I’m sorry but it’s not up to you to decide what is and isn’t Classic, it might not be A classic to you and others but it is Classic just like how Dragonflight is called Retail the progression servers are called Classic, simple.
Okay so let’s see what Cataclysm has in common with retail…
- Transmog
- Revamped Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor
- Flying in Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor
- The new Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor quests
- Worgen and Goblins
Think that’s about it, not counting reforging because that’s not in retail.
Then you haven’t been paying attention, here are the reasons why I think we’re not getting WotLK Era servers…
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/why-i-believe-were-not-getting-wotlk-era-servers
No it’s not, a lot more people stayed than left which would mean more people enjoyed it than those that didn’t. Just because something starts with say, 1,000,000 and it goes down to 800,000 doesn’t mean that the product was bad overall. It just means that some didn’t like it, some had IRL issues and some simply didn’t have enough time to play anymore.
WoW was bound to have a massive fall in subs, this is my own personal belief but I think WoW was in a bubble during TBC > WotLK, Vanilla is when it started to form and it simply popped in Cataclysm.
Well you’d be surprised to know that those private servers need money to function so the admins actually do have a “token” in place for gold so that you can cover their server costs. There are also WotLK servers that have custom classes ect. so if you want a server where nothing like that is happening you’d be better off just playing by yourself.
I enjoyed Vanilla Classic, I enjoyed TBC, I enjoyed WotLK and I bet I’m going to enjoy Cataclysm.