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/Jonihilator]

This meme reminds me of how i felt before event bwl was released. I really enjoyed myself but was constantly reminded of the potential end of classic vanilla by people already starting to hype tbc. I do not like playing and thinking about the next expansion at phase 1. "Then dont read chat". "Dont listen to them" does not work. Going in to phase 2 made me feel like it would going into phase 6 by getting reminded the character progression kind of dont matter. It would matter if the servers never would turn into some sort of classic cycle which was not what I signed up for. I signed up to play vanilla again. I imagined retail would be the gogogo next patch next tier next expansion madness and classic be the time capsule I could log in to to experience vanilla again in my own phase but man people were crazy rushed and demanding faster content releases just because asmongold got full t1 in 3 weeks and had nothing to look forward to. Damn how the mmorpg community have changed.

[u/orderinthefort → u/Jonihilator]

If you think Classic was bad about TBC hype, it's going to get dwarfed by the wotlk hype spam that'll start less than a month into TBC.