They created Classic to combat private servers, but I don’t get it.
What’s the point if the Classic expansion changes every two years?
The point of playing on a private server was that you were “stuck” in that expansion forever. What’s the appeal of joining MoP Classic whilst knowing that we’re eventually heading back to awful expansions like Legion and BFA once again?
I think there are also Era realms that are stuck forever in expansion Y. So people can either experience the expansion progression (again) or stay stuck in the expansion of their choice.
Eventually all those servers die out, so Blizzard has to refresh it to get in a crowd again for the money. As long as classic makes money, they will keep crapping out servers and redo it all again. Pretty sure were on vanilla classic ++ at the moment.
For some people classic is a way to experience expansions they did not play
They’re surely not planning to be stuck there for an eternity
I’m not sure if classic will even transition to wod after MoP though
Did people even enjoy that expansion?
It made quit the game at the time, till late BFA and since then i’ve been on and off.
If they don’t announce that tbc anniversary will be getting era servers I’m definitely going back to private servers.
I’ve no interest in speeded up expansion tourism. Again.
I want to play tbc and only tbc.
For myself, I’m picking up classic for the first time. I played vanilla, TBC, Wrath and Cata when they were new and I have no rose-tinted glasses when thinking back on them. They were ok, but I’ve moved on.
I rather foolishly stepped out for MoP, and have regretted it since, so I’m taking the chance to play it now before it disappears for another 20 years.
And tbh I’m really hoping they stop it there and don’t move forward. I can’t imagine anyone wanting WoD classic. Legion maybe, but its gameplay is closer to modern than it is to vanilla, and it’s not what the classic crowd want. There’s probably a place for a full on Legion repeat that isn’t remix, but it’s not “classic”.
I’m hoping they will make long term support versions of every expansion from vanilla-MoP such that players can freely pick where they want to be. It should be possible to spin up a new realm on each expansion every couple of years, let it cycle through, then merge it into the LTS server at the end. That way whatever it is you like, you can always find a server that is part way through what you want to do; or just join the mature LTS one.
I don’t understand much of anything.
The funniest thing about classic is that its eventually gonna catch up with retail, as retail expansions are 2 years and classic are 1 year.
It is my favourite expansion. It’s the only Classic I’d play, actually.
It had the most fun design for both Windwalker & Mistweaver.
Simple for me was getting and experiencing things i had not the possibility to do at the time.
In classic i managed to raid for almost all content (i did not do naxx40 due of focusing on Shadowlands release, big mistake)
In TBC i cleared all content plus getting Champion of the naruu/hand of A’dal and the amano War bear.
In Wotlk my main reason was getting the plagued and black proto drake.
Now for MoP I will just keep farming gold to get a spot as a buyer in GDK and getting the CE from the various raids.
Another object was setting up gold goals from one expansion to another.
In classic i managed to buy my epic mount and going into TBC with another 1k. That alone for me gave me a lot of satisfaction, when Vanilla was curruent in retail i was so bad that at the end i bought an account just to have a lv60 char with the epic mount. 
The point of playing on a private server was not that you were stuck forever, that was just how it was.
The point of private servers was that they were free, chaotic and ridiculously easy.
The first time I ever played Wow I went around and asked people for gold, then I bought both Illidan’s weapons, lol.
What you describe isn’t true for Blizzlike prívate servers which aimed to replicate the retail experience.
besides of Wotlk, private servers where always a seasonal thing, and when naxx came out people wanted the “fresh” experience
and also mop is a “fresh” thing, new content, everyone starting from new with pre raid bis gear/ blue honor gear/ game feels different, different meta etc
thats why people enjoy/wanted it i guess
the servers would be empty if not
You realise the anniversary server will only be tbc for like a year at best right?
Yup. That’s why I said I want era servers. If they don’t add those I’m not gonna bother.
Id personally want more forever servers, like tbc and even legion it is impossible to motivate to play in this seasonal idea of expansions always changing
Fair. People seemed upset when bc transitioned to wrath ao maybe they will
There isn’t one. Blizzard have completely lost the plot.
The whole point of Classic was to undo the fact that the game changed design direction and going back to the original design principles.
It could then be expanded by adding more content within that framework.
Just releasing worse versions of all the expansions in order is completely insane, because all it does is have us relive all the bad things that happened.
There’s some fun to be had in some of them to be sure, but now we’re in MoP, which is entirely playable on retail and shares mot of its design principles with retail as well.
But the truth is that most don’t understand WoW Classic. They understand they enjoy it, but they haven’t got the faintest clue why or how one might copy it, which is why WoW clones were such a meme.
WoW Classic is special, and you can only copy it if old Blizzard tells you how to do it… which they have now.
Time to get to work.
PS: What’s important to note is that it isn’t the old content that makes vanilla special. Adding Outland or Northrend does not ruin vanilla, but tBC’s level cap increase and several other design changes such as flying would. Can you add Outland to vanilla without tBC’ing it? Absolutely!
i dont understand why should anyone play something that came out 15 years ago as an online game.
i mean we have modern wow why should we waste money -time- energy on classic?
instead Focusing on the retail and trying to fix the problems and make it better in anyway possible.