A lot of you nah sayers actually do not understand, people have played on classic era private servers for over 10+ years, and willingly replayed just that content for that time. I highly doubt the player base for it will be mostly small. The problem I see with it however is the GDKP system. The endgame raiders need to adapt because of stasis servers. But I think players that want to play just classic, would rather start fresh. The meta will always happen, there’s no way of undoing it. You’ll just have to find like minded players, but that’s the hard part in classic wow, and it drives players away.
Yep, correct.
Heck, even Classic Era clones will be nearly dead unless they just merge them all to 1-2 servers. It would take very popular streamers sponsoring a fresh classic run to get it going and even then it’ll be dead the very moment their content for it stops.
No no, people get it quite well. We understand. The people that like it that way are a passionate, BUT TINY, subset of players. We aren’t talking 10% of the game, we’re barely talking 1% of the game. 10,000 people wanting fresh servers every 6 months would be 1% if the Classic population were one million. But I’d be willing to bet there’s more than a million playing Classic or Classic and Retail both, even if only occasionally. I’d also be willing to bet that the population that wants “seasonal” servers is below that 10,000 lines.
Bad troll is bad.
People want it.
Get over it.
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Wishful thinking but it won’t be an option. We were lucky to even get classic
servers to begin with.
Yeah I can imagine all of the people flocking to TBC private servers in protest of Blizzard’s TBC classic. 
Ehhhh… That’d be awfully stupid of them.
I’m waiting for a new classic vanilla server before I go back to it.
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I find that very, very hard to believe that only 10,000 players want to just stay in classic.
I have a hard time thinking it’s much higher. And my reference was also not aimed at “Classic forever” but “Fresh start/Seasonal” style servers on a regular basis, which I guarantee is below 10k
It’s pretty likely Blizzard will do fresh forever realms at some point, but you’ll have to wait till they’re done trying to milk the other expansions.
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You speak to my heart. Any many others, I’m sure.
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this is what all of your post is about
I just want to say this is exactly why I’m against NEW Servers that never self-delete.
At least with Seasonal, they will self-delete, after some time.
This I could understand. I can see where it would be financially feasible for blizzard to have one seasonal server that self deleted for this small niche crowd.
But this would entail no character transfers ever. Once Naxx is completed then everything gets deleted and everyone starts over.
Mains will go to TBC, some alts will stay on Ero. In a case of nostalgy you can come back and main different class. Please are definitely will buy clones too. But fresh… nah. Maybe in next 15 years xD.
I do see what you’re saying, and I do agree with that. As a compromise, I think any Seasonal Character wanting to be saved should be paid for with real life money onto their respected Era type.
For example, let’s say it’s a BC Seasonal Server, and somebody wants to save their progress. They can pay to save/archive said character on the BC Perma Server, only. It cannot be saved over onto a Perma Wrath Server nor Perma Classic Server.
That number seems pretty high to me.
Couchy
your fresh experience comes from starting anew on existing classic servers. to guarantee a fresh experience given x years is to add onto the upkeep costs for blizzard
and tell me exactly, what the downside is to seasonal servers being up? not a single person is obligated to play on them. they are specifically there for people who want such an experience, to be able to play classic without being stuck at the very end of the game.
blizzard leaves classic for dead once tbc comes out, those looking to have the itch of classic scratched once again will just go to a private server, like we did for years.
not every single person wants to play tbc. they are two different games, you know.