We weren’t even going to do the classic track at all… which is why the first one was late. But enough people expressed interest that we decided to do it.
We were considering not doing TBC either because not that many people use the classic versions of the site… but decided at the last minute to go ahead and do it.
This time we’re going to roll the dice and say enough people will use it and have it done for launch. We’ll see if we break even or not…
As stated above, we rarely support pre-patches fully. We just didn’t have enough time to develop a pre-patch version of the TBC site and they are rarely worth the effort for how short they are and poorly balanced they are. We didn’t have access to a server to test on early enough to do it anyway, so it’s kind of a moot point.