EDIT: folks, the thread is 10 pages long, maybe you could read past the OP? It's been an active, exciting, fun thread! There's lots of great discussion and even better, plenty of people who have accused myself and others of not being actual, original Cata players. I'd like to go ahead and squash that now (for me at least) with this bit I just wrote in a comment on page 10:
Anyway, back to your originally scheduled original post:You'd think these people could take one look at my join date to MMO-C, a website that's historically been 98% WoW and figure out that I've at least been in the game since WotLK - I can say I happily joined in mid-TBC, Jan 2008. Then I lurked on MMO-C for some time in 2009 before finally creating an account. People don't like considering the fact that the expansion that STARTED with the highest number of subs (i.e. really those were Wrath holdover, assuming Cata was going to be just as good, because at that point WoW had never had a bad expansion before, crazy thought) actually then lost a substantial amount of subs and, shock, God forbid some of those people are here among us RIGHT. NOW.
The original reason most ever asked for "classic/Vanilla" realms, was because we lost the old zones and, at least in the case of early Wrath and prior, less LFD/LFR implementation/ no LFR.
Unless they do something substantial, I really personally don't see the reason for Cata Classic, though I guess ultimately it can be a way for people to live/relive Cataclysm, if they so please, but let's be real, Cata was the start of the overall downfall.
I can't help but say I'd love a second chance to play MoP during the expansion, as there was a lot of fun during it, but I missed most of it.
How are you all hoping Blizzard treats Cata "in a classic way"?