Personally, I don’t think they knew what to expect anyway. Many people (like me) didn’t buy CE because they had no vested interest in the game from the outset. Their production numbers were way low, probably because of their own expectations.
Today, I’d simply put the two pets in a Classic Only part of the Store and allow us to buy them at will. It would help defray the cost, and the only people who would complain are the ones who had the Retail CE and want some sort of elitism to flow from that.
The issue present today is the “authentic experience” after the initial launch window for NA, was scarcity. For Classic, the problem is that purchase has two issues.
The first is concern that those CE pets from Classic will eventually “bleed over” into retail. Basically the exact same slippery slope argument that #nochanges is making against everything, only in reverse.
The second is that if they make it available, even if they time restrict it, there is a very real chance that people are going to buy them, even if they have no intention of playing Classic, simply because of issue #1 above. In addition, there is no shortage of people who wouldn’t mind buying them if offered. End result is those “unique in game pets” will not be unique at all, even a year later, because every 3rd or 4th person is going to have it. That’s not authentic either.
Gray area. I bought a CE which had in-game rewards, but your account is flagged for those rewards. Specifically, my ACCOUNT was flagged before I ever logged into the game.
The “carry-over” people want is literally getting something in-game and carrying it over to retail. Like mogs, etc.
Your ACCOUNT was FLAGGED BEFORE you logged into the game the first time. Your CE pets are part of your ACCOUNT. Not your toons, not your mogs, not your gear, your mounts, your weapons. Your ACCOUNT.
The whole “you can’t share items” question from last year was about mogs, etc. Now you’re adding the word “unlocked” into the mix? Nuh-uh. That’s moving the goalposts.
Huh? It’s true. What you get in one game doesn’t translate to the other. That means pets, mounts, titles, weapons, armor, etc. There’s no transmog in Classic, so no you can’t unlock things to use in the other game.