Despite the fact that TBC is a continuation of Vanilla, they’re entirely separate servers for players who want TBC exclusively. Not all Classic players want TBC. That’s why it’s important for everyone to start fresh for the sake of separation and a healthy economy: fresh characters, fresh economy, fresh leveling to 70.
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As we discussed, in all of the options I presented classic players can continue playing classic. I’m not interested in forcing anyone to TBC, but at the same time people should be allowed to continue all of their characters into TBC if they want just like how original TBC was.
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The idea of forcing people who want to progress into tbc to start over again at level 1 is downright absurd and simply won’t happen lol. There will be character transfers of some sort in the equation. It’s pretty obvious honestly.
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Yeah i’m not really sure why people think this would even be a possibility.
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Let them start over. Let them eat cake.
They will probably force a character transfer, otherwise gold is duplicated. You’ll need to decided if you want to continue on to TBC or not. Then Blizzard could merge classic servers for those who want to remain in classic, or even start fresh classic realms.
11 people. More like 70% of the population.
I think we should keep servers as they are, and launch 2.0 and beyond.
If folks want to preserve a “classic” toon, they could copy their characters to a “exclusively classic” realm.
This would preserve the way things originally worked, while allowing those who want to preserve the level 60 cap, without trashing the overall experience.
They could not do it.
/handled
I’m convinced the people that want fresh TBC servers are die hard classic fanboys who are terrified their servers will be empty. They hope if Blizzard makes playing TBC as miserable as possible people won’t leave their servers.
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That’s really the impression that I get as well.
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I would like it if you choose when to copy the character over to a TBC server. No BoE or crafting material… just your equipped gear and a flat 50g.
I don’t want broken Classic economies to taint TBC at launch.
In TBC players did not lose all their gold just because a new expansion hit. There is no reason that should happen for classic TBC.
TBC was designed with that in mind though. That’s why epic flying cost 5000 g. Why would we deviate from the orginal TBC progression model of vanilla > TBC. The economy will get inflated by gold farmers anyway, you are just delaying the inevitable at the expense of casual players time.
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Everyone ive met in game is playing classic for the feeling of progression through to wotlk, not one person said “nah, when tbc comes out I wanna stay in naxx”. I even think tbc will bring even more people who didn’t feel like playing classic but would love to play tbc. New players would Def offset the few quitters.
What about template characters instead of copies?
TBC servers would start you with a level 60 character with epic mount and professions of your choice.
You don’t have to start over. No issue with economy breaking copy exploits.
If you’ve ever played a beta for retail then it’s sort of like that but, obviously, with differences.
If you want it to be a copy rather than a transfer, it needs to be one time per account, one time per server, or have a very long cooldown.
Otherwise you could transfer all your gold and valuables to one character, copy the character to the TBC servers. Then transfer all that gold and valuables to a different character and copy that character. Suddenly you’ve duplicated your gold.
You should’ve kept reading. 
Right below the headers it explains in more detail for each option.
they can start over.
there are people with no interest in classic but dont want to be way behind when tbc comes out
at the very least there should be some fresh realm with no copys or60 transfers. tbc had that back in the day too
Lol just because you’re too lazy to go ahead and level 1-60 doesn’t mean everyone should lose all their hard work pre tbc.