On September 28, 2026, a fan forum hosted a discussion about the developers' promise to call the launch of World of Warcraft: Forever 'legendary.' Players recalled that New World and Warcraft 3: Reforged were once described in the same words, and they compared the upcoming release with what is currently happening on classic servers.

On September 28, 2026, a fan forum hosted a discussion about the developers' promise to call the launch of World of Warcraft: Forever 'legendary.' Players recalled that New World and Warcraft 3: Reforged were once described in the same words, and they compared the upcoming release with what is currently happening on classic servers.

The main topics of the debate:

• The decline of 'vanilla': one participant jokes that 'that vanilla' now sits with just three people, while the mass online is over at 'Anniversary' — where, in his words, there were more than 260,000 log entries, and since the start of the Forever beta that number has roughly halved.
• A carbon copy of New World: another player draws a parallel with New World — that also launched 'legendarily' with a million players online, and a couple of years later faded. In his words, even if Forever repeats that path and gives up ground in five to seven years, there will still be no downside for those who weren't planning to go there in the first place.
• Skepticism about 'legendary': a third compares expectations to Warcraft 3: Reforged — its launch was also billed as a historic event, but turned out to be a failure.
• The spirit of vanilla and flying: the discussion dredges up the old dispute about flying mounts and the 'true vanilla' crowd who believe their arrival narrows the world; the others counter that this is already an outdated position.