Originally Posted by
Kralljin
I don't think the maintenance costs are that low to keep a separate MMO running, sure, they could have done it *if* they wanted to, going to the extreme to completely dismiss the reasoning and call them lazy is silly.
I can't blame a for profit organization when they decide to not pursue a project that
(1) can turn into a bottomless hole as far as maintenance is concerned
(2) potentially yields little return
A decade later, they found a solution for (1), hence Classic happened.
Your definition cannot exist, because how is a TBC character supposed to return to a Classic server?
If you want to come with a definition for something in that context, it at least it should able to exist.
And that reasoning also completely ignores that anybody that's not choosing to use the character boost will still go through Classic content.