread. Players are literally fighting with Blizzard over the foundations of WoW Classic. Some are even arguing that Blizzard doesn't actually know vanilla WoW, and certain reproduced mechanics should be fixed in the name of balance.

"I sincerely believe there is no dev at Blizzard now who knows how the game originally worked. They have no idea at all how the classes were supposed to function. They are clueless and can only be guided by the notes left by the original dev team. Apparently, these are not complete and Blizzard’s present Classic team are at least giving it a try," said WoW forum user Velara, in regard to the recent additions to the list.

"Some people have been waiting for years for Classic to come out and it's an outrage that this is not a bug," added WoW forum user Inthmix. "This bug is so game breaking that it honestly makes almost every single other class useless in raid or impossible to even compete against warriors. Why is Blizzard on a hellbent conquest to make the game so goddamn easy and overpowered for Warriors?"