[Tyhm]

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that it's a simple decision. Shutting down Classic for a month or three while we manually convert everything is not acceptable, though it's been suggested. Ignoring Classic is likewise unacceptable. The conversion has to be quick and decisive, and as much automated as possible. Six THOUSAND levels, Kai. If Com and I each did an average 30 levels by hand a day, that's still 100 days. Of course we can't just cut it up into 200 packs of 30 and pass them around for the players to convert, do I even have to say what a headache it'd be to make sure they weren't cheating? I mean, just the thought of manually editing every NPC on the Graal map, in the Pyramid, in CC, in Nostalgia, every baddy in every quest ever not-removed, every player house...it's ridiculous, a logistic impossibility. Yes, Classic should upgrade rather than ask for more clientside upgrades, but we never decided "Hey, let's stay Clientside, what the hell." Intention implies a choice. You can no more fault Classic for not POOF becoming Serverside than you can fault a snail for not POOF becoming a butterfly!