I’ve been saying this awhile and I can totally see them run through the originally trilogy in fast xp high loot drop settings every year
Classic will continue rolling forward with every expansion until it reaches retail.
There will be new servers that start at Vanilla and they repeat the process.
Why do I say this?
Holly Longdale is the reason I say this.
She was in charge of Everquest.
And Everquest has something called progression servers.
A progression server is, you guessed it Everquest that progresses from original Everquest to the most recent expansion then they make new servers and start the process over.
Progression servers were a massive hit for Everquest and it’s the same for WoW in that regard because there will always be a group of people wanting a FRESH server that’s starting at the start.
These servers print money because they keep people engaged in playing the game that’s already made plus as we’ve seen with the release of classic expansions they’re selling “packs” and that’s just extra money.
So it’s only a matter of time before we see Blizzard announce brand new Vanilla servers that will start rotating through the expansions again. I’d guess maybe next year at Blizzcon.
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I think with Cata its already not classic. Yeah, the Cata content plays differently now, but the Cata world is available in the Retail game. And sure, Outland and Northrend are in Retail too, but when you played those expansions back in the day you still had that old Vanilla Azeroth to go back to. Wrath is the apex of the experiment because it preserves everything from before Cata irrevocably changed the old Vanilla world.
Someone in a Reddit thread suggested calling everything post-Wrath Reforged or some such. That’s not a bad idea.
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So which expansions aren’t profitable?
I dunno. I cant imagine WoD being popular, since it wasnt the first time around. MoP will be printing money for sure
If they actually finish WoD, I bet it would be immensely popular. I think even the no changes crowd would agree with me there.
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This is exactly the way I was thinking after they announced no perm TBC and NO WotLK. To keep the money coming in and they have a idea on how much each expansion would bring and lose money wise.
Some players quit after TBC and more will quit when Cata launches. but when they bring them back most will replay cause that’s expansion that they love.
Everyone and their mother knows it ends with Wrath. There was only one story left to tell when they moved on from the RTS games and it wasn’t anything that came after.
Some will go into complete denial about, others will usurp the discussion with lame and stupid semantic debates but I think any rational and honest person would know where the line is drawn.
Wrath is the end of the road where actual Classic WoW is concerned - for a slew of reasons - one of them is because Wrath got off the Classic train itself a little bit early while it was still Live. Thank god for Arthas or Wrath can be considered bad in comparison to Vanilla/TBC instead of just inferior.