I am very confused about what is happening with my bnet client right now.
It says I do not have wow classic installed, which I have been playing and has been installed.
It says I DO have tbc classic installed…
So they… they swapped the 2 and are making classic players reinstall classic again? lol wUt?!
Also, when launching “tbc classic” (if that is your real name, game launcher…)
It sports regular classic artwork.
Finally, it tells me I need an active game time sub in order to play, which I do have (I am assuming this is a well documented glitch with the servers not being active right?)
i’m getting the same issues as the first two things you mentioned, but i may be able to help with the 3rd. look at the box where your account name is and make sure it’s set to something like “wow1”.
This is what I came here to find out as well. I’m planning on moving onto TBC but do I have to just keep the TBC classic installed and install classic or what?
When you first log in, you’ll then make a choice on each existing character whether to advance that character into Burning Crusade Classic or choose to play on a World of Warcraft Classic Era realm available as a new game download on the Battle.net Desktop App.
That makes sense and would keep the two versions nice and tidy. I just will need to figure out how to find the version I already have installed on my computer…
This is consistent with how blizzard handles the directories, instead of making everyone install the new game and move their addons, they’re upgrading the current directory so that people won’t lose their WTF and Addon folders. However this posses a weird issue, the client doesn’t really have the ability to duplicate an installation that exists, it can only create new directories with virgin files, so when people chose to stay in classic, they will have to replace their WTF and addon folders.
It should be relatively painless to do, once you copy the folders into the right directory, the classic era client should be able to pick it up without issues.
So ‘Classic’ is now actually a whole new game that has to be downloaded and installed? If that’s the case, then -shrug- ok. But otherwise it would have been nice if Blizz could have warned us to back up Classic before this patch, so we wouldn’t have to redownload it again. I mean, not all of us have cable internet. I already had to sit through a long 1 gig update today, and now Blizz wants me to reinstall Classic to the tune of 3 more gigs 0_o
EDIT: It was trying to auto install into the wrong folder. When I redirected it, the download was only 340 mb, so that wasn’t bad afterall.
can anyone give me the link to install wow classic era? whenever I installed, it is all wow TBC classic. Seems like missing the drop down on my battlenet desktop for the wow classic era.
Clearly the TBC launcher was the classic launcher we had. Makes sense considering we are making new classic realms and carrying on the current ones for TBC. That situation answers that.
Classic is now TBC Classic but the folder still says just Classic and all the Classic addons are for version 1.13 which wouldn’t be up to date for TBC which is what the Classic folder is now.
Feels like they did it backwards, for sure. Just, make TBC the new one and actually call it… TBC Classic. How hard was that? Apparently, too hard.
I had the same question. No point in copying the old Classic to a new folder because it’s the old Classic, actually now the new BC Classic not the new old Original Classic. Did I get that right?
I have the normal install i guess you would call it on one pc; retail classic and tbc. however on my laptop i have retail, classic and classic 2 (what?) so i cant update the addon’s for the most part unless they work with both classic and tbc.