Should WoW Classic become WoW Remastered? from wisepowder's blog

Should WoW Classic become WoW Remastered?

There are changes being made to both of those games, but WoW Classic was never intended to be a remaster the way those games (and other games) are. I now find myself wondering — would players accept WoW Classic with the updated models and art assets of the modern game? I’m not arguing for changing the world — leave Azeroth as it was, all the content removed by the launch of Cataclysm should be there, Naxx 40 should remain unchanged — but looking at the remasters, those are getting completely updated art and will look much better than they did on release. Diablo 2 looks like a 21 year old game, after all.To get more news about buy wow classic gold, you can visit lootwowgold official website.

And WoW Classic looks like a 16 year old game. We’ve seen character models and art assets update over the years — why not bring those graphical improvements into WoW Classic, now that we’ve made the step of adding a way to preserve buffs for players who were forced to log off to do so? Would it hurt the game to look better? I don’t have a definitive answer to this, because I am cognizant that WoW Classic isn’t and was never intended to be the kind of game that Diablo 2: Resurrected is — but I look at how that game is preserving all the old gameplay but adding a shared stash because players will just make mule alts if they don’t, and how that is similar to how the Chronoboon Displacer just lets players do what they are going to do anyway in a very similar way, and I wonder — should WoW Classic feel more like a remaster of the original game instead of trying to pretend to be what it isn’t and can’t ever be?
I don’t think I’d support changes like adding Titan’s Grip to Classic Era servers, but getting rid of the giant flipper hands that every male model in old Azeroth seemed to have? That doesn’t seem bad to me. Turning WoW Classic into a remastered version of the original game with seamless improvements and small tweaks that just accept that players are going to do these things one way or another seems fitting — players will log out to preserve those buffs, so why not make it so they don’t have to?

As recently as two days ago, I would have entirely opposed this idea. I had to play WoW when the models looked like they had shovels for hands, why should WoW Classic players get the pretty modern models? But it ends up feeling selfish and mean spirited on my part. If players are enjoying WoW Classic for itself, why not give them little fixes, little tweaks? Why not let them play a video game in 2021 that looks like a game in 2021?