Can you provide a Blizzard source on that?
It can for Classic. What you’re proposing is a new game entirely.
I am not adverse to the Classic+ idea, but we have a few hurdles to get over before you can make any “predestined” claims.
- We need to actually have Classic launch.
- The population has to stablise after launch.
- The population has to start growing.
- The playerbase has to exceed Retail.
- The players have to be unified in a desire to progress.
I get that you think Classic will meet all these things, but Blizzard has repeatedly said that they “have no plans” for any changes beyond Classic, and they don’t want to run two MMOs at once. Therefore in order to to be the preeminent, and thus favoured path, there needs to be a strong and consistent show of playerbase force.
All this talk of “inevitable” and “predestined” is like a political campaign where you think one candidate is a joke, and the other is ‘meh’ but electable, and suddenly there’s a swing and the joke wins.
Classic+ is by no means inevitable. Classic is going to prove it if we ensure that it does. All this talk of destiny and guarantees will simply make people lazy.