If The Cataclysm Revamp Never Happened...

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Cataclysm did change alot of zones, but other than that, the game has been changing gradually for many years, and even if cata hadnt changed the zones, there would still be almost as many, if not as many, requests for vanilla realms.

[Macaquerie]

Including the revamped Naxx with the WotLK launch set the precedent for Blizzard to remove content from the game. If I'm not mistaken, BC pretty much left all the old world content alone and retained the same 1-60 experience, with all of the abilities and talents being tacked on to the existing trees, though I suppose you could have started using the 41 pt talents at level 50. However, I don't really remember anyone going out of their way to do Vanilla stuff during BC, you still needed a decent size group to clear it and because transmog was still a ways off there was little reason to bother with it. Also, a lot of the content required grinding rep which was pretty much impossible in BC because old world rep gains were penalized at 70.