Hmmmm that's really surprising, thought it was April fools or some joke for a few secs. They probably saw EQ Next and thought ruh roh... Wonder what on earth their next mmo will be now!?

I just don't agree with this at all. As I mentioned in an earlier post, there's user ran shards which get pretty damn close. They don't need to support it to any real extent, just offer people the chance to use such a server. Make them aware that they're on their own while playing them, maybe offer a lower monthly sub for people only wanting to play on those servers. The costs would be minimal, and out weighed by even a short term increase in subs. I tend to see comments about server costs and the like also. Server costs have been proven to be miniscule on more than one occasion, a tiny portion of the monthly fee goes toward them. They've reasons for not wanting to set up older servers, but few of them are valid.

Vanilla (+TBC at most) would be my prefered server too. But lets be realistic here. There is no single reason why Vanilla is impossible. I mean you can argue against some or even most of them, but It's really THE WALL of NO