surely there was to be someone ought there like me who came here for tbc classic and was both disappointed and angry with how actiblizzard treated tbc classic as a giant cash grab for whales and then cut and ran when the money started drying up and cut many of the tiers short by months. i joined for a chance to progress through the raid tiers just like any other expansion and feel like i got robbed of that experience by about anywhere from 1-4 months.
furthermore i didn’t even know about the whole 2 weeks to level up until it was too late because of the confusing way they presented the article on it. i thought it was only for classic players from vanilla classic and hence didn’t actually start until may 26 when someone on mmo-c forums told me it was for everyone and blood elves as well. lastly i have little interest in wrath classic i already raided in wrath and i dislike the aesthetics of the tiers and the questing sets and strongly prefer the colors of tbc that are bright and shiny with cool animations. only tier 10 in wrath has that. the fact that blizz is forcing us into wrath regardless of if we want to or not is the final insult on top of the open wound.
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I’d be content to remain in TBCC with Dual Spec and Behsten/Slahtz.
ALAS!
same here i want at least a chance to raid sunwell since it has my favorite atmosphere being sin’dorei themed. second only to black temple because of its orchestral music. atm my guild is farming mt hyjal and about to move on to black temple.
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I am sure there is someone else, but honestly your likely part of a really small minority. Most everyone I see pretty much can not wait for Wrath Classic.
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Same. Hated the cash grab. Hate the rushed content phases. Running a guild is a 2nd full time job, I don’t get any time to enjoy the rest of the game, and because they cut BT in half I’ll probably never see Warglaives drop. Even if I did, at this point there will be no time to enjoy it and actually play the game with it.
You new to classic? They were never going to be as long as they were back in 2006-2008
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Original TBC lasted for 665 Days including its pre-patch.
So assuming for a 4-week pre-patch that hits Aug 9th (don’t know when the pre-patch would be)
Classic TBC will last for 462 Days. So yeah it was cut a bit, but Classis has always been a faster release schedule than the original timeline because there isn’t a ton of development that needs to be done. That being said I’m also entirely of the opinion that Classic is meant to bring back in players who may have quit for reasons outside of the game itself, bring them back up to retail, and then transfer all of their characters there once the expansion release would match up.
You do realize that the only reason for a public company to do anything is money, right? Classic exists merely to make money since they destroyed retail and had to invest a nominal amount to dust off an old asset and squeeze more money out of it. Why did you think it existed? I would expect more monetization from WOW at this point, because it is on life support and they will do anything to get as much blood from the stone as possible.
You and 24 like minded friends can pause their experience gain and stay at 70 in wotlk.
I don’t feel like the patches were rushed, it felt right. Right before running the content on farm starts to feel like a slog, the next raid is released. The only slog was actually P1 to P2 timing. But once P2 started rolling, it was a pretty good tempo.
You think they will really go beyond Wrath? I just don’t see it.
That’s coool, but the OP feels differently. Neither of you are wrong, on a personal level ofc.
and why not it is free money for no work. They would be stupid not to.
100% true. You can remain in TBC as long as you want.
Just seems strange at that point. But then, I’m biased, nothing about that xpac interests me.
I don’t see it as strange the silent majority that doesn’t abhor retail for whatever reason will continue to play and as a company Blizzard isn’t going to be like “We don’t want your money because the vocal minority doesn’t want you to have the future expansions”
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First I was annoyed by how rushed they do the phases, but in the end it’s summer which means less people play by default, guilds disbanding cause of roster boss and no new players returning if there is nothing in sight but sunwell plateau patch months after.
Having summer paired with wotlk beta + prepatch + late summer release of wotlk is the perfect advertisement to not have the game fall from 300k raiders to 150k for 6 more months and actually keep players hooked and also new players in.
In a money point of view that is smart, rushed but smart. I like tbc too but what can you do. Nothing. Hope for more time in wotlk.
Edit: I also would like my tbc char to be on an era realm. Not to play it, just to have it. Era is more of a museum anyway.
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I don’t feel there is a majority at all on either opinion. Everyone seems to have a different perspective on what they like in these games. Also, a lot of folks that don’t play retail don’t despise it. It just doesn’t interest them.
Me too. 
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Well, can’t speak for anyone else but I’ve been salivating for wrath classic since classic was launched (3 years now). Classic vanilla was crappy and classic tbc was meh. Just give us wrath already, enough of this 3 year waiting room.
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This. WotLKC was the ONLY reason I came back to this soul-sucking game. A whole lot of self-loathing accrued with every day spent in TBCC getting prepared will at last be justified the moment my ship makes port in Howling Fjord!
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Yet Blizz apologists will claim things like LFD are cut to preserve the “stop and smell the roses slow experience” that the “spirit of Classic” is all about.
welcome to classic lol we knew this before classic TBC
I thought when the Classic thing was announced Blizz would have a few servers for each expansion so people could stay in the era they loved
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