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When TBC was on the horizon and people were asking for Classic Era servers they were claiming the same things that people are saying now. That they and their friends would continue playing, that they’re fine running Naxx forever and that they’re willing to do it all over again and again by making new characters over and over. Unfortunatly they all quit very quickly. As soon as TBC hit there was already a noticable drop in the Classic Era player base, these people were either quitting WoW entirely or moved onto TBC servers.

Within a month after TBC launched Classic Era was effectively dead with only ~2 raids hanging on in Whitemane (iirc). Blizzard saw this, saw how quickly people left and took note of it for future or rather lack there of Era servers.

It’s about the player retention for WotLK Classic not Cataclysm.