this just means that when you buy subscription, you will also get TBC playtime. but TBC access still costs 40 euro separately. i don’t know why it is so hard to understand for you. you never played TBC and now try to explain me that TBC doesn’t cost? ridicilous.
ummm, I played TBC and didn’t pay a penny for it, as it was included in my Retail Sub. I understand there were other options which included a mount, but to just play TBC was totally free if you were also on retail.
It didn’t. Can’t explain where you are getting your info from, but I played Classic and then transferred my character from Classic to TBC, and it didn’t cost me anything at all, because I am also playing Retail.
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I played TBC 12 years ago after I payed for it. No need to pay again:
World of Warcraft®: Burning Crusade Classic™ - World of Warcraft Classic | Battle.net Shop
Maybe you should contact Blizzard for a refund because you bought the game a second time…
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Classic wasn’t free - you had to have an active sub to play it.
That’s not for access to the server - thats to get access to the boost and some other bonuses (and some of those are also added to retail).
So no - TBC is still part of your sub, just like Classic was. Is it free? Not really, since you require a sub for it.
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i thought the dark portal pass was necessery, without which you couldn’t play at first. i guess i’m mistaken. sorry about that, but i still paid 65 euro for that game thinking it would stay like classic. thinking i could clone my char from tbc to wotlk like from classic to tbc.
It’s not hatred you’re smelling. We keep telling you you need to change your shirt and socks.
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Yes, this is correct.
People are wrong on two counts in this thread. One certainly isn’t required to pay that upfront box-like fee, but you do need to pay a sub to access it. It ain’t free.
It does seem ridiculous if it’s true. It seems hard to believe they’d do that, rather than doing exactly what they did with original Classic. Just leave a few servers open, because people will go back eventually.
yes! exactly. i even like the idea of having a char on every expansion. i mean it still costs a sub, so it shouldn’t be trouble for blizzard.
Problem you have with this idea is that it does cost money to maintain these servers, and seeing as Classic and TBC still had PVE and PvP along with RP servers, its a minimum of three servers per expansion. Doubt that would work out very cost effective in the long run.
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But aren’t they bursting with activity, chock full with a constant stream of players clogging up the bandwidth? 
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ummmm no they aren’t
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they cost a sub. you still pay a sub and they brought 2 cost versions of TBC, the dark portal pass for 40 euro and the deluxe edition for 65 euro. and no, maintaining some servers doesn’t cost much. that’s blizzard we’re talking about, the richest gaming company which taxes you monthly to play a classic game.
Nevertheless, they cost to upkeep, so they will not be financially viable, especially as the population is dropping significantly.
Even more so now Wrath is coming, so less and less will be on the earlier incarnations
as far as i can see, the classic servers are very much alive. i get instant pvp invites and i wait maybe 2 minutes for alterac, which says a lot. in retail the waiting ques are worse. and of course the population drops over time… but that’s normal and totally okay. it happens in retail all the time.
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Ok mom. Will do
Need a shower as well.
Thank you
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Unless you decided to pay for some stupid boost and whatever other cosmetic nonsense, which is obviously not necessary to play the game, TBC was/is free. The only thing you need to have in order to access everything in the game is an active retail sub.
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besides from costing a monthly sub, i paid 65 euro for the deluxe edition thinking the game would stay and i could clone my character later on to wrath. instead i’m gonna lose all my tbc progress so soon already when i thought it was remastered and eternal. let’s be honest, wasn’t it their initial plan to clone our chars to the next expansions so we could stay on the desired expansion with the original char? they did it with classic and tbc, so assumed it would work the same way from tbc to wrath.
Therein lies your problem.
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I don’t hate YOU. I hate Classic stuff.
But like I said; even with that hatred, I still think shutting it down completely is stupid.
They should at least leave a minimal representation running imo. Hell maybe even a Classic Seasonal server where there’s a constant loop going on… Tbc starts - patch - patch - patch - reset.
I dunno… The only real problem is spreading out the audience. At some point none of the versions would become viable; the playerbase is just too limited.
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You can’t hold anyone accountable for not making informed decisions when spending money!