This is a Blizzard emulation of Vanilla

[Blastology-nerzhul]

That’s why it’s an emulation, and not a 1:1 recreation.

[Dommont-saurfang]

No way in hell they are going to run the original software with unpatch security flaws on old (disposed of) hardware.

[Thyria-westfall]

@Kayrina-kiljaeden

I don’t agree with this notion. You’re treating everyone as a hivemind. There are plenty of people playing Classic who would not move onto a WotLK server, and there are plenty of people with no interest in Classic who would move to a WotLK server. Splintering isn’t going to happen to any significant amount, everyone doesn’t love every expansion.

This. More importantly, there are a lot of us who would be playing multiple servers. As it stands right now I’m still playing Retail along with Classic. As far as it causing player base issues you have to remember that all they really need for successful servers is enough players for 4 servers, one of each type, which is NOT a lot of players compared to the scope of where Classic currently is or where they’d be with people coming back for TBC/Wrath servers.

[Arnoldt-bloodsail-buccaneers]

@Blastology-nerzhul

That’s why it’s an emulation, and not a 1:1 recreation.

It’s pretty darn inauthentic, but not without it’s merits, in my opinion.

[Sedryn-feathermoon (Sedryn)]

It’s the best you’re going to get. The alternative is private servers with their plethora of bugs and workarounds. Wanna take the Deep Run Tram for real or instanced where you watch people disappear into the train and you ride it solo?

[Blastology-nerzhul]

Yeah not a true 1:1 replication, but we don’t want it to be anymore inaccurate to vanilla 1.12 than it already is.

[anon62374397]

@Blastology-nerzhul

It seems there are quite a few people who don’t understand the concept of the “Classic” server. This is not a “custom mode” server, or “custom progression” server, or anything like that.

This is Blizzards recreation of the base line game we now call “World of Warcraft Vanilla”. They decided to use patch 1.12 as the base for the entire game, and had to replicate original vanilla spell batching the best they could, and create a schedule for 1.12 content release.

But other than that, this is WoW patch 1.12. As close to how it was in 2006 as possible. That’s it. Period. End of story.

It is like when people park in a zone labeled “No Parking”, and they are like " Oh…no no I get that but like…I’m only parking for 5 minutes so it’s fine…" No…there is no parking. “No yeah I see that but like…there is no parking if it’s longer than 10 minutes…I’m only parking for 5 so…” No, the sign says “No Parking Anytime”. That means there is absolutely no parking for any amount of time ever by anyone, period.

This is Classic running the Vanilla 1.12 patch and everything it included. Nothing less, nothing more. No changes.

Do you guys understand now?

Cool. Go back to retail you baby.

[Blastology-nerzhul]

Why would I go back to retail? I want classic to stay as is, which is why I play it instead of retail lmao…