Instead of removing Wrath, why not separate Wrath and Cata just like Classic is separate from Hardcore?

[Heydownthere-arugal]

I can’t be bothered to type for the 10th time why there’s not going to be any WotLK era servers so here you go.

@Heydownthere-arugal

Classic Era was dead as soon as TBC released. Blizzard saw that and decided that Era servers largely aren’t what people want, or at least that most people just won’t play them. Being on the endless treadmill of Classic, TBC or WotLK just isn’t that appealing to the majority and the only way Blizzard can get people to play era at all is if they put a spin on it.

Hardcore made Classic Era flourish, and in turn, lead to the other modes SoM/D and offical Hardcore servers all of which had varying degree of participation. SoM imo came too soon and even though it had good numbers initially, after a month or so it was heavily bleeding players because people realised it was just Classic Era without anything new (SoI buff can hardly count as something new).

SoD is so popular because even though it’s Classic, it also has something new with that being the runes and the new dungeon turned raids among other things. It’s likely that the other Era servers will behave the same way, good initally then, a ghost town.

@Heydownthere-arugal

Blizzard doesn’t want to have a server that doesn’t even have half the population of a normal server back then (1.5k) or even a quarter of it. They were open to the idea of them with Vanilla Classic but since Vanilla Classic largely failed with it only retaining 2 raid group iirc after TBC Classic launched actually raiding while the rest of the servers were dead until the hardcore community made use of it.

They’re invested in doing seasonal content with Classic (SoD) and with no TBC Era servers it was kinda of a given (at least to me) that there’d be no WotLK Era servers. Which is a shame but personally I don’t really mind since I wouldn’t of played WotLK Era if it were an option.