If it was permanent, it would have been announced as that. This is announced specifically as a 20th Anniversary event server.
Blizzard knows exactly what they’re doing.
You think they’re selling you fresh, (which has failed every time) while slapping TBC into it.
What they are selling you is a fresh server that goes into TBC and ends with uncertainty…but how uncertain is it? Microsoft needs a payday-it wasn’t cheap buying Acitivision Blizzard!
Personally, I expect them to open the Cloning service to send your character to Era, resell TBC Collectors Edition and open up the in game shop.
You’ll play until Sunwell Plateau, get farmed, prepatch will hit, DK’s run around, and we’ll sell you a WOTLKC Collector’s Edition.
We’ll cut the WOTLK expansion time in half of course. A Gnome with rocket boots will show up in the Shop and sell you a “Get Out of Cataclysm” pass for $60 that launches you straight to MOP Classic, because we’ve learned twice now that Cataclysm is a terrible expansion.
Because this was such a corporate success, we’ll give you Fresh to WOTLK in 2026, and we won’t explicitly tell you that you can Clone your character to Era, and we’ll sell you a Legion Classic pass once WOTLK is over.
Again. There was no way to verify the exact number classic has ever had because wow doesn’t release those numbers but during dragon flight ever single website, using the data provided, was estimating between 6-8 million subs for all of wow, not just classic. So no wotlk did not have 10 million subs, not even close.
Get a grip it’s just a game. Go touch some grass
/cast Rejuvenation
We’ll get TBC era. Keep lobbying!
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WotLK started out at a bit over 11 million subs, keeping almost steady all the time, rising a bit for launch of Cata, from there it’s downhill untill Blizz no longer made the sub numbers public. If you do not believe us, do a google search.
Sub numbers were public in the dawn of time called Vanilla onwards 
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Let me preface this by saying I’m probably autistic, so you’re underestimating the replay value for people like me.
I watch a lot of the same shows over and over. I play the same games over and over. When I find something that I think is perfect for me, I stick with it. I like TBC because it’s like Vanilla but with stuff to do for solo players. My biggest gripe about Era is there really isn’t much to do after you hit 60 if you play alone. That all changes in TBC. It’s this sweet spot. Wrath goes too far on too many QoL changes and you start to see the retail design changes come into play. TBC is just perfect. <3
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im talk original wrath had 10 mil and they did release those numbers. and no tbc is more important than touching grass. I WILL HURT MYSELF IF I PLAY THRU TBC TO GET RUG PULLED FORCED INTO WOTLK LEMME CLONE TO TBC AND WOTLK
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Yah and we’re talking about wotlk classic not wotlk. They were public then they haven’t been since cata/mop time frame.
What are we 8 years old? Stop throwing a tantrum and comparing classic to the original wotlk isn’t comparable nor should it be. It’s completely different crowd.
just go back to retail why r u even here?
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it really wouldn’t tho lol 
It’s an odd concept to be mad at someone for disagreeing with your wildly inaccurate posts, then when they do you threaten to harm yourself. Its a bit ridiculous. Time to grow up bud
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my post are accurate wotlk did have 10mil subs and tbc helped get it there. tbc and wotlk were peak wow and we deserve era realms. nothing is inaccurate about what im saying
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definitely report that post dude he sounds unstable
Wotlk is not wotlk classic. The original iteration is not the same thing as a game that was reintroduced 10 years later. So again. Your data isn’t only inaccurate it’s easily disputable.
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i never said wotlk classic had 10 mil. but tbc wotlk and vanilla are peak game design theres no arguing that
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Nothing’s as ever good as it was. Enjoy what you’re given, or move on. I’m enjoying
i will not move on why should i stop enjoying something as amazing as tbc
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Well id argue that but that would be based on opinion which wouldn t be fact. I personally enjoy retail much more then I enjoyed the original wotlk. I’ll instead tell you again. Bringing out a game 10 years later, a game we all beat to death then and again just a couple of years ago, is not going to produce the same numbers as it did 10 years ago. We found that out with the last iteration of tbc and wotlk classic. Numbers were high in the first week and then nose dived a few weeks in. Even sod started tanking numbers the first couple of weeks in.
It’s your life, brother. Live it as best as you can. I’ll not tell you how to live 