This really sucks. The suits are not looking at classic at all, atleast, judging from this call anyway.
If classic blows up and brings back huge numbers to the game, you know the suits are gonna look at it and ask “why arn’t we selling flying pigs there?” and the micro-transactions will start sneaking in with things people don’t outright hate, first it will be server transfers, then race changes, then name changes, then come the faction changes and eventually we will see cosmetic stuff introduced to the game that was only available for a limited time (trading card items, blizzcon items, event items) and people will be fine with it. After that however,comes the extra stuff. The “save a ceo” charity items, new faction mounts, new pets.
If it fails, we will probably get 1 iteration of the server(s) that will go to naxx and then sit there indefinitely. No freshes, no tbc’s. Just naxx until the server dries up.
I’m still excited for this game, but honestly, im more concerned about corporate screwing this up at this point than any changes that devs may or may not be going through with.