It’s because then they would have to admit they’ve really blown it with certain expansions (Cataclysm, Draenor, BfA) over the years.
Classic WoW’s population is going to be a smack in the face for them.
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Cata and Draenor and BFA could have been great but even TBC wasn’t worth the cost of what we lost when we hit level 61. Foundational character growth was a cornerstone of everyone’s original love of the game. I’m as excited to have a rock solid end game to work through without fear of the next xpac making it all wasted effort.
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I’m sure Blizzard is prepared for a lot of players now. What they don’t know is whether or not people will stick around in a few months, a year, or longer.
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Partly due to the Classic grind and partly due to my very limited play time these days, I plan to have only one main character. I do look forward to building his reputation on the server.
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You have one too many zeros in there buddy
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Yes 125 barely populated servers is MUCH better than;
12 with near instant new server expansion potential
Every marketing department on the planet should hire this guy
He knows what he is talking about!!!
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I mean i could ask a question too. Why cant you read their posts and have a more informed opinion? They have stated on many occasions they are concerned with the server health AFTER launch into the months and years after they are formed. Full servers now may not lead to full servers in 6 months time. No one wants to play on a dead server and no ones wants to play on servers that may be merged, they are trying to mitigate those circumstances.
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Others have already said it but
a) Naming classic a huge success is basically an admission that BFA is terrible.
b) Blizzard have gotten so use to people playing their recent releases / patches for a few weeks / months then quitting.
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its funny to me reading anyone being concerned with memes. when you come, you come legit or not at all. right ladies?
Don’t worry they will find a way to make it look good on their quarterly meetings.
They hired a lawyer as their top dev for a reason!
That’s a good thing. As long as the company stays afloat, so I can play classic. They can be as delusional as they want in regard to BFA or mobile games that no one wants.
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It will interesting how Ion decides to parse those metrics as it compares to the retail version.
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They will just turn a blind eye to Classic player numbers since active subs are needed to play it. Therefore everyone who is returning to play Classic will be counted as people playing retail. Anything Ion does in retail is now deemed acceptable by the bean counters/shareholders since sub counts will have dramatically increased. Furthermore, all his metrics will be horribly skewed in favor of whatever decisions he makes from here on out.
I hate to say it, but we just became job security for him 
When they see a jump they will not say it was because people came back for classic.
I get visions from time to time which have come true everytime. I allready saw a vision of Blizzard unable to handle 3.4 million logins for vanilla and all hell breaking loose in their office. Posted it to them months ago on wow facebook page. But Illidan says they are NOT prepared for whats coming. Million + account sub renewals come launch. Their realms are allready full NOW. Imagine when million peeps renew subs on launch!
Before you criticize me, give me 2 weeks for events to prove what I said.
Because the delusional masses that flood these forums with nonsense havent a clue .
Last 2 expansions were flawless , WoD was only a disaster because of design if they hadnt funneled every single person doing start quests into 2 tiny zones it would also have been fine.
They somehow are still in 2004 and believe servers will not function its hillarious
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I think honestly they were being overly cautious, to the point where it started to become a legitimate concern they weren’t actually prepared. There is going to be an even larger spike in playerbase than just reserving names when the game is actually released. I am still concerned Blizzard isn’t fully grasping what is about to happen, but they seem to be ok with releasing new servers.
They just recently started to drop Classic add spots on Facebook. As long as they continue to add more servers, perhaps locking the ones that are full they can avoid
Did you not listen to their earnings call? They gave proper credence to classic for part of their quarterly earnings being up last quarter in combination with retail.
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