It’s a big project, which is why Blizzard isn’t committing to a deadline and keeping the specifics close to the chest. 'We’re going to hire people specifically for this job, and we’re going to staff it with people who are interested in bringing back Classic WoW in the best, most authentic way,' Brack says. That’s great news for players who don’t care about revisiting the past but are much more interested in Warcraft’s future. This endeavour is being undertaken by an entirely separate team at Blizzard from the one working on World of Warcraft and its next expansion. There’s a lot of desire on part of the community that this is something that they don’t want.' 'One of the tenets of Classic WoW is none of the cross-server realms and different sharding options that we have available to us today. There’s still a lot of questions about how the team will tackle it, but Brack says they’re committed to recreating an authentic Vanilla World of Warcraft experience. There won’t be cross-realm servers or Looking For Raid and Dungeon Finder automatic party matchmaking. Allen Brackīrack is clear that using modern server architecture doesn’t mean that these Classic servers will have the same features that current World of Warcraft does. It’s a larger endeavor than people might imagine, but that we’re committed to doing it and we’re excited. But now we think we have a way to have the old WoW version work on the modern infrastructure and feel really good.'

It’s those core fundamental pieces, and running two MMOs of that size is a daunting problem. 'The infrastructure is how we spin up instances and continents, how the database works. 'We think we have a way to run the Classic servers on the modern technical infrastructure,' Brack says.

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