The thing is there are just too many people giving their opinions here who just don't have a clue simply b/c they are not familiar with the Nostalrius community.
If you were familiar with the Nostalrius raiding community you would know that most of those that played Nostalrius were in their 30's on average and if you were more intimately familiar with Nostalrius Raid Guilds you'd know that there are also many people in their 40's.
For all of the above, money is not an issue and I can tell you that 9/10 of my own 40 man Raid Guild will return to play WoW Classic, provided of course that WoW Classic is not nerfed with "QoL" additions.
There is a rivalry between Nostalrius guilds and this rivalry is set to continue in WoW Classic where whole Nostalrius guilds will be joining to compete against each other in Raiding progression and server dominance.
OT, because I am an old poster here on this board and because I followed this board's Nostalrius Megathread, I can tell you that extremely few Retailers had any interest at all in WoW Vanilla. If you searcj for that thread, which can be found belowOriginally Posted by OP
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...ion-Megathread
... you are gonna see in the Megathread yours truly and a handful of other pro-Vanilla posters getting attacked and shouted down by an overwhelming majority of angry Retailers and trolls who claim -in short terms- that Vanilla and TBC were vastly inferior to modern WoW and that nobody except a fringe minority wants to play Vanilla.
The only Retailer poster who admitted that they wanted to play Vanilla while also playing Retail was Elecybubb, just one person.
It is for that reason that I believe that all these cries for QoL changes to WOW Vanilla are fake and in most cases plain trolling and that b/c the Retail community historically have never -on this board as well as in the Official Forums- admitted to wanting to play Vanilla or ever asked for Vanilla back.