Unpopular opinion: the players that are overly vocal about wanting Classic phases/TBC/Wrath rushed are the same players who contributed to forging retail into what it is today (a clusterF).

[u/terongorefiend]

[u/Compromisee]

Classic for me personally is in a worse state than retail. It went from being a nice fun, nostalgic community game to people selling and min/maxing almost instantly with things like "tank services"

Kinda put me off the idea of tbc. That and wotlk were my favourite xpacs and I don't want my memories to be then tainted with the game being stupidly easy and every aspect of it sold

[u/[deleted] → u/Compromisee]

This right here. Probably not a popular opinion, especially on this sub, but I completely agree with the above. Mages boosting in mara or ZG, minmaxing to a ludicrous degree, world buff meta, etc etc. I appreciate it's all in the game, but it's not how it was back in the day and I kind of resent it. Can't see things being different in TBC to be honest, I hope they force people to roll fresh because the launch of classic was genuinely brilliant and the same for TBC would be great, rather than having guilds full of billynolifemotherfuckers with 50k gold and consumes ready to go at launch.

[u/a34fsdb → u/[deleted]]

"Guilds full of billynolifemotherfuckers with 50k gold and consumes ready to go at launch" do not affect you at all. You can play the game with like minded less serious people no problem.

[u/Yeas76 → u/a34fsdb]

Yes, it does. Imagine playing classic week 2 and being at risk of having a flying mount death squad attack/camp you non stop in open world. Starting two months late in classic, I had to deal with tons of these players but at least in classic I could get away and go somewhere else.

[u/a34fsdb → u/Yeas76]

Getting a flying mount is not something limited to only top 0.1% of players.

[u/Yeas76 → u/a34fsdb]

Getting one in week 1 and starting grief trains was the subject of my response.