Originally Posted by
Coffeh
Combination. They'll let players transfer or copy. They'll also have some fresh TBC servers where everyone starts at level 1.
I do believe they have to maintain some pre-TBC servers. Otherwise...what was the point of Classic? To replace Vanilla yet again? What we don't know is if it'll be up to the players to transfer to those servers, and existing servers progress to TBC. Or the other way around. Probably the first, since I think some sort of consolidation of the Classic playerbase is necessary since so many players will bail on pre-TBC servers.