also you assume everyone who plays a private server for free would PAY for classic. and that’s not the case. the amount of private servers that have had people (not just classic but there are even current stuff as servers as well) a lot of them say they play the private server because it’s “free.” which is one of the main reasons they include everything but the most recent expansion in the base game in retail right now.
you were that dude that said edge masters were bad. LOL!
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that had nothing at all to do what he said and was just you throwing a logical fallacy at him as if what you said wasn’t just trolling. lol.
Not everyone, but a good amount would. And the people who wouldn’t aren’t here so why are you arguing with the people in this thread who WOULD pay for it lol. I mean, the only reason why we can actually post here is because we are still subbed right? 
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he’s saying 10k guaranteed. but unless the cost of that private server is $15 a month he’s talking out of his rear. that’s my point. 
Ya I agree 100%
Not everyone that is playing on a private server would pay for Classic. You are also assuming that this is the only player base available for Classic. That’s just not the case.
Sounds like you are talking out of “your rear” as you put it.
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where are all these people that didn’t pay for classics original run that will magically show up to go through endless F R E S H?
But…they…did? What?
Where are you getting off that these people didn’t pay for Classic the first time around?
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Hahaha. I said I would not require an orc using axes to wear edgemasters. You might need to slow down on the OT kool aid. Your dear leader didn’t even understand how hit cap worked in the game when I was a member.
the classic population as it is now is x amount. y amount of those will go to tbc. if you assume that the entire population of private servers aren’t the only potential new people (and they will all pay, which is no guarantee) then where are the other people coming from that weren’t here at classics launch to go through the initial play through that will somehow be interested in just running through fresh 9745934753485 times? you just said “You are also assuming that this is the only player base available for Classic. That’s just not the case.” where do these people come from? they’re not people initially interested in classic or private server people. who exactly are you talking about right now with this?
Are you going to offer anything useful to the discussion or are you going to contribute the same amount of usefulness that you did to my guild back when you were in it? Please stop trolling the discussion. This is a good topic that Blizzard needs to seriously consider for the longevity and health of WoW overall.
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this is the 2nd time today you stalked the guild you hate so much lol.
you made a fool of yourself and you still cant let that go. HA!
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classic of any sort is a niche. fresh vanilla classic is a niche of a niche. retail makes the most money as it has the biggest population plus all sorts of extras you can buy. retail servers can also hold 100s of thousands of people on them due to how large they are and how sharding works. neither of those things exist in classic.
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What? First of all…absolutely NOT. Retail servers cannot support 100,000+ players.
Second…what the heck is the point of this reply? No one is asking for 100,000+ players on a single server for Classic.
This completely contradicts your “no one will play Classic FRESH” stance.
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look at the raiderio website for just the server illdian. there are 100k+ that show up just for that one server. vs inforgepro which shows like 4k for the largest servers. unless you think that people have 50 alts they’re doing high keys on consistently on illidian.
edit that only counts people who are doing high end content, for both.
That’s not a single server. Server as in the hardware server.
Illidan the REALM is supported my multiple SERVERS(hardware).
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I just really think there’s a great opportunity for both Blizz and the playerbase. If they set up precedents for “waves” of progressive servers, sort of like the EQ progression servers. If they manage to find a way to set that up now, I think it would increase WoW’s lifespan like ten-fold at least. And WoW would continue to be a great cash cow for them with minimal effort, while players who like all different expansions would still be happy and would be willing to keep subbing, because they can play the WoW that they like.
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Draenei’s still considered space goats or can we get in on this cow fight? Both can be milked. Allegedly.
you knew what i meant and are arguing semantics. that’s also just showing people who try hard and do keys. what about the vast majority of people on each server who don’t do those things and just putz around in the world? that REALM is what i was talking about. vs the biggest classic REALM. and there are many many many of those REALMS that exist on retail. and very few of the largest size on classic.
my point you’re avoiding is that classic is a niche and retail is where they make most of their money. that other person is acting like fresh classic will somehow be some huge money maker for blizz long term, when it’s nonsense. lol
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No. It’s an important point because you are comparing retail WoW’s LIMITLESS player base on a single REALM system to Classic WoW which not only doesn’t have this…shouldn’t. It also has nothing to do with the topic, you brought it up without any background.
What?
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That’s NOT being debated AT ALL. I have stated this MULTIPLE MULTIPLE TIMES in this thread alone. The Classic FRESH population would be IN THE MINORITY!!!
This DOES NOT change the fact that it would PULL A PROFIT AND have well over 10k players participating on these Classic FRESH servers.
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