I’m stoked for TBC, but I remember when Classic was first discussed, there was discussion of a Classic Plus, where once the final vanilla patch was applied, they’d continue to give some new content. Is that still a thing?
It’s going to happen at some point. Once an appropriate level of turn over occurs they’re definitely going to release some form of classic/tbc/wotlk again.
It will work something like this tbc --> 2.5 years later wotlk --> 2.5 to 5 years later clsasic + --> 2.5 years later TBC plus —> 2.5 years later wotlk plus
They are unlikely to go into cata or beyond. But this cycle of content will keep people coming back to the game for quite some time.
It was never more than an idea passed around the community, and a very controversial one at that. They won’t mess with vanilla Classic as their policy has been #nochanges for vanilla Classic, which they have said quite literally on multiple occasions.
Classic+ was a player created idea that Blizzard never took seriously, nor even made any mention of it being a possibility. It truly was, never a thing.