Features like these made gold wow classic most early incarnation more societal and 15 years ago they helped lay the basis for some of my life's most enduring friendships.
Yet it is important to remember that Classic isn't a hard reset--a reboot that gives us a new game with storylines with content patches. So far Classic seems as though it will be the World of Warcraft we knew all those years back with about the exact same patch schedules and battle class nerfs, although ideally with fewer bugs.
It is no doubt favorite, as the massive login queues of last night and Twitch figures affirm: At one stage, find themselves slaughtered by Hogger and more than one million people tuned into see people slaughter 30-50 feral hogs.
On Blizzard's end, it looks like surrender, or at least the closing of a door.
Nothing has retained WoW relevant so much in adapting itself to play styles, and changing tastes, audiences.
Occasionally Blizzard will encounter buy wow classic gold layout as it did with some of the progression mechanics at the current Battle for Azeroth expansion or the garrisons at 2014's Warlords of Draenor, but it usually manages to redeem itself with a followup patch (as it mostly does with the most recent Rise of Azshara content drop in the main game).