For real.

"I'm sure it would be a rather large jump in server storage space needed to give everyone a massive amount of extra characters."

Like Blizzard does not have the funds to buy extra hard drives.

This is absolutely horrible news! I've got a 70 of every class, and quite a few of them are geared. So I have to delete one? Dump what...100+ hours of work, just to experience the new class? I'm being penalized because I liked this game enough to play every class to 70 and raid with a handful of them even? And don't give me the "roll on another server" crap - everyone has a server they play on where all their friends are on, rolling on another server doesn't seem like an option. Gah, all because they don't want to add a single freaking slot.

Then buy another friggin' account. You clearly have the time/money to do so.

There was an interview once with Jeff K I believe that had mentioned that they have tossed around the idea of an Arch Druid but that means NOTHING because the only official Hero class released is the Death Knight.

I believe multiple hero classes were originally talked about before WoW even came out, and that their disappearance from the original game was a source of some contention. I don't know if they ever got specific about their plans, though.

Actually the concept of hero classes has be brought up by Blizzard long time ago, probably before the first release, but it was scraped and then brought back to life.

There are enough character slots even with the new death knight unless you have any twinks. I have 9 lvl 70s (1 of each class) on my alliance server and all i would be replacing is my bank toon. but if i had a twink i probably wouldn't like having to delete or move him to make room for the new class.

As for more classes, if they do actually add more I am sure they will add more slots. they would atleast make room for one of each class.

You *could* just decide to not delete any...

and not make a death knight...

Your original thought is basically like cutting off your face to spite your nose.

(I know the phrase was reversed BTW. It fits the scenario better.)

omg dude!! you should get out more, I though I was an altoholic with 4 70s.
BTW there was an old post in a wowfan site where all the Hero classes (supposedly) incoming were posted, the DK was among the list, along with the archdruid, demon hunter, etc. It was nothing official, but I think it is a good prediction.
But Daniel, didn't say blizzard that this is going to be the last expansion? and the rest is coming in patches?

That is what I was thinking of. But doesn't that still mean the same thing? Maybe I'm missing the point of both the article and the forum post, but It seems to me that people are worried with all their alts gilling thier max character slots, they are not going to be able to have a Death Knight, but with Blizzard saying you wont have to "Sacrifice" a character to make one, isn't it just an argument with no problem?

Maybe I'm totally just not reading right today.....

You only have to "sac" an alt if you are already at max toons per realm. People were concerned by rumors that that they'd have to "convert" a toon into a DK. Personally, my stable is split between 3 servers, so I'm good.

The "sacrifice" in question here isn't in relation to deleting an existing character to free up a character slot, but rather in having to "transform" the existing character to get your Death Knight. In other words, in the hypothetical sacrifice scenario, you'd be permanently changing the class of your existing character to Death Knight, as opposed to simply creating a new character as a Death Knight.