I have to ask… I’m not trying to troll here… what community? I didn’t have to speak to another person at all since Wrath.
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True… BUT.
The people that want Classic Only #nochanges authentic as possible will quit the game and unsub if you attempt to force TBC on them. So you really have six of one, half dozen of the other. Either you provide Classic and TBC with separate servers meaning populations fragment but total subscribers stays the same (or increases, for the people waiting for TBC). Or, you attempt to force everyone into TBC and watch people flat out unsubscribe (I would be one of those people unsubscribing).
So I don’t see the argument against separate servers from a population argument. I absolutely see the argument from a development standpoint, but I would argue that Classic becomes a hands-off system once the phases end, with no need for any development time/upkeep beyond the same compatibility/security updates to the client software that retail would need anyway.
If TBC, WOTLK, or (gross) Classic+ are to be a thing – they should be on separate servers.
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If you didn’t have a community in Retail, that’s on you man. Vanilla through BfA the community for me was almost always the same, my guild.
Classic isn’t much different, my guild is 99% of my community.
You’ll pardon me if I roll my eyes a bit here, I hope. You know what I mean. My wife and I bought our house almost three years ago and while we haven’t met all of our neighbors, those people are still part of our community.
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But you can still go to BC and Wotlk zones and do everything you want to do still… they never took that content away. How about releasing good expansions instead of re-releasing expansions? Just maybe?
Whoa, getting caught up in a misunderstanding.
We’re on the same page here, angry one. Yes, they’re here forever but they’re not here to release content or deviate from it’s original version to retain the playerbase forever.
They took away class design, that’s a huge part of why I play. Up til WoD I loved all the class design, it started going downhill when they started pruning.
Now I can’t even play my favorite hunter spec, they’ve turned it into something completely different. Same goes with my favorite warlock spec.
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Blizzard themselves even admit they’re not sure what truly makes classic so popular. They were even convinced nobody would like it (“you think you do…”). How in the world are you going to expect that Blizzard can make “more” classic content?
No, I don’t mean overly generalized terms about slow leveling, community focused, and other snippets of nostalgia. I mean actually distill it down to quantifiable metrics and criteria that could be itemized as a deliverable within the context of a project deadline. The concept of “Classic+” and the resulting forum posts embodies how the answers here are entirely different to every player.
Classic ended when vanilla ended. You can’t just grab the end of it with pliers and just extract more same content out of it magically. We’d just end up ruining Classic in the form of “Retail Lite” at best.
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Oh my goodness. If they add TBC servers AND Wrath servers I may never cancel my subscription!
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This thread is more evidence against classic +. Everyone has a different idea of what it is. Nothing blizzard could do would work. This just makes more camps to argue with each other.
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I’m guessing they are quietly working on it as we happily play Classic. 
They’ve already stated “now that we’ve done Classic, TBC would be easy” so yea, TBC is totally on the way, it’s just a matter of when and how they release it.
They wouldn’t have to make new servers.
They’ve already got clones of the server through layering. Why not use layering for something useful?
Play on the same server for each legacy version of WoW. The way would be separated by non-transitional layers. No need for BC/Wrath Classic Clients/Servers. You could just boot up Classic, hop on your server, and then switch versions through whatever character is locked to what layer. You couldn’t progress backwards Wrath to BC or BC to Vanilla.
alsong as classic. has 1 server that is full people should not complain. people are not going to play classic past the first restart. there is no reason to not have TBC people are going to quit regardless.
If your going to release BC and Wrath than why not Cat? Or WoD? I mean this is basically where things are going now
because cata is where the population started to decline… why would people want the expansion that became less popular
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Because nobody wants to play that trash.
Just have it go another way and everyone lives happily ever after the death of the Lich King and Deathwing never shows up. It can act as an alternate ending. I’m sure they can write something up.
If you want to play the original storyline, go retail.
Hell… after the death of the lich king make Cata through BfA a bad dream of Thrall of how things could have turned out.
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It’s desperate flailing from the C+ crowd for an excuse as to why Blizz should contort themselves into knots rather then give players the option of playing during an era in which they probably first played.
Because once Blizz releases TBC or Wrath any hopes of C+ are pretty much dead.
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Because theres people out there who do like it. What about the people that never experienced Cat? Or MoP? Just because you don’t like them doesn’t mean everyone does.
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And this is a bad thing for WoW, Blizzard, and classic content players? There will come a point, even in Vanilla content, where people are just going to want to raid and Pvp. That pattern formed back in Vanilla and will in Classic.
As a side note, farming buffs for raiding goes under the raiding heading for me.