I've thought about making a thread on this or cata classic so thanks cleatuss lol
This is honestly kind of hard to take a side on. On one hand I cant see them ever getting rid of Classic Era (vanilla) There's a surprising amount of people playing it... it's probably a hefty number of subs.
On the other hand the realm of thinking that Era isn't forever and they've gotta add something to it in order to keep people interested/coming back. They've done a good job of that with the PVP ranking changes, boons, etc. Basic QoL things that sucked that we didn't realize sucked about the game until now.
However a whole other expansion/timeline? With Hardcore that just came out, who knows how long that hype will last coughImLevel21BTWcough, an assumed fresh Season of "something" coming and also assumed cata classic... we would have:
Hardcore, season of X, Era (with possible expansion), Cata, and Retail that are all living and must be maintained.
My opinion is that hardcore IS the current "season" so I don't think we'll have a new one until this hype dies. With Era being the ending place for your hardcore characters once they die is also telling that Era isn't really going anywhere, expansion or not.
Enough rambling... thoughts on "leak"
>Classic+ cool idea
>$50? kinda doubt it.
>I like the storyline, no dark portal, we stay in the "old world" no flying mounts....
>I don't understand what they mean about reuse assets from bc/wrath/cata to maintain visual aspect of classic... that doesn't make sense to me if you used assets from those xpacs it would NOT feel like classic...
>fuck a store mount.
>Not super hype on an increased level cap but if they adjusted leveling %'s it would be cool
>agreed on the zones that are unvisitable/non existant
>high elves and ogres? X to doubt.
>cool raid idea, no idea why but whatever not really one for LoRe anyway.
>cata classic has nothing to do with this... why is this included lol
I don't think its a genuine leak but its cool to imagine! I opened up turtle wow the other day to see what iterations on classic would feel like and I could see blizz doing something like this however I don't think any of what was speculated is actually "leaked"
holy shit that's the most I've typed on here in months.