When classic was announced I was intrigued by the thought of a permanent Vanilla - where the treadmill would be over after Naxx and thats that.
Yet, here we are again. TBC will invalidate anything done in Classic as we all know - and Classic servers will be severely impacted by TBC’s release - ghost towns maybe.
I’m just lamenting the re-emergence of the treadmill.
Yeahhhh… so, that was never a thing.
No changes!!!
Am I right boies?
Wait. I hated that hashtag… Nevermind
I’m curious to see what’ll happen to Classic servers. It might be negative for those following the world buff meta and speed running raids, but for everybody else it’ll be great since boost culture and the like will probably follow all the raiders to the TBC servers.
Money talks.
Blame the #nochange troupe.
If the things are to be done exactly the way they were, then the same things will happen. We can’t hope for a different outcome with a #nochange mentality.
Please explain how we all know. Because some of the questions posed were whether people wanted their Classic characters to port over to BC servers.
Don’t get so dramatic.
Keep Classic servers and allow people to decide if they want to move to TBC, thank you.
I assume that will be the case but even in that case, classic servers are decimated, population wise.
I think this would be the right way to handle it. If some servers turn to ghost towns, that could be fixed promptly by linking them down to 3-4 metarealms.
I’ll probably be staying 
I haven’t even reached level 40 yet, so I will be around for a long while.
120 people ran naxx (hyperbolic numbers) in vanilla.
Has classic tbc been confirmed?
I’ve always found the prospect of a TBC server more exciting than Classic.
TBC is Classic, but they fixed all the awful gameplay of Classic. More classes became viable, they fixed loot and questing and so many other things.
TBC essentially is the Classic+ people want.
Not yet, but Blizz has run surveys about it so it’s at least a possibility.
I would bet that their data archival story had improved significantly by the end of TBC too, so probably no wild goose chase finding the data like they had with Vanilla. Additionally, the data structures used by TBC are quite similar to vanilla’s so most of the technical work is already done.
They could probably pump out TBC Classic tens of times more quickly and easily than the original. With the popularity of the original plus the addition of belves and draenei acting as a pull for TBC classic, there’s little reason for them not to.
There will still be Classic servers along side TBC servers.
So your “permanent Vanilla” will still be there.
Yea i remember that survey. Replacing ny felheart/nem gear hurt. Thems the breaks though.
it’ll likely be a separate game. you’ll still have classic to play in.
i love the idea of having the separate versions of the game all playable, up to wotlk at least. even cataclysm maybe.
wotlk is where i want to be, it’s my home. getting harder and harder to justify giving money to a company like blizzard, but… for wotlk, i think i can stomach it for a while.
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Are you ready for the potential reset?
I did.
Permanent Vanilla will still be there.
How many people will still play it is not a concern.
Lots of people would rather play TBC than Classic, but you’ll still be able to play Classic if you like.
Ewwwww, no. I hope they don’t.
Wrath is fine, but Cata can go die in a fire. Preferably a dragon breathing on it.