Nor did i say they did.
No thanks. You would very likely have the option of both FRESH servers, as well as Xfers (of some form) from Classic to TBC servers so we follow the general path that was done historically. Blizz will likely keep some Classic servers with Vanilla Classic. Both sides will win. No need to punish one side or the other as you suggested.
Just because they want it doesn’t mean it makes sense from a business perspective and at the end of the day Activision is about making money.
Okay? so now you don’t want fresh servers.
Unable to effectively counter a person’s arguments some people will make personal attacks and accuse them of jealousy or inadequacy. You’ll see it often here.
I dont see why people keep stressing the solution is easy peasy
All servers progress to TBC with option to Transfer to a Classic Eternal Server (ensures no ghostowns as players will be funneled into a few servers for Max Population health)
Fresh Tbc and Classic servers open (the amount of servers depends on the demand just like the top eternal servers)
Eventually with wrath you can duplicate this and create TBC eternal servers to join the vanilla ones
This way everyone wins
Na no changes give us TBC as it was. Follow the path of as little changes as possible and you will succeed blizzard.
This means nothing.
There hasn’t even been an announcement yet so nothing you have done has “been for TBC.”
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Using the “wasting your time” argument when discussing an mmo will never not crack me up.
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It’s almost like different people enjoy different things in an MMO that people keep telling me is supposed to be about doing what you like.
And shockingly not everyone wants to relevel just to get the stuff they actually want after already having done so.
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I think for fresh they should go with level 1 start. I’d play fresh, but not with level 58 start cancer.
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Both fresh servers and servers that allow transfers. Blizz can make a lot of money off the people transferring their 60s from Classic to TBC realms. This will also maintain Classic realms for the players who want to keep playing classic.
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Because we all totally want the private server experience…
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I have no doubt that a large number of classic players are fans of retail, and are content locusts, who are happy just consuming content.
Decisions about how to handle it should not be based on popular opinion, as popular opinion led us down the road to the 
heap that retail became. And “popular” is not a metric for “good”.
What do you believe is more valuable to Blizzard: a player willing to, and enjoys, starting fresh every so often with the same content, or a player who will zoom through the content to the end and stop playing until they are fed new content?
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There is enough demand for a few Eternal servers and a few servers do fresh (with option to Xfer to Eternal at the end of cycle)
Later bud.
Blizzard wants both of them because they both pay for something. People playing either version of the content are still paying subs for the game and its quite clear that people come back dump a lot of money getting bosts and other blizzard things in the Live client then stop playing for a year. I would bet the money made on that outlook is more than enough to cover the time that others play Fresh and act like there content is the only kind that matters in the long run.
It could be argued, and correctly, that what happened in cata was clearly the a change to the game and that people didnt like SOMETHING that came about with that expansion. Beyond that any idea that some part of this equation is more important to blizzard than the other is silly.
Things started going down hill in Wrath and a lot of players were holding their breath to see if Cata would fix the things. When cata didn’t and further exacerbated the divide from the orignal formula Vanilla/TBC.
Its like Cocacola in 1985 when they replaced it with New Coke there was a epic public outcry for Cocacola classic (original) and with good reason… Its just good as is… dont mess with the formula people will drink it for their entire life and their childrens childrens children.
Vanilla/ TBC = Cocacola Classic
Wrath & Cata = Were the start of New Coke
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It could be argued that a lot of stuff in vanilla by v1.12 (like AV, neutering of strat/scholo, cross realm bgs, etc in the name of making things more accessible) were early signs of to come.
The game started sliding down the slippery slope LONG before wrath.
You have no evidence to back up such a statement. I’m not necessarily disagreeing but you can’t provide any data to support it.