My Classic WoW....

With the new Battle for Azeroth expansion close to release I've been trying to keep up with the changes it'll bring. None excite me. None draw me in. None have made me want to log in never mind get the expansion. I'm convinced I'll not be returning to WoW.
I got on facebook etc and asked what guildies were returning to reform the guild. I got nothing but tumbleweed. Those that have stayed in game have all moved on.

My wife has already resub'd and started back at the game. Connecting back with handful of old guildies on another realm
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So I'm surrounded by WoW in one form or another. The more I hear the more I'm reflecting on previous expansion and reminded of the initial expansion excitement followed by grind and disappointment. I'm also reminded that there will be a WoW classic release(at some stage). Still so many questions to be asked and answered about it. But my nostalgia is driving my hope that it will be the version of WoW I'll be 'happy' in.

The biggest driver in motivation for me to relive the level 60 day's is that as a character the world felt larger, more unknown and my character felt small in it. It was an adventure to quest. Not like today's characters that are god like.

Saying the world felt larger I'm reminded of the long run's up and down Darkshore to do handin's and get the next quests. The roads were busy with people doing the same. Life in action.

There was one flight path not two every 10 steps. Level 40 got the "slow" mount and 60 the "faster" version. Class quests made levelling and gaining items feel like achievements. Class trainers gave immersion. I could drone on.

Anyway it all got me thinking about it and being all nostalgic. There were downsides.
Bag space was stuffed with pets/mounts/materials and more(Keys!)
I decided to pull out the old screenshots, it wasn't all that bad was it?
The laptop I was using back in the day was a low end one, no fancy graphics card etc. So I'm surprised the screenies look halfway decent!

My first character was a druid. Looking back at the screenies I remember a lot of fond memories. It's only made my nostalgia worse. The old mods! The buffs!
The local chat LFG/LFM/LF2MDPS DM. Warlocks selling summons, mages selling portals. Players asking to be decursed, healed and buffed! The world was more alive! Networking was real; The warlock who knew a warlock that had the materials to complete the quest chain for the level 60 mount. It all seems such a a far cry from today's push button/receive bacon.
I sound like a Vanilla WoW leetist.  Maybe I am...
Hour long AV battles of strategy and endurance, a battle of will and meaning. I miss it. I miss it all!

Could Classic WoW alter the community? Divide it?

So many questions.

Blizz has a lot more to do than replicating the game software of the time. They need to bring the experience back to the players that crave this time in history. That's a tall, tall order.