This is a serious question that I’ve been thinking about for a while now. What expansion should blizzard stop making classic servers for? At a certain point it starts becoming ridiculous. Are we going to get BFA classic eventually?
When does it stop?
People wanted a classic server option because of how long ago vanilla was and how Nostalrius was shut down. TBC as well. Tbc is much more of a cash grab than a passion project like classic wow. Heavily monetized and collapsing.
My personal preference would be for Wrath classic to be the last classic release, and they just add content to it. Wrath classic+. It doesn’t make any sense to keep going because like I said it just becomes ridiculous after a while and it isn’t why people wanted classic in the first place. All this is extra. They probably should have left classic wow as it was, not released tbc at all, and made classic+ with new content, class changes and pvp seasons.
Perhaps at some point in the future, they add a Season of Mastery that progresses through all Classic (at the time) expansions on a 12-month cycle.
So, for example, if they had Vanilla, TBC, WotLK, Cata, MoP, WoD, there would be 2 months for each. They could possibly handle loot by having either every raid boss drop every item on their loot table each kill, make raids 24 hour lockouts (like heroic dungeons), or just remove lockouts altogether.
Would people play that? I don’t know. But I suppose that is relevant to the original question: they should stop when people stop playing.