the only thing i can say is that they need a place to test things.
I love classic , i really don't want tbc, (I wouldnt get peeved if they did go with TBC) i mean people asked for classic experience, they got some right some wrong CRBGs and sharding was bad idea but its done now, the style, the feel, the grind , adding classic + has such huge potential over TBC, it would just split the playerbase again. Just got to stick to theme and spirit that is classic.
They're probably going to test AQ war event. And I hope they stress test the crap out of it because back then it crashed the Kalimdor world server to the ground, baby.
This is literally the most grounded take on this subject.It should be the default position, common sense really.A team of engineers built a Classic "Emulator" so to speak using the modern battle.net database and client assets.The success of Classic is the perseverance of the original core design despite edge imperfections.That core game-play design no longer exists, nor do the teams that realized it and the corporate environment that enabled it.Asking Activision Blizzard to expand on it is plucking your eyes out with your own hands.In an ideal world, Classic gets the seasonal treatment like Mysticalos suggested. - Regional, language and server-type realms stay at an end of life state for as long as there is a community left to warrant keeping the lights on. These might get the realm merge treatment a couple years down the road.- New Realms for Classic, BC and or Wrath (if Blizzard opts to revive the classic trilogy) open according to demand.- A one-way copy (with sensible restrictions to gold carry over) for L58+ characters to BC (ideally free, but I wouldn't overly begrudge them monetizing that, so long as you can only copy a character that could pass the Dark Portal over and the option to level from scratch is also there)
So how does one get into the Classic PTR? I use both the beta launcher on one computer and the production launcher on another and don't see it as a selection on either.