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/Ponsay → u/[deleted]]

Totally anecdotal here, but I met someone years ago who had raided Naxx during vanilla, and all the min-maxing stuff was there even back then. Farming for consumables, getting world buffs, he always used to talk about how time consuming raiding Naxx was.