Then it wouldn't be classic.....
Everyone seems to voice wanting a CoP era classic server and maybe include TAU with none of today's QoL enhancements and the ability to spend time doing content rather than spending 45 minutes waiting for the replacement tank to get to Kazham and the party disbanding while tank is on the way. I just cannot see how a server that is less player friendly would be worth the time for the Devs to work on at the expense of keeping the game alive and adding content for everyone to do.
They can't afford to do classic builds (not that there is much demand anyway). It's all hands on deck to update the main game, most of their time goes into the updates planned for the 20th.
Then it's not classic. It will never be the same as it once was. Why should they spend resources to remove things from the game when they can add instead? You can already play a style that could be considered classic, but nobody does. People cannot even agree on what classic would mean.
WHM taking the time and effort, to quest their Teleport scrolls, and then being able to Teleport the party, made them a unique part of the team. Now almost entirely useless thanks to HP/SG warps, and mounts.
The connections made, when asking for a Teleport. You met a new person. You chatted. It felt nice.
This is a small example of Lost Culture. You can't pick-and-choose with Culture.
The new game lacks those bonds of friendship and reliance, bonds which were forged in adversity. I describe the new game as basically solo-player. I think that is tragic.
Literally this. Probably why private servers are held on such a high pedestal for some. They represent that connection that community, but I doubt the server pops make that a reality. It seems almost like they're virtue signalling when they say they're on a private server.
Personally I like where the game has gone and how the community has changed. Fawning over the past, trying to emulate it does not make sense to me. There is still community it just operates differently now.
But that's just my hot take
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