Blizz, please run a The Burning Crusade server.
You have many customers with a great range of tastes. Some of us love the original Classic Era, some WotLK, and others enjoy the current Retail version. There are also many of us that love TBC era, as can be seen by this topic coming up over and over again.
I understand that the forum population is a small fraction of the player base, but it is simultaneously a sample of the larger player base. Each person here on the forums represents hundreds (or more) of players out there.
There is a core of us that want to make a TBC server our home. We enjoy the flavor of the Classic Era, which TBC retains much of, yet we also want to have Blood Elves and Draenei in the game, Guild Banks, Jewelcrafting, etc.
Just this past week I have been leveling a Draenei Warrior through Azuremyst and Bloodmyst Isles and I had a blast. You did a great job with those areas. I love playing through Eversong Forest and Ghostlands too (as well as the vanilla areas). Not all players like to rush to the endgame. There are many of us that enjoy the journey. We actually enjoy leveling, cooking, fishing, and professions in general. Classic Era and TBC were good for that stuff.
Please, quietly put a fresh TBC server out there. A quick news story to announce it. No fanfare is needed. Maybe mention it briefly at BlizzCon and that’s it. Then see what happens. See if it gets populated over the next few months. This can be an experiment. Perhaps experiment with TBC+? Tweak TBC to have Achievements and raise the vanilla raids to level 70? Or just put out a fresh simple TBC server. Either would work for most of us who want a TBC server.
My sub is about to run out, so I won’t be able to reply to this post. I hope it makes sense. I’ll be back most likely to goof around one day, but I would be enthusiastic to come back to a TBC server, and I’ll most likely drag my kids onto it too.
Take care Forums!
Edit: Locking at 70 on WotLK won’t be the same. The start areas are on easy mode in WotLK (all mobs are neutral now), reagents have been removed (poisons, starting fires, etc.), we now catch Sickly Fish, Tattered Cloths, etc. (Fishing is important! ). TBC largely retained the flavor of Classic when leveling. You lose all of that on WotLK.
TBC topics that have been active, aside from this current thread:
A Future Vision of Classic (Original, TBC, and WotLK
I’m on a quest to like every TBC thread I see
Tbc hype tbc hype
An other TBC ERA servers request!
Tbc era server
A Request for a TBC Server
TBC Servers?
Bring back TBC era Classic servers!
I Miss TBC: Classic
We want WOW classic xpacs to be permanent!
The addition of TBC and WotLK era servers
Give Me TBC ! or Give Me Death!
Can we have one TBC and Wrath server permanently?
Why we should have a BC Server, according to ChatGPT
TBC, Wrath Era plsss
…and i still don’t get it?
Why didn’t Blizzard leave a couple Classic TBC servers running? Will Wrath servers be replaced with Cata?
TBC Server Please!
To all these ALT accounts asking for TBC Classic ERA servers
TBC or Fresh Classic?
Where is THE BURNING CRUSADE SERVER for the people who have a taste for it?