Why does the WOW community love Vanilla so much?

Because they arguably added too much stuff. Vanilla WoW was just... WoW. Get to level 60, and have fun along the way with your 8 available races. Nothing overcomplicated. A pretty standard MMORPG.

Then Burning Crusade came along, increased the cap to a reasonable 70, gave us Draenei and Blood Elves, and everyone loves it. The first official expansion and it was fantastic.

Wrath of the Lich King, probably the most well loved of the expansions comes out, introduces a Hero Class, increases the cap once again to 80, and brings a bunch of new and great stuff with it, not too many drastic changes.

Then Cataclysm, which people weren't huge fans of, but I forget the actual reasons behind it.

Then everyone decided to get cranky over Pandren finally coming to WoW, even though they were in the original Warcraft games. The expansion brought some beautiful music and environments to the game, so I think people were just complaining about Pandas because they didn't know their Warcraft.

Draenor brought Garrisons, people liked it, others didn't.

Legion came, ruined my Shaman, but revamped all of the classes in some way. Brought another Hero Class, and went by pretty quickly, now that I think about it.

And now we're waiting for Battle for Azeroth and Classic.

Essentially it stopped being a game where having a faction mattered. You were committed to the Alliance or the Horde, and it used to be a struggle for dominance. But as time has gone on, it's become more about outside threats trying to destroy the world/take it over/something else villainous.

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