Requesting Lordaeron Info

Hello I'm an ol Warmane player, I used to play in this community (Deathwing Server) and now I'm looking for a retail wow enviroment after some reads I saw Lordaeron is x1 and the comments I see are positive but I'd lik to know few more things before spending 3 days (with no rest) playing c:

-Is it 100% retail? I'm not used to this new website so, does this servre have a custom webshop? also I don't see any Vote system, but I'm reading the new system by Achivements or something, can I buy something with this?

-Also I'm looking at news that ICC is going to be released or sometihing, is this a progressive realm?

-Is the 5k population real?

I will appreciate your time an effort by reading this and answering, Regards

@ #1. Not completely. Currently, we're "emulating" the Trial of the Crusader patch on 3.3.5a - which means that is the current available content, but how talents, spells and etc. work are based on 3.3.5a. Additionally, the dungeon finder is disabled, which is technically blizz-like until Icecrown Citadel's release, but we're not sure if we want to release it. And lastly, we have buffed the difficulty of most WotLK bosses (more HP and damage) so they pose a more proper challenge to players, seeing as how it is 6-7 year old content. Other than those things mentioned, it is very very close to how it was like on Blizzard. Some minor bugs here and there, but nothing very big.

@ #2. Yes. I referred to this in #1. Currently, the highest available raid is Trial of the Crusader. We will probably release Icecrown Citadel sometime in Q1 of 2017.

@ #3. Yes, it's real. But I'm a staff member, and I'm sure you've heard plenty of stories about "fake population" from other sources, so I would encourage you to log onto the realm and check for yourself. Or perhaps gather the opinions of players who actually play on the realm. Either way, up to you. You don't have to believe me if you don't want to, but there's no point for me to lie about it.

I had forgotten to address your mentioning of the "vote points". Lordaeron does not have any point-shop. There isn't any "custom webshop" either. You cannot donate for items on Lordaeron either.