Is there any chance of a BC classic server? Am I the only one who would like that?
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BC has to be one of the most disappointing gaming experiences I’ve ever had.
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Yep.
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No you are not the only one who wants that. I was so angry at Blizzard for stabbing us in the back with the TBC era betrayal that I almost quit WoW forever. I never would have started playing Classic if I knew they were going to force our characters into WotLK a SECOND time. My characters there will rot at level 70 forever because I’ll never touch them again. I’d rather play retail only than be on their dumb Classic treadmill. We were supposed to be able to pick the Classic expansion we wanted to stay in forever, but they only kept that promise for vanilla fans.
TBC was the best of all the early expansions. I have not been impressed by anything since besides Legion.
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BC is like old hairy balls. Nobody likes that.
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I still stand by my stance that no expansions are good.
I don’t know how you guys could be so misguided as to think that TBC Classic would happen and then that would be the only expansion that they’d do.
I’m asking you to open your eyes to Blizzard’s current marketing strategy.
They are just milking the hype train.
In the same way that the original game released in 2004 was designed to prey on the reward system of the human brain, so is the current content release timeline at Blizzard Entertainment. The retail-playing population has a very short attention span and they know it and manipulate that constantly to maintain their grip on peoples’ wallets.
What they should’ve done was create a separate subscription for WoW Classic, so that the Classic and Retail communities would be separated, except for those people who chose to pay for both.
This would’ve allowed for a more dedicated classic community (similar to successful private servers) and helped to prevent the mass influx, login queues, etc which eventually resulted in many servers going dead from Phases 3 to 6. But the current iteration of Blizzard is more focused on obtaining profit by force, as opposed to creating a great product, which in turn results in a large and healthy community around that product, which finally reaps many rewards, including free advertising and record profits.
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No one though they would stop at TBC Classic. We thought they’d give us the option to clone our characters and/or stay in TBC when WotLK Classic came out, just like they said was going to happen when they announced the whole cloning/era system.
Agreed that classic and retail being tied together as one sub was a huge, obvious mistake. Also they should have not charged for character cloning… that was ridiculously greedy of them, and all it did was make them wrongly believe there was not enough interest in era servers existing at all.
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There have been a number of others that posted/created topics since it was determined there would be no TBC “Era” server/servers.
Keep asking if it is important to you. Blizz says they are listening and taking in the feedback here. It is not my favorite period of the game but I do know others that love it.
Let me ask you (and others) a hypothetical question:
If Blizzard put out another seasonal server that was based in the TBC era (rather than in “vanilla” as the inaugural season), would you play it?
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No. Plenty of us would have liked a TBC era realm. It is still baffling that it was not done.
Vanilla and TBC are my 2 favorite versions of the game and its odd to only see vanilla and wotlk as current options.
The people that say no one wants it or its a bad game are the same ones who would have said this about classic 5 years ago but have sat here and played it for 3 years straight now.
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Seasonal? No. Just want a perma server up like the vanilla ones. 
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honestly I would look to the changes made to wrath era with catchup gear being added to tbc era. But I would hope for one, while if I am being honest now is the worst time to add a tbc era or a som2 which will progress to tbc era. The best time would be after trial of the champion.
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I would also like the opportunity to advance my classic characters as the original game was played. Yes, on 1 hand, I wanted to relive the old game and learn some of the story lines I missed in the beginning and play the game from the beginning all over again. I was like 3 expansions in, back in the day before I realized there was a bunch if the storyline I missed in the beginning. I was excited when they announced a classic option. I didn’t realize that I was going to be stuck in it forever at level 60. I am a charter member, although there have been lapses in play for a few months here and there as life gets in the way. I pretty much play by myself and enjoy the down time by completing quests. I do not belong to a guild and I don’t have many “friends” on WOW. I have purchased all the expansions up to an including the new dragon one. But I have never played it as I feel that there is too much of the story that I have missed. Truth be told, I would have been better off in the very beginning just purchasing the expansions when I was ready, vs when they came out. I would consider rebuying expansions if they were a reasonable price at the time I was ready for them. I don’t think paying $65 to over $100 is fair given that I’ve already purchased them as well as paid to play WOW for almost 20 years now. I think that deserves some consideration not only to me but others like me that have been long standing patrons.
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i can’t even imagine the kind of oddball you’d have to be to prefer TBC over both vanilla AND wrath. there’s no market for this. you’re a niche of a niche 
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If they were to ever make a “TBC era” then they would be obligated to also make an era server for every single expansion… which is a terrible idea. We don’t need 10+ different era servers. Just classic.
Maybe some seasonal servers can progress from Classic to TBC at some point. The progression is the fun part, not the permanence.
Why wasnt TBC liked? I didnt play classic TBC
These forums considered TBC the best version of wow not so long ago.
no we didn’t
A big part of the idea of classic is picking one of the earlier versions of the game you enjoy. Some people are asking what happens at the end of wotlk with their characters if only wotlk is what they came back to play.
Personally I always anticipated “Classic” being the first 3 expansions with little changes and “legacy” realms to choose which of the 3 to play.
They are a large company they can pick and choose what realms and expansions to host based on demand they are not obligated to do anything.
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It is true that TBC fanboism has diminished a lot since actually playing it again.
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They chose classic and only classic.
TBC will never have anywhere near the same demand as Classic. And classic has, at most, like 500 players online. TBC would be truly dead.
Brother there are more than 100 people in barrens alone on my server cluster in classic. 500 seem like a super low number.
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