nah its pretty clear. Dont need “reliable” data. They have pretty much 1 well working Wotlk duel/arena server, some half dead TBC arena server and pretty much every popular realm is based in vanilla. I do not wanna name the pservers but a quick google search will tell you what is populated and what is not.
Not to mention that the most successful pserver (nost) was also vanilla.
Beyond getting full T2.5 gear and either Ashbringer or Might of Menethil, not sure what I’d do.
I still run Molten Core, not because I need any gear (besides Onslaught), but because I want to play the game and hang out with friends.
Same thing with BWL too: don’t need any more gear from there, but I would absolutely come along because raiding is fun.
I imagine the same will be said of Naxx, if I get that far. I got to Cthun tonight, so its entirely possible.
It always amazes me that so many people have absolutely zero understanding of statistics. Especially since statistics is so important in the modern world. The term you need to study in this instance is “representative sample” and why the p-server population isn’t a representative sample and why it can’t be used to make predictions of how classic players will behave.
Have you ever actually read anything or do you just play video games?
A pserver was literally the reason they even looked into bringing classic to life. A pserver set in vanilla. If the nost thing would not have happened the outcry would never have been that big.
Idc what you think. The pserver success rates of different iteration of this game says enough. The retail players or dormant players who have not touched the game in years (even on pservers) can not be evaluated or factored in. The only data and facts and “statistics” we have is what is available. And in that regard vanilla outweighs TBC and WotlK by popular demand.
Get my three 60s in full T3, Halo infinite and Diablo 4
If all we have is bad data it doesn’t become useful because it’s all we have. A question on a news site, whether Huffpost or Brietbart, is worthless because it’s not an representative sample. Science doesn’t use unreliable data even if it’s all it has. It throws it out and starts over. Along with “representative sample” you should look up the concept, “Garbage in, Garbage out.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in%2C_garbage_out
As you pointed out, Classic is made up of retail, dormant, and p-server players. Any sample must include representatives of all three to be useful. In fact it’s likely that retail and dormant players make up more of the classic population than p-server players. Which makes the data we have from p-servers even more unreliable.
Everyone with the slightest bit of knowledge in statistical analysis knows that polls of self selected individuals is worthless. That you don’t simply reveals you as uneducated in this area of knowledge.
PvP Until my hearts content (Never Ending) - Chase down multiboxers, and bots.
Level alts and get naxx gear on all my alts, then pvp in naxx gear and 1 shot everyone on all my alts. rank my alts to rank 14 too for the title. The amount of things you can do is endless.
You love to prance around about your bs statistical “knowledge” and try to win an argument by telling others they have no idea of this “field” linking wikipedia articles, completely missing the point of the argument, while being rather rude at the same time.
My statement and I am going to quote it again, so make sure you read it carefully was:
This was in response to someone telling me that most players are not die hard classic fans (which is absurd by default since blizzard doubled its subscriptions with classic, proving already there are fans of the project).
In your next response, you took my statement and then added an assumption you made up on your own and just tied it to my factual statement (which is that the most successful pservers are/were vanilla) and said: thats your assumption and its wrong.
I never said the majority won’t advance to TBC, you are the one making up assumptions left and right.
Then you go on in your rambling, still unable to read or understand my point for some reason. But please link me another article on wikipedia trying to argue that we do not know wether classic TBC is possibly more popular than Classic vanilla. I love to hear BS that has nothing to do with the point im trying to make.
you really can not read man. When did I say Classic is made up from: retail, dormant and pserver players? I literally called dormant players people who have not touched the game in years. Whats so hard to understand? Retail players is pretty selfexplanatory.
You are arguing some idiotic nonsense at this point, so maybe you stop playing games and learn to actually read what others type before telling them what they actually really meant with their statements and then try to insult them while displaying nothing but pretentiousness.
I have absolutely zero patience for ignorance.
Mate you literally are unable to understand that my whole point was that if blizzard launches fresh classic servers that there are people willing to do the whole thing over again.
You took that point and tried to spin it into me saying: TBC classic will be less popular than classic vanilla. And you did it in such a manner that you came off in the worst possible light and being rude.
Must be hard living with yourself then.
Also keep in mind that pservers are free and servers there are usually shade with corrupted pserver GMs that gives out boosts, free epics and instant max levels for cash or in donation points.
By then they will leave to tbc and your little funs dies then
vanilla private servers died when classic came out, if farming naxx and pvping in p6 gear was so much fun they wouldn’t have died to the extent they did. go to legacyplayers.com and you can see maybe 5-6 guilds across a few different realms raiding naxx on a semi-weekly basis. that is a good estimation of the amount of people who will want to remain in a p6 classic server long-term. farming naxx is not fun for most people.
I’m thinking that’s when I’ll start playing more bgs with the naive hope that premades will be dead by then or radically reduced.
Part of me also hopes that eventually arena’s will appear like they did in the tbc pre patch, I know the pre patch won’t happen in Classic but I still hope that arenas are implemented.
Realistically people will farm BiS and after a couple of months of PvP they’ll start dropping off.
those are literally guilds from classic practicing for when it comes out. some guilds are that disgustingly hardcore
hardcore players do not practice for new content on servers like kronos or vanillagaming. also, they aren’t going to practice content that is still months away from release.
Killing zug zugs and purging world buffs ofc 
get gressil and hungering cold and go ham