Anyone able to fill me in on why we don’t have TBC servers? I keep getting told it’s because Blizzard didn’t want to split the population but then they came out with Hardcore, SOD, and Cataclysm in the same year. So why? I’d pay to copy and play both.
Mostly because I think Blizzard hates TBC, if there were a TBC version we could play, I would play that again.
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they simply didnt want to make any TBC servers.
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To put it this way is because one they didn’t want to. Two they have multiple versions of “classic” running concurrently. Sadly, we probably won’t see tbc on a blizz realm for quite some time could be years even.
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The frank answer is that TBC Classic wasn’t as well received as people were expecting. A lot of people were discouraged by the sudden inclusion of a premium pass with extra rewards. Others were discouraged by the rampant farm bots that Blizzard barely did anything about. Others still wanted to just hold off until Wrath Classic came out instead.
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This is one reason ALL of the classic servers need to have the self found implemented into the system. This would eliminate gold buyer/sellers and bots… if that was to happen, I suspect TBC would get their own servers same with WoTLK servers
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I’d love to see dedicated TBC Classic servers. It was my favorite vers. of WoW.
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Too busy updating sod.
Honestly I wouldn’t take much for them to throw up a cluster for TBC Classic and see how it goes. From my understanding it had a great success at launch, just had some some issues that would be addressed this time around. Squeeky wheel gets the grease.
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Right now we are on sod time. If they stop at mop we might get them as cata fails, if legion we might get them as wod is run through. I mean tbc and legion might be dope. People do want to revisit older expansions so tbc plus would be nice, some qol changes wrath brought might be nice.
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right would be nice
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tbc please 
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Give the people what they want!! I agree with you!
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There are a few of these threads on here. Find them and keep posting on them, and maybe Blizzard will finally come to their senses and start a TBC server.
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Well maybe SoD will work it’s way to TBC in time.
SoD isn’t classic and a TBC timeline wouldnt be classic TBC.
SoD is its own thing, they have already said when SoD ends they will have a server where your characters can go that isn’t ERA.
Classic + looks like its going to be just a one year seasonal thing, and then reset with a new twist on the Classic gameplay with a different name Season of and after each season your characters will transfer to a special server.
I highly highly doubt they go into TBC.
I’m seeing a lot of chatter about this. Maybe Blizz will take notice?
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True. We need a TBC server. Open one this summer Blizz. Let’s see how it goes.
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Honestly, it’s most likely because they don’t believe that Classic can support the different games, and the data tends to show that.
Era - Mostly dead, just a few people hanging on with close knit groups.
Wrath - Mostly dead, just a few people preparing for Cataclysm.
SoD - Bursts when the new patches come out, but then dying off between them.
Hardcore - Mostly dead, just a few people hanging on because they love solo play, and the new Self Found mode is different.
There’s a Classic playerbase. 100% it exists, at about a third to half the size of the Retail group. But that playerbase moves as a group between “the new”. When Wrath came out, it surged to Wrath and away from Season of Mastery. When SoM came out, people moved away from the TBC progressive track. When TBC came out, very few people stayed on Era.
The Classic playerbase generally flocks to whatever is the most popular and active thing. Right now it’s Season of Discovery. All the other game modes are mostly dead.
So making a commitment to TBC Era servers would see an initial surge, probably far smaller than the original TBC pack, and then it drop away as the next “the new” comes out.
Cataclysm will have a surge of players moving from Season of Discovery. Then when SoD release new patches, and everyone’s done Bastion and Descent, they’ll move back to SoD. Then to Firelands. Then whatever comes after Season of Discovery for a while, and so on.
There’s mostly only one group of Classic players who are looking for just as much new content, or at least “content we haven’t done for a while, or with a twist”.
TBC Era servers would not be worthwhile, and would not last, and Era is a permanent commitment so it would tie up resources in something that’s not worthwhile.
Classic is going to forever be “the big next thing” because the modern gamer is a content locust who is more concerned with change than completion. There’s plenty of evidence of that, with raid loging, “playing for efficiency”, RMT in formats where it’s illegitimate, obsession with perfect buffs for a 20 year old game etc. Complete the content as fast as you can and off to something else.
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check this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJNIiDxqlAU
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