It's also the day when players must make a big decision regarding their personal character's characters: to either advance the character into level up to Burning Crusade and all the amazing "new" content it comes with buy WoTLK Gold, or to keep their character within what Blizzard has now dubbed the "Classic Era", i.e. the version of WoW Classic players were playing to now. When they log in for the first time following a pre-patch players will be prompted to decide whether to keep their character on their current server it will be automatically upgraded to the Burning Crusade, or to move their character at no cost to a WoW Classic-exclusive server. Users aren't able to login with their character until a choice on the version of the game they want to play is taken.

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There is, naturally the possibility of having characters from both versions the game, but at a price. Blizzard has launched an option to clone characters (previously 35 dollars, but has been down to $15 following an protests) so players can have two versions of the same character.

The Burning Crusade Classic pre-patch period is shorter than most gamers were expecting. Blizzard has announced during its BlizzConline event earlier this year that players will have the chance to level up their characters, specifically the brand new Blood Elf and Draenei characters before the official launch of the expansion.

Most players assumed this was going to be a four-week pre-patch, as is often the case with pre-patch's for WoW's many expansions throughout its history. However, it appears that the Burning Crusade Classic pre-patch will only last for two weeks, irking more than some players who believe they'll never find the 100+ hours it takes to reach level 60 in the two-week time frame cheap WoW WoTLK Classic Gold. The players can continue to level once the expansion arrives on June 1 but they'll start much later than those who are already level 60 and ready to go.