The big problem is the current development team. Can we get even remotely close to trusting those idiots to not absolutely ruin it? They’re just as likely to add cash motorcycle mounts and playable rainbow striped teddy bears to classic+.
TBC fanbois get a clue. Not all of us want it. Just because you like something and want something doesn’t mean everyone does. Use your brain. I understand. I really do. You want your stupid flying mounts. You want to chase druids around a pillar all day. I get it. I hope your dreams come true booboo. I really do.
So you’re saying Classic+ would be a different game altogether and separate from Classic that continues Classic, but in a different direction than where retail went?
While that would be a more acceptable solution, I don’t see it happening. The demand for BC and WotLK is high. That would be a much more profitable path for Blizzard to take.
I’d also be concerned for the fracturing of the community, but that’s a concern with BC and WotLK I suppose as well. I think with separate BC and WotLK servers we would have a much much lower vanilla Classic population, but hopefully still enough to have a few healthy servers.
I respect the players who do not want a progression to TBC. It is not any more a split to the community than having WOW Classic has been from Retail. (Empty Retail servers? That’s not new, and it’s not WOW Classic doing that. WOW Classic doubled the community for now.)
Personally, I want to play both, because expansion-free WOW and TBC are really two very different experiences, but both games I love.
I even hope they do go to Wrath Classic eventually, though I have no interest in playing. I burned out on raiding then, I hated achievements, I hated Winterspring being ‘in the way’ so badly, and that zone under Dalaran being pretty much empty of value.
It would be the same drama as in the two weeks leading up to WOW Classic release. So what? Also, name drama tends to dissipate as people give up, get another name, and get actually playing. Not like PvP drama which never goes away.
If you think faction pop ratio is bad now, what about if Blood Elves were available? What’s the point of PvP servers at that point?
TBC would introduce server pop problems as well for classic servers for people that leave for a TBC server. How do they compensate? would they give free transfers? doubtful.
Classic didn’t cause a split in the community. Stop trying to spin that falicious narrative. Classic brought back people who werent even playing.
Its the same thing with TBC and wrath. Some people who are not playing are specifically not playing because WoW does not offer a game they want to play.