As many are aware, Blizzard Entertainment recently announced that they will be launching “Classic World of Warcraft” on August 27, 2019. This made reverberations across the PC gaming community, and other gaming companies have also taken notice. Often being cited as the version of the game that first hooked fans of the dominant MMORPG that is WoW, Classic promises to resurrect the older version of the game in all its glory, and bugs. Many self-proclaimed “old-school” gamers have begun stocking up on Mountain Dew in preparation for the launch and await it with bated breath.
CCP Games is one of the companies that is keenly aware of how well received the announcement was and began plans to immediately begin working on similar projects. In a brief but candid interview, CCP Falcon had this to say: “We’re well aware that a large part of both our current and former community are asking for the ability to step back in time, much as the Warcraft community will be doing come August, and believe me when I say that EVE players won’t be disappointed with our current work.” That brief statement was given to us a few weeks back, but just a few moments ago CCP dropped the bombshell that was their full announcement. Users across every form of social media were going mad with hype and adoration. Markee Dragon, in particular, has been a standout; they have tweeted full character posts fifteen separate times and has created numerous threads on Reddit proclaiming their undying love and loyalty for CCP at such an announcement.
The full statement is as follows:
Dear fans both new and old, today we bring you an announcement that many of you have requested for years, and we are overjoyed to do so. As many of you are aware, several large gaming companies have been implementing ways for their old-guard players to go back and revisit the past. Jagex has been extremely successful, and truly a forerunner of such things with their “Old School” servers. Recently, Blizzard announced, “Classic WoW” will be dropping in just a few months.
Due to these successful ventures, we’ve begun to see your calls for a return to the old days in a different light. So it is with great pride and honor that I come to you today to announce: The jukebox is returning. Our engineers are hard at work digging the lines of code from the deepest recesses that are known as the POS code. As you all know, in order to implement a new feature, or in this case bring back an old feature, we will have to sacrifice a current feature in order to make it all work. This is why the Alliance Tournament had to go.
Currently, the only track we’ve recovered was a hidden track that one of the developers snuck in to test the feature back in its first implementations. The song is Eurobandið – Fullkomið líf. At current estimates the patch containing the jukebox will be released by the end of the year, so stay tuned!
Still a better feature than anything they’ve done in five years.