Drain wrote:"Pristine" servers was, what they were hoping anyway, to be an easy effortless lazy solution to this problem, where they pretend to give you what you want, while knowing they're doing nothing of the sort. They were trying to throw you a bone for damage control, and would probably have hosted them too. The problem is that it's not what anyone wanted, and they knew it beforehand, or certainly should have.
We don't want retail servers with a few things removed. It's too little too late for that. We want older versions entirely. Removing heirlooms and DF is something they could have done back during Wrath when the game was still in a salvagable state, but they refused to do so for years and years, actually going full speed ahead to make it worse, running the game further into the ground. Cata took everything bad about Wrath, and made it worse, when it should have done the opposite, and certainly could have.
Even if they hosted "Pristine" servers, there'd basically be no reason to play on them. You'd still be overly OP leveling because of modern talent trees and dumbed down Cata content. You'd still level past the endgame you want to play. You'd still end up at the same retail end game you don't want to play. This is why it does nothing of the sort, for players wanting older versions of the game. I don't want modern day pick A B or C "talent trees"(can they even be called that now?). I want Classic, BC, or Wrath talent trees. You know, actual talent trees. I suspect this is a big reason for everyone.
Well written, and exactly what i and probably most others think
+1
