What's next? We need fresh servers or restore characters

[Caelen-dalaran]

@Septicflesh-arugal

@Kaivax

When you log in to WoW Classic after the patch next week, each of your Classic characters will choose between staying in Classic Era (version 1.13) and progressing to Burning Crusade Classic (version 2.5). For those who want to play a character in both versions, we’re offering a service to purchase a character clone in the other version of the game.

This post was in May '21. Clones don’t even need to come into it. 2 years ago people had the option to choose ERA only. Choosing one home was free.
We were all still level 60 when that post come out. Still don’t understand how people could not know about this for the entire time.

This post explains it perfectly.