Originally Posted by
Kralljin
You are comparing apples and oranges.
The sub price on Retail is justified because they also develop new content, Classic (and by extension TBC) does not receive newly developed content, once they get it running, they'll just hit a button whenever they feel like they should release the next content phase.
Hence, the full sub price for solely playing Classic / TBC (an option that did not exist for 15 years btw.) is a poor deal for the customer.
Yeah, that sums up your mindset quite well - "because i don't see them, means they don't exist".
But hey, type in /who rogue Blackrock depths or /who mage Stratholme on some decently populated classic servers, you might now suddenly see some bots.
Putting aside that the money they generate, which will inevitably enter the economy, will affect you.