That’s based on the assumption that people only play one version of the game though.
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The one quitting clearly isn’t. Those who subscribe to play Classic aren’t really playing Retail, and the ones who play Classic, from Retail, are more than likely already paying for microtransactions.
correct this is why they need hostages for TBC MTX to work, because if you’re allowed to escape to Era then how are are they suppose to extract the sweet sweet profits from you?
Further, if you’re a true Vanilla enjoyer and they let you transfer, then you’re going to move your “progression” to an era server right? Well if they do that then they only have you on the hook for maybe 1 / 2 months before you run into the naxx loot wall and you give up on full BiS and settle for “mostly BiS”…
However if they force you to fully re-roll then they have you for quite a lot longer on subscription.
The overall best profits for blizz is to stuff every one that’s on Anniversary into TBC and the very few who totally quit are not worth worrying about.
It’s sounds like what you’re saying is actually paid transfers are the best option.
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Paid transfer is the lowest income option, this is why they disabled it because the Vanilla Enjoyers will just re-roll and that’s a 100% chance to get 1 to 60 play in addition to some pre raid and more than likely Molten Core into Naxx. Because GDKP is a very common raid mode, the openness of Raid in Classic Era does open the doors for a lot of players who would not get to raid on “bad specs” in Anniversary wow.
They disabled paid transfers in Era because the realms are merged 
Oh sorry linked.
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They’re not as you think. There are realm clusters, example Whitemane is a Cluster, Mankirk is a Cluster, players from Mankirk cannot play with players from Whitemane other than in Battlegrounds.
The post they made is not very well written or the poster was ignorant of the situation. There are 4 or 5 clusters for Classic Era and they’re basically their own servers in the same way the merged servers are in Retail. The only difference is we don’t have cross realm invite power on Era.
They disabled paid transfers between the clusters fully, and this has both positive and negative effect. Negaitive that you cannot move from say Whitemane to Grobbulus for RP, but positive that if you do make a new character on example Grobbulus then you can then contribute a fresh character for world buffs for raids and stuff.
The lack of quality information on these forums in respect to what is possible VS what is not is painful.
Yes, gold and resources that are not from Era don’t belong on Era.
SoD and retail toons also should not be allowed to clone to Era with their gold.
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If they do allow clones from anniversary to Era than they must also allow clones the other way - from era to anniversary.
If that doesn’t feel fair to anniversary players, then maybe you understand why Era doesn’t want stuff from outside dumped onto it.
No they won’t.
Too many people are hooked on the wowcrack.
Instead of having a bunch of sparsely populated/dead servers, there should just be 1 PvP/PvE server for each expansion up to WoTLK. You pick where you want to be. Get tired of 60? Transfer to TBC or WoTLK. Get tired of 80? Start over.
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And nothing will change on Era so that is a positive.
Also blizzard will reduce the number of people loading the anniversary servers while also selling them gold so this is a double win for them.
Sounds like a peofit margin increase.
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SoM characters + Gold + SoM specific items are on Era.
I’d be okay with that.
There’s probably people on Era that would like to play TBC.
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