Originally Posted by
MonsieuRoberts
I think you're pretty naive if you think they're only targeting people on private servers.
A tougher, more focused, more community-oriented and more straightforward MMO has a lot wider appeal than just people on Nostralius. There's space in that demographic for additions and changes like being able to play whatever spec you want. That does not break or undermine the experience of grinding, cooperating, playing and leveling carefully, and investing great time into a single character, and even then, a single spec. You can have multiple viable specs per class and still replicate Vanilla's gameplay, atmosphere and difficulty. They're not exclusive of one another.
I really think you and others are misguided if you truly believe you're going to get a carbon copy of 1.12. 2017's Activision-Blizzard is not a company that alienates customers willfully because "that's how the game was nearly 15 years ago."
This obsession of only accepting an exact 1:1 copy of 2006's 1.12 is mind-boggling to me.