If you believe that Blizzard’s Classic WoW should have any of the later expansion accommodations,

amenities, or features, you fail to understand that Classic WoW isn’t for you.

Blizzard is attempting to (or should be anyway) appeal to a very, very, very specific and niche demographic of people, and that just means you aren’t within that demographic.

The whole point of this, if you wish to be cynical, is ideally make them money or, at the very least, save them money. Furthermore, while I am absolutely sure they are pretty into the idea of it, this also isn’t just them providing a long requested trip through history – this is also their attempt to hobble the vast majority of private servers by actually giving a legitimate alternative.

They saw the demand, now they look to meet it.

But they have to be careful in how they meet it. If it’s not the nearest authentic experience that people are clamoring for, then they blow their load on a terrible first impression, it likely bombs, Blizzard looks incompetent as a business (which despite their faults, they largely avoid and are a powerhouse in the industry), claims of betrayal and lost trust fly everywhere, Reddit and tumblr and twitter become awash is memes, and worst of all for Blizz: people jump ship back to probably even more private servers than ever before.

Classic servers should be appealing to every person who swears they want that 1.0 to 1.12 feeling, even though the vast majority will likely quit before level 20 and many more following when they actually do hit level 20 and realize there’s no mounts at that level in vanilla. Again, though, Classic isn’t for these passersby (myself included) – it’s for a super specific group and Blizz somehow has to hit the nail on head with it.

So, I find the conversations about “let’s add x feature from y expansion for z reason” so silly. You just proved, this project isn’t for you – and that’s okay, not every project is. And, honestly, if Blizz is successful with this project and all goes well, they should probably release a “Classic Lite” with more accommodations as a separate server for those who want something between vanilla WoW and modern WoW.

But their first focus shouldn’t be to appease the modern WoW masses who just hope to see pre-Cata Azeroth, it should be going in with a very clear goal of what the long-term players would want and expect of a Classic WoW to enjoy themselves there and live or relive the experiences.