Lets do a vote right here re: TBC

[Noobshot-benediction]

This is what is going to happen

@Noobshot-benediction

4 Things are going to happen post Naxx.

Spoiler Alert

1. All Servers will progress to TBC
2. Classic Stasis servers will open for people who want to Transfer their characters back to a stasis server of their choice.
3. Fresh Classic servers open (as needed) (non character transfers)
4. Fresh TBC servers open (as needed) (non character transfers)

This keeps the community the most intact and allows players to choose what they want to play while allowing blizzard to properly gauge true server populations.

And this is why

@Valarkin-pagle

Blizzard won’t be able to plot population metrics, ie amount of needed servers, faction balance, etc, based on “copies.”

A copy doesn’t make you choose, therefore there isn’t a sacrifice present from a choice…which can help ensure that the decision is not a capricious one.

How would you expect Blizzard to determine how many servers they need?
How many will be PvE or PvP?
How many are serious of sticking to Classic only, instead of creating insurance?
How many will want Classic only, but become bored later?

and so on and so forth.

Blizzard will do what is cost effective, will retain the most customers, with the lest amount of effort, that additionally removes as much of the guessing game as they can.

Classic ==> TBC.

Option for pure classic that will be a player choice…where you will be responsible for your choice and not them.

more examples why copies wont work

@Valarkin-pagle

First, server type to the same server type was a given.

There are currently 39 Classic servers split between PvE, PvP, and RP types.

Then you allow free copies.

Everyone copies lots of character “Just in case”.

Now you have 20 servers of copies ready to go just before launch as an example.

And Blizzard has managed to actually spent the time and energy to make sure everyone has their cake and can eat it too! Yay go us!

Then you discover that only 1 in 5 copies is actually being played in pure classic…because there is no downside to copying. Server hardware, that costs money, was added is now under utilized and server populations are low and/or horribly unbalanced.

The players will now blame Blizzard.

Then Blizzard will employ the oh so successful server balance strategy, that they currently have in place, to effectively address the issue in the way we all love!

It’s not that copying in theory isn’t a great idea…I think it is.

However the amount of effort, resources, and attention to detail necessary to pull it off is not something that Blizzard has shown in years.

It will be a monumental fustercluck of Biblical proportions.