Over the last few weeks, we have discussed internally how to support various classic versions of WoW. Specifically the upcoming MoP and potentially future releases as well.
TLDR: We do not plan to support MoP classic. If Blizzard keeps releasing classic versions of the game, we will pick it back up in some form when they get to Legion.
It would take an enormous amount of work to create a version of the website that functions as well as retail for MoP. At that point, the game is complicated enough that the time to make the scoring functions starts to be on par with retail. We are only two people, so our development time is limited, as we are always committed to keeping the retail version of the site 100% up to date.
As we looked at the numbers of people who played Cata classic, it became apparent that our choice to not support cata classic was a sound financial decision. We would have lost money developing that version of the website. We anticipate a similar situation for MoP, even though it might be a bit more popular than Cata. Wotlk was really the peak of classic WoW, and we more or less broke even on developing that version of the site.
If classic keeps going all the way to Legion, we have some good opportunities to support that version of the game. We still have our simulator available to us for Legion, BfA, and Shadowlands. That will provide us a good starting point to make some sort of version of the site for those releases of the game. We will assess demand if that time comes. I can’t promise you will see every feature that retail has, but at least the simulator and some cool features attached to it are going to be available.
I’m sorry for those of you who were looking forward to a classic MoP version of the site. The numbers just don’t work out for us to be able to make it
We are going to remain focused on the retail version of the site and continue to improve it. The vast majority of our users play retail WoW, so that has to be our focus.
Hello, I think it really sucks that there will be no AMR in MoP although it was promised at the beginning of Cata. My guild and many friends are also disappointed about it. And I don’t understand the players at all. On Eu-Venoxis alone there are about 10 GDKP communities and they make 2 runs a day and there are certainly 100 registrations per run. Blizzard recently said that there are certainly 150k active players in Cataclysm and they expect an increase of more than 3x in MoP.
If most people who raid in classic used our website, this would be a totally different story. We’d hire someone and make sure it gets supported. In reality, only a small fraction of people who play WoW use our website.
I think we were careful in saying that we hoped to support MoP and would look into it as it approached, but we didn’t promise it. If we made it sound like a promise, I apologize. We learned a long time ago that everything takes twice as long as we want it to, so over-promising is not a good idea.
I don’t think people would be interested in paying for a version of the site for MoP that doesn’t work as well as the retail site. Back when we had the site up in MoP, it was a lot different. It was an ad-supported reforge optimizer. Updating it to what our modern site does is a total re-write.
With anniversary re-release assuming they are planning on doing the whole lap of expansions again every few years would it make sense to work on the missing expansions for their inevitable re-release. (even if it meant waiting till they loop back around and not get it the first time like this mop release)
I think we had TBC support right im assuming that will come back when it re-launches and wotlk of course is already there
We can re-enable the TBC version of the site at any time if Blizzard puts a server up again. We have learned to make sure we can put up expansion-specific versions of the site at any time going forward.
As far as developing a cata, MoP, and WoD version of the site for a potential second release of them… I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen. I guess anything is possible - we are constantly experimenting with techniques to improve the site and develop it more efficiently.
