It stands to reason that part of this is that retail players are either too young to have played the original xpacs, or played them and decided that they like the direction WoW has taken. So classic isn't even a blip in their minds.
Classic players are overwhelmingly people who once played retail but either quit, or play less now, as they see it missing something that classic has. Their opinion of one game directly impacts the game they choose to play.
That's ignoring the subset of people who play and enjoy both though.
Let's be real here, that's just a WoW player thing in general. I hate to be the "both sides" guy, but you'd be shocked how quick some players will jump to defend retail over the tiniest implication that maybe Classic WoW has some positives that retail doesn't.
I will say that Classic WoW players probably do it more, but I think that's because that version of the game doesn't get as much attention as retail does. In fact, I'd argue that the general animosity of Classic players towards Retail has actually gone down since SoD came out, but maybe that's just my perspective.
The reddit community is far better about that, I'll admit. It's the Twitter community that seems to do the bulk of the complaining, though, now that I think about it, that might be less of it being a WoW thing and more of it just Twitter being awful.
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u/Heatinmyharbl 2d ago
I hate the phrase "rent free" but it really does apply with classic players and retail lol