I’m not against Wrath, oh heavens no, I LOVED that expansion!
Each expansion had their strengths, but also brought new additions that I believe resulted in what retail is today.
The Dungeon List thing in BC was great. Showed everyone looking for a dungeon and a note. The teleporting to the dungeon I think hurt more than helped.
No fear.
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I’ll be staying on the classic server, the only reason I sub. Noty no bc for me, or any other exp. I can log into retail for that.
This is patently false, they specifically mentioned that TBC would be relatively easy to do if the community wanted that when asked about plans following phase 6.
It is a player discussion, though, and that’s why we’re discussing it.
It may affect server pop but overall subs would probably go up as more ppl join and move onward. When server pop drops, which i think its abnormally high now anyway, just combine if it even needed it.
players and guilds should be synced between all servers up to wrath eventually.
Your gear should stay in each server. Would require nothing to do and all blizzard would have to do is keep characters synced between the realms and update faction changes. Traveling from a higher real, you would revert back to 60 and have only the gear and gold you left azeroth wearing.
Returning through the portal you would have the gear, gold, talents and level you left out lands originally wearing.
that way all content stays relevant going forward and everyone can have their cake and eat it too.
It makes sense to do BC and WotLK servers, the game continued to grow. After WotLK, the game started dropping, quite severely.
Cata, MoP, WoD, Legion and BfA servers would obviously not make sense. BC and WotLK servers absolutely would. WotLK servers have been the most popular private servers, and for good reason.
QFT.
My order of preference would be TBC - Vanilla - WoTLK. everything past that isn’t even worth ranking. So I am happy with Classic, but if I had the chance to choose between a TBC and Vanilla server when Classic was launched I would have gone TBC without a second thought. I also have old guild mates that say if they do a TBC or WoTLK server then they will re-sub, but they didn’t care much for vanilla. Granted they are the minority there most of them did resub for Classic.
I think you are overestimating how much it costs to keep a server running in “maintenance mode”. Once they get through all of the Phases everything is static and unchanging the number of new bugs and exploits will be minimal. There are other MMOs out there that have been running a handful of servers like this for a decade.
This will happen anyway. The people that want other servers are not going to play Classic indefinitely. They can either loose subs to other games or pservers, or they can keep things moving forward to keep peoples interest.
Oh really??? 
This post was made 6 days before Classic even launched. Did you seriously miss all of the TBC threads that post spawned over the course of the first week or so post launch???
Either you are majorly ignorant, or blatantly trolling. I already posted this earlier in the thread too…you just magically missed that one too right?
Have they? I never played p-servers but many people here claim vanilla servers were the most popular. Wrath was the point where the game was most fun for me.
The LFD didn’t hurt wrath much because people came into it with strong guilds and a strong community. I rarely used the LFD in wrath. Just to fill in the group after I got 2 or 3 guild mates to join me. It took a couple of expansions for the LFD to destroy the communities and the guilds.
I doubt it would fragment the community that much.
Majority of classic players would play TBC. It was great expansion.
From my experience, they have been.
Every new WotLK private server launch over on wowserver’s reddit has peaked around 6 to 7k people. After a month or so, it stabilizes to a good 4-5k at peak times. All one one realm, so it’s literally packed. 30 to 40k auctions, you name it.
I should have tried that. I kept slogging along in wow expansion after expansion, each one being less happy with.
they should do it in about two years, a normal expansion cycle and classic will be slow by then anyway.
they might need to merge the vanilla realms at some point too, and keep a few healthy servers going indefinitely
northdale had more than that, vanilla servers were the most poplular
Well in that case then, before Nostalrius came around, Warmane’s Icecrown had 12k with a 2k queue. So.
You gents think we will have this specific topic hit on at Blizzcon?
While Classic is popular right now, the majority of the its playerbase will be looking for something else in 2 years. I think most players interested in Legacy servers are interested in either Classic resets or progression to TBC.
Fragmenting the playerbase? Only but the most hardcore Vanilla fans (50-100k) will still be playing Classic with or without TBC. TBC would pump those numbers back up to 250-500k for at least a year.
Let each Classic server vote to stay unchanged or move on to later/extra content? A year from now, you login and are asked if you would want your server to progress to the Burning Crusade expansion. After the tally is complete, a launch date is set, and all servers that voted yes are progressed, while all others remain unchanged. Those on the progression servers who voted no can (for a nominal fee) move all their characters to a classic server.